A steam train in Essex helped me forget the frigid depths of winter
A trip to nowhere and an Abba sing-a-long are the stuff of escapist Britain
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Dry January won’t save you
In a world of phone addiction, loneliness and sexual drought, drinking is the least of your problems
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Christmas Day in lonely central London
Searching for signs of life on 25 December
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What happens to a balloon when you let go
It is a strong parental reflex to imagine that a child’s small moment of loss is training for a life…
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Kim Kardashian will make you a CEO
A newer model of female celebrity has turned influencers into business moguls
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This England: Unscheduled pit stop
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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After six years of recording my life in this column, it is time to say goodbye
It will feel strange not to relay my life here, week by week, but it will also be freeing for…
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I am beset by boredom, a rare condition that’s not good for me
I forgot Damon Runyon’s name for the entire time it took me to walk from Waitrose to my flat
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