nickhereandnow

One of the things that makes modern life difficult is that so many people no longer simply express their emotions, they have to act them out...

People tell their children to behave like an adult - or behave like a grown-up. Either way that leaves plenty of scope as the behaviour of m...

Author Ruby Warrington says in her book "Women Without Kids" that ever since she got married she's constantly told she should ...

Urban parents want their children to be able to play in the street, as they did themselves when they were young, but increasingly they'r...

When I was growing up the idea of "bad taste" was commonplace and most people took care not to do or say anything that was "i...

The complaints are piling up about public peeing . In other words people (mainly men) frantic for a pee, relieving themselves anywhere they ...

I'm very glad we moved into a house a few years' back that needed absolutely nothing doing to it. It had plenty of rooms sensibly la...

When Jenny and I first moved to Belfast in 2000, a lot of people were puzzled by our decision. Why Belfast, they asked? What was wrong with ...

Some people find everyday noises so disturbing they have to get away from them. They simply can't endure someone chewing gum, tapping th...

I've never understood those people who're obsessed with power. People who're desperate to be the Prime Minister, or the chief ex...

I never considered moving back to my parents' house as a young adult, but more and more children are doing so as the cost of living cris...

Most novelists seem to assume that their readers all have photo-graphic memories and can follow every twist and turn of their books without ...

Three years ago, I lamented that the assumption that every succeeding generation would do better for themselves than the previous one seemed...

I've got to the age when I start to doubt some of my memories, seeing as they're so long ago and there may be nobody to corroborate ...

A huge controversy over the news that Puffin Publishing have made a stack of amend-ments to books by the children's author Roald Dahl af...

I'm a naturally curious person, and Jenny is even more so, which is one reason we get on so well, I guess. I'm insatiably curious ab...

It always annoys me when people don't take other people's difficulties seriously but casually dismiss them on the basis that "o...

Some axe-grinding journalists do their best to make couples like us, living in large houses, guilty about our "space hogging" and ...

The mysterious disappearance of Lancashire woman Nicola Bulley has brought dozens of amateur detectives out of the woodwork, convinced they ...

The Chancellor is obsessed with getting the "economically inactive" back to work to relieve labour shortages and increase his tax ...