Back in the days when I’d go clubbing, I tended to favour the kind of venues that were essentially dark, cavernous basements - and make...

Thirty three years after I ceased to be one myself there is once again a teenager in the house. My teenager. And like all parents left...

‘Zoom, zoom, zoom….we’re going to the moon’. Well, not quite, just back to the office - tentatively, anyway - but after 14 months of...

Damian Lewis can dance. I mean as in seriously, seriously move. I know this because I met him at a friend’s house party in the early...

So the covid anniversaries are under way: a national day last Tuesday marking a year since the first UK lockdown and 127,000 plus more...

Maybe it’s my star sign but I found a tucked away piece in The Sunday Times last weekend about the increasingly popular trend for cow...

Dare I say it? Dare I...anticipate it? Dare I imagine it might be, for good..? Schools reopen this week after an at times seemingly...

He’s unlikely to remember it but Iain Duncan Smith once fell on me on the tube. Not an arse-over-elbow nosedive type fall - more a clumsy...

I had hoped given the hours invested in French language television during accumulated lockdowns that I might have acquired by osmosis...

Remember those old Love is….cartoons? The sketched boy/girl couple - naked, moon-faced and coy above a caption that attempted to define...

Notice how since we all started wearing masks no-one’s been moaning about the burka? Just saying. How’re we managing, anyway? With...

“You’re not going to do what you did last Friday are you?” asked my 11-year-old son on the eve of yet another groundhog weekend whose...

If there’s at least a single certainty 2021 holds for me it’s that it will involve looking for a job. Of the near million redundancies...

Notice how the memes have dried up? The good ones. The funny ones. The ones that ricocheted like pinballs round whatsapp in the early...

I am on the doorstep of 50. Literally. Tomorrow’s my 50th birthday. Here it almost is, and here I very much am. In lock-down. I have...