Like most people, I have been given many pieces of wisdom over the years by my parents. However, three from each of them have stuck in my mind through the years. Perhaps significantly, they differ in their nature. Firstly, my Dad’s. They were: 1. When driving, always have your speed adjusted before turning into a ...
Sometimes when it’s late at night — you’re coming home from a party looking fine and have a little bit too much liquor in your system — bad things can happen. Terrible things that will change your life forever. It can affect your self worth, your future relationships and how you see the world. But ...
Women are always portrayed in movies as having it all together career-wise but being compete dunces with their personal lives. Sure, she has a job and friends, but she can’t really be happy until she meets Mr Right and has a chance to settle down and begin a family. If only she understood that before ...
A woman wrote in to an agony aunt asking whether she should allow her 24 year old to sleep with her long term boyfriend when she comes to visit. Rowan Pelling replied: You are not telling your daughter not to share a bed with her boyfriend in her own home, just as you wouldn’t dictate ...
Don’t you look nice! Where are you going tonight? Well, doesn’t that sound… fun. Listen sweetie, before you head out remember what I said about keeping safe: Watch your drink ~ Even at a house party there could be some friend of a friend with a chemistry degree so keep your eye on your glass. ...
Magazines like to give helpful advice about how to improve your life. They offer suggestions about your career, your health and your sex life. This advertisement hoped to capitalise on it all, but failed miserably.
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
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Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
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Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
