Ruby and Alex
Imagine being 24, decent-looking, with your future lying ahead of you, exciting and mysterious and certain to contain lots of...
Tony and Kieran
I had planned to be somewhere else today: offline. But just as the bat signal compels Bruce Wayne to slip...
Convenience store hero
When I was 17, I got a job in a supermarket. I often say it was my favourite or second-favourite...
Sarah and Matt
I must confess, there are some days I don't feel like sitting here and typing these out. It's Saturday, you...
Kaisa and Rivkah
Today's Guardian Blind Date features Kaisa, a 24-year-old research analyst and freelance writer, who has put on her shiniest DMs...
Ben and Fiona
Has anyone contacted the government directly and warned them about the consequences of a full lockdown? That we will once...
Ella and Josh
The news has been so relentlessly depressing this week I don't think I can even bring myself to do my...
Jack and Francine
What I have 'enjoyed' most about the deathless debate around returning to offices is the wilful ignorance by both the...
The music behind The Magnificent Sons
As you may know, my second novel THE MAGNIFICENT SONS came out on hardback on 6 August. It tells the...
Madonna: The immaculate composition
Madonna is turning 62. In celebration, here are my favourite lines from every single one of her UK chart hits,...































