I have long been obsessed with finding something beautiful and romantic about an ending. I've never warmed to nostalgia or...

It's always hard to return from a vacation. You step out, blinking furiously, into the airport terminal to be greeted...

We live in dark times, you may have noticed. The country is taking it in turns to feel angry and...

  Appearances can be deceptive. It sounds obvious to say it but most of us, when we look at someone...

It isn’t a date. Definitely not. We are not meeting with a view to anything other than having a few...

Brexit. Can there be anything left to say? Trade agreements, negotiations, Norway, £350 million, Farage? No, probably not. However, once...

  There used to be a really interesting looking shop on Shepherd's Bush Road in Hammersmith, the quirky middle-class kind of place...

I will never forget that day. How much we sang, how we danced. Once the clouds had cleared, the sky...

  Photographs are unreliable souvenirs. The more time there is behind you, the less lucid and piercing the memories. You know...

Before we start, just to say that I'm in the Guardian Weekend magazine – home of the Blind Date column...