Dear Mary
Q. I recently made an arrangement with a flaky friend from university to go to my gym together. Half an…
Cold War collation
I know an immensely grand aristocratic lady, impeccably mannered, with a regal grace and presence, who cannot be trusted near…
Trading places
After any other US election it would cause little comment that the new president had chosen the British Prime Minister…
High life
Gstaad The snows came tumbling down just as the camel-drivers headed back to the Gulf. In fact, they never saw…
Long life
I keep finding myself singing ‘Nellie the elephant’ who, packing her trunk and saying goodbye to the circus, went off…
Long life
I keep finding myself singing ‘Nellie the elephant’ who, packing her trunk and saying goodbye to the circus, went off…
Carnage
‘This carnage stops here,’ declared the headline in the Daily Telegraph, quoting President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech. My husband tried…
Real life
The problem holding up my house move turns out to be a wiggle. Have you ever had a wiggle? It…
Would I still hate actors’ rants if they all agreed with me?
I feel a bit sorry for Piers Morgan. On Tuesday, Ewan McGregor was due to appear on the sofa with…
Would I still hate actors’ rants if they all agreed with me?
I feel a bit sorry for Piers Morgan. On Tuesday, Ewan McGregor was due to appear on the sofa with…
Vinyl madness
I was at home enjoying an online episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers when my daughter interrupted me, wanting…
Beyond words
In his inaugural speech last week, the new President Trump said, among much else, the ‘American carnage’ of poverty, ignorance…
Barometer
Nuclear near-misses It was revealed that last June an unarmed Trident missile test-fired off Florida from a British submarine headed…
Diary
Did you know that if you use the f-word while talking to a BT representative, they hang up on you?…
Australian letters
Real Invasion Day Sir: Australians will be celebrating Australia Day as people living in freedom in a beautiful and truly…
Letters
What is a university? Sir: As a former Russell Group vice chancellor, I think that Toby Young’s appeal for more universities…
Portrait of the week
Home The Supreme Court ruled by eight to three that, without an act of Parliament, the government could not effectually…
Clothes maketh the MP
Like many women watching Donald Trump’s swearing in as the 45th President of the United States of America, I held…
Stung!
Centrelink – as everyone in Australia knows – shat the bed last month, leaving the government (and particularly Christian Porter)…
Lefty laughs
‘Why doesn’t the Left do humour?’ I asked a left-wing friend. ‘Why is it only conservatives who know how to…
Wall eyed
Any impressively long wall is bound to cause us to recall the midfield dynamo and philosopher John Trewick. In 1978…
The only way is up
Michael Andrews once noted the title of an American song on a scrap of paper: ‘Up is a Nice Place…
Sloppy seconds
Danny Boyle introduced T2 Trainspotting at the screening I attended and said that, throughout filming, he’d seen the cast looking…
