Diary

Diary - Oona King

• 12 September 2005

The more I see my husband, the more I see what I've been missing as a politician. Blow me down if I'm not more in love now than I've been for the past eight years

Diary - Annalisa Barbieri

• 05 September 2005

I have just put my central London flat on the market. I want to live somewhere where I am the most intimidating, the most pikey person in the area

Diary - Terry Eagleton

• 29 August 2005

At Chicago, airport security staff solemnly ran their electric wand over my daughter's nappy. You can't fight terrorism without getting your hands dirty

Life & Society

Diary - Zoe Williams

• 22 August 2005

My dog has gone organic. His "Ocean Treats" smell so intensely fishy, I'm starting to doubt whether what I've been eating all my life was actually fish

Life & Society

Diary - Julia Hobsbawm

• 15 August 2005

Luckily, our new male Brazilian au pair has decided not to take his family's advice to return home after the Stockwell shooting

Diary - Margaret Drabble

• 08 August 2005

Somebody - I think it was a naughty boy - threw an egg at me. "Good shot!" I cried, in cowardly appeasement, and then booked my ticket out of town

Diary - Joanna Coles

• 01 August 2005

"There isn't any crime here," he said. The English husband snapped back: "I suppose that's because everyone's so rich. Typical Americans!"

Diary - Andy Kershaw

• 25 July 2005

As I write, I can hear banging from the lane behind the house. Back in a minute . . . This is absolutely true: I've just got back from chasing two motorcycle thieves

Diary - Elinor Goodman

• 18 July 2005
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Channel 4 insists that I was the first woman in my field. But the only first I think I can honestly claim is having charged a dog to my expenses

Diary - Fi Glover

• 11 July 2005

Michael Portillo came in for a chat. I wish one of our guests would wear such a bright red shirt every Sunday morning. It helps enormously with the circadian rhythms