Modern manners
Lust begins at 50
Have I become a dirty old man?
It has to stop?
Upspeak can damage your career prospects
A mystery in the middle lane
I am convinced that when I took my driving test in 1983 I was asked by the examiner, ‘What lane…
Dear Mary
Q. Over New Year I stayed with a man who combines being a generous and exciting host with a punctilious…
Dear Mary
Q. I gave a copy of Dan Russel the Fox by Somerville and Ross to a couple I know to be…
Stop that cab!
It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers
America’s war on sleep
The relentless rise of ‘you snooze, you lose’
Dear Mary
Q. I have a tattoo the length of my forearm and am worried it will alienate my new boyfriend’s parents…
Mobile phones with a touch of tweed
I wouldn’t worry much about the future of the British economy. Because I have a simple plan to make the…
Dear Mary
Q. I have a problem with what might be called location blindness. I live in Balham, but when I arrange…
Once more, the spectre of Enoch Powell is raised to stop debate about immigration
One of the genuine seasonal pleasures to be enjoyed as 2013 slipped around the U-bend was Enoch Powell making his…
Don’t blame sugar
Obesity isn’t a matter of addiction. It’s a question of self-control
Dear Mary
Q. We had our son’s fiancée and her family to stay recently. After dinner, expecting conversation, we were shocked to…
Dear Mary
Q. I am working on becoming a member of the Chipping Norton set. Should I be pronouncing the excellent open-air…
Old friends
Facebook makes reinventing yourself at university much trickier
Dear Mary
Q. Some years ago, on holiday in Egypt, we found ourselves in the company of a couple who wanted to…
Dear Mary
Q. What to do when you are an unwilling eavesdropper in a train carriage in which people you know assume…
Dear Mary
Q. Is there a polite way of halting a wannabe novelist from reading his oeuvre aloud to an unwilling audience?…
Must we celebrate gay weddings twice?
Apparently I’ve proposed to my civil partner. He claims that on BBC Radio 2, on the Jeremy Vine show (he…
Nature vs nudists
How a little bird saved my favourite beach
Dear Mary
Q. My mainly male colleagues and I were happy to learn that an attractive young woman would be joining the…
It’s not hate that Caitlin Moran can’t stand. It’s being disagreed with
Rod Liddle 10 August 2013 9:00 am
Hell, it’s been tough, but I think I’ve pulled through. I went out this morning to buy some cigarettes and…