"Mortified that someone would fuss over me, I adopted a breezily upright gait and a neutral expression — this achieved the desired effect but led, almost immediately, to the opposite emotional response within me: I found myself distantly offended that no one seemed to care.

"I am not in the business of rehabilitating the image of Trump voters — the combined ranks of the American media have spent nearly 10 years doing enough of that already — but this is too simple an explanation for what appears to have happened."

"I may have thought I was unfit and out-of-shape in 2019 but I now realise this is relative. At that time, I was undoubtedly pudgier than I’d ever been, but I was also clearly willing to have a topless photo of myself published in a national newspaper."

If you’re reading this on Saturday, we’re right on its cusp. With a pleasing asymmetry, this time tomorrow won’t even be 'this time' tomorrow. It’ll be an hour earlier. I think...

"When comfortably middle-class people die of drug overdoses, it is described as ‘tragic’, they are ‘troubled’ and we are ‘devastated’. Less well-heeled addicts are ‘users’ and, well, we tend not to speak about their deaths quite as much at all."

"Ireland has, in fact, been in Lebanon long enough that some of the local staff who’ve worked closely with them have developed strongly-accented English, as displayed in an old RTÉ news segment that went viral this week"

"...it feels inescapably weird to reach half-time in a Champions League game and find myself buffered by offers of cheaper car insurance, budget Mediterranean holidays, and jarringly regular injunctions that I join the British Army corps of engineers..."

"Constantly framing austerity decisions as “tough choices” was clearly intended to make Labour seem serious and sober — the sensible adults returning to the room — but its primary effect has been to highlight the choices not made."

This week, A Very Royal Scandal dropped on Amazon Prime, the second big-budget filmic treatment of Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview to have been released in just five months

"I, for one, shudder to think how many replacement Macbook chargers they’ll have to sell to recoup that amount of money. Six? Seven, even?"