nickhereandnow

Could I really be afraid of the future? I decided to take the problem to my esteemed therapist Dr Melissa Flinch , at her luxurious consult...

If you thought Swami Korianda was just a wild flight of the imagination, think again. A self-proclaimed guru and healer who molested and r...

My regular readers will know about my fear of darkness . But it's only just dawned on me that I also have a fear of the future*. It cam...

When I was a boy, paying too much attention to your appearance was regarded as unseemly vanity. Particularly in the case of women. Tarting ...

Never let it be said that I'm not open to argument. A ban on burkas and face-veils made sense to me on Saturday, but after a weekend of...

I have a sneaking sympathy for the Tory MP who wants to ban the burka or niqab in public because they prevent "normal dialogue with o...

Like many other Brits, Jenny and I decided to have a staycation this year - we're going to Scotland rather than some exotic foreign des...

Can you imagine spending six years not knowing who you are, trying in vain to find out, your whole life an almost total blank? Benjaman Kyl...

Once again some idiotic journalist is blaming the older generation (the "baby boomers") for the hard times facing the young as t...

Being jobless, I have the luxury of being able to take my time over everything. I don't have to rush to meet deadlines, or sweat to kee...

When is a book a good book? Is it only the literary critics who're expert enough to decide? Or is the ordinary reader's opinion jus...

How do you stop people treating your child in a gender-related way? Easy - you refuse to tell them whether the child is a boy or a girl. Th...

A bald man without much body hair was told he couldn't join the Northern Ireland Police Service. Why? Because he couldn't provide ...

Don't you love those absurd scare stories designed to make us terrified of some aspect of daily life we were never worried about before...

It seems there has been a big rise in the number of people feeling lonely. Despite all the media images of happy families and wild parties,...

On January 30 1972, 14 people on a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, were gunned down by British Paratroopers. Yesterday, 38 y...

Unrequited love is a painful business. You pine away secretly (or not so secretly) while the desired person shows no interest in you whatev...

I'm just back from the remote Cairngorms retreat of the Sacred Order of Divine Bliss. As you know, I go there periodically for spiritua...

When I was young and dating women, I ran into some who seemed alarmingly submissive. As I always saw women as equals, I quietly stopped dat...

The legendary Scarlet Blue has challenged me to answer some unusual questions that will bare my soul like never before. After checking wit...