Modern manners
Barometer
No sex, please Several friends of the late Sir Edward Heath asserted that he could not be guilty of sexually…
The dangerous food fad
The ‘clean eating’ revolution is more likely to make you ill than healthy
Mirror, mirror
The uglier the man, the more he demeans women
Your problems solved
Q. How can you tactfully tell someone that the large skin tag or blob they have grown in the centre…
Old boys’ network
I'm 43. Why do I still not refer to myself as a man?
Your problems solved
Q. I have learned that someone I much admired in youth is about to become single again. I only have…
Caught on the net
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
Pop psychology
The secrets of bubble-wrap and other delicious little sensations
Low life
‘I’ve lost my phone,’ yells Trev. We’re in a club. He’s come charging on to the dance floor to tell…
Your problems solved
Q. Travelling on a train recently I happened to notice two former acquaintances, sitting together and very nearly opposite me,…
North Cornwall
In a documentary filmed at the end of his life, Sir John Betjeman, who lived in the village of Trebetherick…
Champions of hypocrisy
Why sport and sham morality go so well together
Poor form
Against the customer service Q&A
Your problems solved
Q. My partner, a leading political commentator on a national newspaper, recently agreed to shave off his hair at the…
Crisis of faith
England’s churches are in deep trouble
Web of sin
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Sub-Aga saga
Lovely, gentle Isabel, just 40, makes masks. Her husband Dan, erstwhile ‘student of the Classics’ and playwright manqué, is ‘bored…
I second that emoji
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
Father’s Day
No man ever watched a £20 note flutter from an opened Father’s Day card and thought: ‘How disappointing — not enough…
Your problems solved
Q. What should I say the next time I run into a woman with whom I was at art school…
Dear Mary
Q. I felt uncomfortable during a dinner for 20 in a private house. The young man on my left had…
Your problems solved
Q. I have a friend who can be shy and inhibited. Recently, he was invited to stay on a Caribbean…
In praise of the pit bull
Last night I saw a woman dancing with a pit bull terrier. It was about 9 p.m. and her curtains…
Your problems solved
Q. As a writer I find working at home too distracting. I am a longstanding member of the London Library…
Dear Sirs and Madams
Peter Oborne 4 July 2015 9:00 am
In praise of the old-fashioned letter-writer