Impeccable Table Manners

There's an age gap in this week's Guardian Blind Date. We have to be careful about age – some people...

One of my favourite things about living in London is very usually a pet hate for others – the city's...

Is this the longest January ever? Did they add some days in? It must be, like, the 700th of January...

Pretty much all my childhood, my mother worked weekends, and on weekends I wasn't seeing my father or his family,...

It begins. 2018 is not for messing about; we're getting on with it, cutting oldo the chase. With that in...

Today is my birthday. I am 42. I don't really know what to say about this turn of events. I...

It's an impossibly beautiful morning as I sit writing this. The sky is perhaps the bluest it has been for...

There are some headlines you just don't want to click on, aren't there? "Man finds maggot in bar of Wispa...

If this week has taught us anything – and that's a big if – it's that your past catches up...

I've always said politics should be avoided on a first date, and have often been told I am wrong. In...