Diary of a Goldfish

In  Roman Polanski and the sin of simplification  our beloved Victoria Coren Mitchell discusses a new book by Samantha Geimer (the woman tha...

1. People have and always did marry for silly reasons. The proposed marriage tax break provides another very silly reason. People who marry...

A woodland path in late summer; leaves slightly yellowing, sun low in the trees. So Stephen and I were on honeymoon in West Wales, comi...

When I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a detective. Television had taught me that children could achieve almost anything by writing letter...

In the last few weeks of weather, so hot that even I have noticed, there seems to have been a lot of column inches dedicated to the accept...

Content warning for references to fictional depictions of extreme violence. One of the many things the late Iain Banks could do that few o...

Louise Mensch ( groan ) has courted controversy (it's what she does for a living) with a series of blogs entitled What Men Want , which ...