| A real sucker for reality shows | | 9:00am Friday 9th May 2008 | | I'm a sucker for reality TV. I know it's brain-rotting tosh of the very first order, but I just can't resist the siren lure of Saturday night's I'd Do Anything or, even better, Wednesday evening's The Apprentice. |
| Panic buy: A cliché too far | | 9:00am Friday 9th May 2008 | | PANIC: A sudden and infectious fear or unreasoning terror. Panic-buy: without doubt the worst, most infuriating, mindless, teeth-gnawingly irritating journalistic cliché of modern times: a lazy, hackneyed turn of phrase that should bring with it an immediate fixed penalty notice. |
| Make a bid for date with Z-listers | | 11:52am Friday 2nd May 2008 | | EVER dreamed of sitting down over a candlelit supper with Kylie? Or perhaps you find yourself wondering whether George Clooney would be the perfect gent and let you choose what film you wouldn't watch on a romantic date. |
| Cain Classifications to guide you | | 11:50am Friday 2nd May 2008 | | Since Christmas I've been working my way through the large number of books I gratefully received as presents. When I noticed recently that the leaning tower of Pisa beside the bed was down to its final volume, I decided that a restocking trip was necessary, but where to begin? |
| Top brass uneased by new sport | | 10:23am Friday 25th April 2008 | | WHILE the struggle to elect the next American president enters the final stages, after a campaign that seems to have lasted longer than forever but less than an eternity, London will have its very own Battle Royal next month. |
 | Here’s looking at you, and me | | 10:54am Fri 18 Apr 08 | | LAST year you may remember a Private Eye style Diary piece by esteemed former columnist Jon Massey highlighting the almost eerie facial similarities of local Parliamentarian David Gauke and not very funny comic Jimmy Carr. |
| One had to go: my husband or the cat | | 10:52am Friday 18th April 2008 | | I'm naturally a cat person. Although I quite like dogs, especially whippets and dachshunds, I have to say that, given a free rein and a husband without a life-threatening allergy to cat dander, my pet of choice would always be feline. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Going nuts over doughnuts | | 9:40am Friday 11th April 2008 | | MOST of us are used to reading the odd bit of exaggeration in newspapers.Take it from this diarist, you learn the merits of adding words such as "shocking", "controversial" and, most importantly, "outraged" to your vocabulary on day one of hack school. |
| Welcome to the frocky horror show | | 9:39am Friday 11th April 2008 | | Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride, so the saying goes, but in case anyone reading this is unmarried and about to play the matron of honour role for the third time, my advice is don't worry. |
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