Modern manners
Tinder feelings
Can mobile dating apps move beyond the promise of a one-night stand?
Shrunk
America’s psychoanalysts are becoming an endangered species
The roots of the matter
British people buy £43 million worth of human hair a year. So who’s selling?
Easy virtue
Why do the right thing when you can simply say the right thing?
Fat chance
Why I am not dieting. Ever
Dear Mary
Q. I have moved from London to the centre of a historic market town, now becoming famous as a foodie…
Hell on wheels
The mobility scooter plague
The age of the Skype Dad
What happens when a divorce court accepts video calls as a substitute for visiting your children
Dear Mary
Q. For ten years, I have made a reasonable freelance income working from home. During this time my husband has…
A quiet revolution
What I discovered on a silent retreat
Your problems solved
Q. Someone I was at university with but hadn’t seen much of over the ten years since invited me to…
Cold heart of the home
Against sterile modern kitchens
Dear Mary
Q. When sending wedding invitations, does one put the full titles on the card, or can one just put, for…
A toast to Spain
Towards the chimes at midnight, a few of us left a — respectable — establishment near Leicester Square. Eight or…
Barometer
Cooking statistics Ed Miliband was photographed in a miserable kitchen, but it turned out to be only a snack preparation…
I blame the parents
If Britain has a crisis in children’s mental health, it’s easy to see why
Your problems solved
Q. I’m a single bloke now and for various reasons don’t foresee any change to that status. I have moved…
Novel distractions
Procrastination is easier in the age of Google – but less honest
Your problems solved
Q. A wonderful and generous woman invites me, on a regular basis, to dinner parties at her house. What is…
Going large on Park Lane
The Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, is a cake floating in space. All grand hotels create a parallel universe in which…
A tale of two shops – and two philosophies
Are you Lush or are you Aldi? Me, I’m Aldi all the way. So much so that when someone —…
Feel the burn
My trendy wood-burning stove is leaving me cold, wheezy, red-eyed and exhausted
Woke up late? Don’t blame your genes
‘Oh, I’m an owl,’ said my friend Nick. ‘You’re probably a lark.’ I raised an eyebrow. He explained. Apparently all…
It takes a village (or six)
Can England’s 10,000 rural churches survive?
Dear Mary
Q. I have regularly stayed with a hospitable friend in London but now hesitate to invite myself. She is seventy-something…
