Happy Bonfire Night! Have a wonderful time burning effigies of a 17th century Catholic dude with a chip on his shoulder. I have to say, as national holidays go, it’s all rather odd. Remember, remember the fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever ...
The Artificial Virginity Hymen Kit is now available and is causing trouble in Egypt. It allows women who are not virgins to fake it so their new husbands will think their hymen has broken, something like blood will appear, and husbands will never know that their wives have had other lovers.
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
