nickhereandnow

The respect for authority figures that was the norm when I was growing up has gradually crumbled over the years. Crumbled so far in fact tha...

The big feature of cancel culture (aka polarisa-tion) is that it puts "being offended" into a whole new context. "Being offen...

It never ceases to amaze me how people will believe not only the unlikely but the clearly impossible. Even if other people pick a hundred ho...

Tact. "Skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues". A word that isn't used much these days, but per...

One thing Jenny and I have never dared to do is take on a "fixer-upper" (a crumbling old house that needs a lot of work to put it ...

It's taken for granted nowadays that tourism and travelling around the world is completely normal, and anyone who prefers to stay at hom...

The only time I've cycled regularly was between the ages of 18 and 20 when I didn't have a car and as a local journalist I needed to...

Pre nuptial agreements have been around for a while, but most couples still marry without one. Are they a good idea or not? Certainly Jenny ...

There are many things people do that leave me scratching my head in bewilderment. Why do people do these things? What's the great attrac...

For as long as I can remember, I've been very physically demon-strative. I love hugging and kissing and holding hands, to me it's fr...

There's a British TV drama right now called "Marriage", which depicts marriage as being boring, frustrating and claustro-phobi...

Why do some people think it's okay to force their beliefs or their principles onto others, along with abuse, threats and self-righteous ...

When I'm constantly reading about other people's obsession with their bodies and what they look like, all the bits they dislike and ...

Why the endless media obsession with the clothes worn by celebs? Who made them, how much they cost, whether they've been worn more than ...

Up to now I've always looked back on my boarding school years in a very negative way. I was bullied constantly, the quality of teaching ...

There are so many much-repeated words of wisdom that make little sense when you start thinking about them. Like the old cliché "money c...

As you know, I'm ferociously opposed to ties, which I regard as totally pointless items of clothing - not suggesting professionalism as ...

I'm always taken aback by accounts of someone lying dead for weeks - or months or even years - before their dead body is discovered. I...

What I've realised as I get older is that things that seemed very easy when I was young are actually much harder than they look. I was s...

There are regular articles in the media about why men are so bad at making intimate, emotional friendships, instead keeping other men at a d...