weight
A Spartan’s guide to body shaming
Now that new drugs have allowed the government’s Fat Controller to celebrate a nation of skinnies – let us hope…
Why the Japanese flock to Battersea Park
They weren’t familiar park visitors, but a couple with a specific purpose, laden down with camera equipment. They unpacked carefully,…
The joy of the Turkish barber
Just as you always hope will happen, I knew I had met the man of my dreams almost on sight.…
The joy of weight loss
It was a few months ago. I was coming back from my morning walk with Greta in Battersea Park, so…
Dear Mary
Q. For professional reasons it is important that I am not fat. However I have put on more than a…
Choice cuts
Covid has exposed our muddled thinking about food
Fat-shaming didn’t do me any harm
One of the genuine pleasures I always take in arriving back in the north-east after being in London is that…
Real Life
The game was up when I put on a pair of size 14 jodhpurs at the country store and they…
‘I feel compelled to be disgraceful’
Miriam Margolyes chews the fat with Tanya Gold about mother love, anti-Zionism and too much shagging
The dirtiest racehorse names
Watching whip-thin jockey George Baker, just short of six feet, greeting his mounts used to make me think of the…
My children have turned my weight loss into the Stanford prison experiment
I’ve become obsessed with my BMI. For those of you who don’t know, it stands for body mass index and…
