My wife often says I’m the gayest straight man she knows. I’m happy to talk about my emotions, I cry at romantic comedies and I happily sit with her to watch The X Factor. But the aspect she most seems to value about my feminine side is that I enjoy shopping with her...
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I’m 45 now and, when I go away, I’ve started taking my own food with me. It started with bags of nuts but has now extended to porridge. This worrying sign of ageing has pushed me into trying new things that help me feel young again. My purple boots...
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MY youngest daughter, Bibi, gave birth to a son named Elliott two weeks ago. I went to visit her last Saturday and, as she opened the door, I could see she was exhausted. As I looked at her pale...
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Many commentators have proclaimed that we’re all going to hell in a hand cart after last week’s riots. The evidence suggests, however, that mankind has always been on this journey, and it’ll take forever to reach the fiery flames.
I recently found a diary from 1979, when I was 12. During the opening weeks of...
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Simon Buckley: The Demon Headmaster has had his day
Much has been made by David Cameron and the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, of the need to restore discipline in schools in the wake of the riots. Their simplistic view is that if teachers had more power to exert proper authority in the classroom then all the social ills that we witnessed on the...
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