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I cannot remember when I became completely apolitical. For well over thirty years when lecturing about Arab culture, I used to dread...

“Pathetic!” said my step father-in-law a couple of years ago. He’d just heard that my son had found his new girlfriend via Tinder...

“You could buy a shoe box in Mayfair...” Such was the strapline of an advertisement by ‘Locate Guernsey’ in the House & Home section...

I’d been teaching English in Milan. Two colleagues, Gary and Andrew, driving home to UK for Christmas, invite me to join them.

Jane, my recently-widowed 95-year old mother-in-law didn’t say exactly “Burn my love letters!”. But close enough...