I understand that it might not be pleasant for a comedian to be told that the joke they said is offensive, or sexist, or racist, but I suppose that is the problem with telling jokes for a living

It was like someone saying they’d studied with Ronald McDonald, or played rugby with the Statue of Liberty

I’ve been aware of these scam books for years, and had been tempted to write about what their existence says about writing. Now that I had one of these things with my own name on it, I knew my time had come.

Why, this day eight years ago, did I take a picture of a crisp? More accurately, why did I take 18 pictures of said crisp?

Below you will find a seasonal selection box of stratagems, going over every conceivable dinner-table dust-up and fireside fisticuff that could kick off this Christmas, telling you exactly how to steer past it and on to a better, more fulfilling alternative.

Much of the boring dystopia we now find ourselves in could be called 'quietly alarming convenience

Let’s put our failures in the past, or the future will never be what it used to

"...their stranglehold over the culture has now gone and they exist mostly as portable landfill, tethered to us for eternity..."

I know plenty of people who scroll TikTok, but I know almost nobody who actually posts there, because everyone I know is, like me, too old and thick to adapt to the always-on, face-forward, bright and shiny world of TikTok culture

Lately, being a football fan has meant having to swallow a lot of bitter pills, some so revolting you start to wonder if each compromise is even worth it