11:05am Monday 6th July 2009
Taste is a funny thing, isn’t it? It’s almost entirely subjective. I‘m pretty certain, for example, that anything I like represents the pinnacle of refinement, while anything favoured by that couple down the road with the pig-shaped pottery planter and faux wishing well on their front lawn does not.
11:38am Monday 29th June 2009
Sunday evening TV is supposed to ease you comfortably into the week ahead, so why is our columnist so wound up about it?
2:36pm Friday 19th June 2009
As I’ve repeated many times before (once or twice in this column) I’m no fan of working weekends.
11:06am Monday 15th June 2009
Catherine Cain almost detects a silver lining to last-week's London Underground strike.
11:37am Monday 8th June 2009
Why is it so difficult to throw things away? Catherine Cain, one of life's hoarders, 'needs' help.
10:25am Wednesday 3rd June 2009
There are times in this job when you lose your temper. There are times when, in the heat of the moment, you use colourful language. Then there are the times when you want to pull out all of your hair, chew off your finger-nails and run screaming into the street beating your chest in sheer frustration while pulling off a passable impression of Tarzan.
11:02am Monday 1st June 2009
When I rule the world, which can surely only be the matter of a few weeks away, cyclists will be banned.
11:42am Tuesday 26th May 2009
When I’m on holiday I do my absolute best to avoid the real world. Newspapers are banned and the only bulletins we watch on TV are of the local variety. But even we couldn’t miss the cascading revelations that a startlingly large proportion of our elected representatives seem to be claiming more in expenses each year than most of us take home in our wage packets.
2:06pm Monday 27th April 2009
There's bitter irony in the fact that although we are all supposed to be connected with each other 24/7 in this brave new electronic world, people have probably never been more isolated.
11:54am Friday 24th April 2009
I like Easter, I like it a lot. It has a lot of the good parts of Christmas (time off work, seasonal food, rubbish television) without a lot of the bad parts of Christmas (too much time of work, possibility of strangling one of your relatives, rubbish television).
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