241 Pizza

Double click if you want the bin emptied

Notebook: If you give a man a household chore, just leave him to get on with it

We are in thrall to the thrill of novelty

Meditations on well-worn quality, cosmetic surgery and foot faults

Turn back the clock – my ode to dawn

I have to confess that I am firmly in the minority camp on the great question of Greenwich Mean versus British Summer

Crumbling at a storm in a tea break

There is a horrible sense that public life has become one vast poptastic Smash Hits interview

Fred is the man of my dreams — and his

Catnaps, jackets and worthy tomes at the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival

Fuchsia perfect – and worn by my hero

Notebook

A royal life well lived and well captured

How sad that human kind cannot bear too much niceness

Believe me, there is no whimsy in quinsy

Maybe there should be a word for the idea that something nasty sounds so nice

Sacrifice of troops resonates in tales of war

Lest we forget: how literature ensures we remain haunted by power of frontline narratives

It’s Big Brother who watches us now

Notebook: trends pioneered by the show have taken over contemporary life

Survival of the fittest – ideas, that is

Notebook

A Fiat 500 is far too exciting a car for driving lessons

It’s like ditching Polly Toynbee for La Cicciolina

Here’s a thought: let’s play devil’s advocate

Isn’t it curious that those who affect to despise religion seem so desperate to copy what the religious do?

Too bitter a pill for me to swallow

Getting old, the perfect job and mobile madness

Here’s where all the women get off

Only men really understand railways

Victoria’s age is our history's greatest

I don’t think there has been a better time in our history. So why, then, the stigma?

There's no way to argue with a poptart

Some people love arguments that don't rely on reason

How can I make it clear if I've really got to go?

Sometimes it is nature that calls, not the chance of a more interesting conversation

For God's sake! Give Kirstie a break

It seems that Channel 4 aspires to be as pure in thought and word as the most austere mother superior