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On hearing the rumours that the boxer David Haye is in a 'throuple'--a three-person romantic relationship--with Una Healy from the Saturdays and a model named Sian Osborne, I felt a [...]

Iknow that all must have prizes in the Victimisation Olympics these days, but when I heard a bicycle-rider on Radio 5 Live this week complaining about being 'dehumanised' and 'othered', [...]

When I was young, I dated a man who wasn't in advertising, but had lots of friends who were. Because I am witty, at some point during dinner--usually when dessert [...]

Women who fall in love with killers have always fascinated and repulsed me. What drives them? Do they think they can 'save' these men? Are they secret sadists, acting by [...]

As a proud resident of Sussex, I had to laugh when I heard that Facebook had threatened to ban references to Devil's Dyke--the 100-metre-deep South Downs valley which has been [...]

January is when the difference between the rich and the poor becomes most evident. Whereas many people face a month plagued by the three Ds--debt, divorce and doldrums--the famous tend [...]

Thumbing avidly through Heat magazine recently in a fevered search for the latest on the Cheryl/Liam/Naomi infernal triangle, I was startled to find a pull-out preview of a new true-crime [...]

Your typical Trollope-loving, Brahms-bothering Spectator reader probably won't be aware that the most recent winner of Big Brother was a girl called Isabelle Warburton, but her victory was a joy [...]

At the start of the year, a Facebook friend messaged me, telling me that she and a chum had been asked to leave their north London book group (how I [...]

In the early 1970s, my dad was a singular sort of feminist. As well as working all night in a factory, he had banned my mother from the kitchen for [...]

Britain is trapped in a bad marriage with the EU. It's time to leave For decades--even before it had its name, which sounds thrilling, as words with an X in [...]

I've never lived with a man I didn't marry: Tweedledee, 1979-1984, and Tweedledum, 1984-1995. (The names have been changed to irritate the pair of them.) So when I left my [...]

As a provincial teenage virgin with ideas so far above my station that they gave me vertigo, I frequently reflected bitterly that whoever coined the phrase 'Schooldays are the best [...]

'There's a dark cloud rising from the desert floor/ I packed my bags and I'm heading straight into the storm/ Gonna be a twister to blow everything down/ That ain't [...]