nickhereandnow

Curious as we are, there are questions we hesitate to ask long-established couples, because there's always a sub-text that's a bit ...

Just why do meat-eaters have to be so viciously abusive to vegetar-ians? I mean, what is their problem? Harriet Walker in the Independent d...

Nude protests are catching on. Those intrepid souls who don't mind baring all their physical imperfect-ions are doing so to oppose a wi...

Should a teacher who thinks schools are appallingly run speak out in public or should she be quiet and keep her frustration and rage to her...

So I thought I'd say something about the meaning of life, the history of the universe and the global epidemic of existential angst. - S...

You'd think a humble clothes line in someone's back garden would be pretty uncontro-versial. Well, think again, because in the Stat...

A cruise entrepren-eur visiting a new terminal at Portsmouth was shocked to discover that passengers on his five-star cruises might come ac...

I don't understand anger. I'm a pretty placid, patient person, and when I see other people fuming and raging about something I wond...

On top of everything else expected of today's women, they're assumed to be hot for sex at any time of the day or night. If they are...

Are all older men terminally boring? One journalist thinks so, and she's caused a bit of a row among other journos who happen to be old...

My schooling was entirely single-sex, including five years at boarding school where my contact with girls was non-existent. Whether this wa...

We all have inner demons we spend our lives wrestling with. Either we find ways of taming them and coming to terms with them, or they becom...

Okay girls, if you're going on a work trip for a few days, make sure your man is well looked-after while you're away. Or he may get...

Even at my grand old age, friendship is still a big mystery. How is that we can click with some people instantly, while with others there...

How can a man kill a woman simply on the grounds that she has sullied the family's "honour"? And how can so many people condo...

Are you squeamish? Fastidious? Super-clean? Then look away now. Because bedbugs are on the rise across the world, infesting the most unlik...

Britain is today stunned and alarmed by the mysterious disappear-ance of the Isle of Wight and its 130,000 residents. Where the island sho...

I've never experienced anything resembling the male menopause, and I'm dubious about its existence. But some doctors claim that 20...

Female admirer: So what's your next post about, Nick? Nick: I've got nothing more to say. I've said it all. Everything. I'v...

If someone had attacked you so violently you ended up paralysed, would it be a fitting punishment for the attacker to be paralysed in retur...