nickhereandnow

The idea is regularly mooted in the UK that people shouldn't get free medical treatment - or any medical treatment at all - if they'...

I suddenly had a eureka moment. I realised my idea of the "outside world" was all wrong. For some time I've been feeling a bit...

I'm not one of those people who goes crazy at the sight of a buffet and piles my plate with as much food as possible to "get my mon...

Apparently research shows that religious people are happier and healthier than atheists. But is this true? If so, as a life-long atheist I...

Like most people, I guess, I take news of some especially long-lived oldie quite uncritically, but apparently a lot of these amazing ages ma...

People can't resist the urge to speculate madly about some police investigation, despite being warned that such speculation is obstructi...

I sometimes fantasise about being so rich I can have everything done for me while I laze around doing nothing. I would be waited on hand and...

I'm perpetually amazed by the number of people who desperately want to look younger, and resort to all sorts of dubious methods to achie...

All can now be revealed. I'm not on my death bed, I'm not in prison, I haven't been scammed for thousands of pounds. Jenny and I...

There will now be a short intermission I leave you with a selfie - in Brighton, May 2024

Things (and people) I marvel at: Aeroplanes. How do these massive things manage to stay in the air? The internet. All 1613 of my posts are s...

Well, that's quite enough earnest introspection. And now for something completely different. No sooner was a new statue of the late Quee...

Funny things, inhibitions. You can be totally inhibited about one thing but not at all inhibited about something else. Things I'm not in...

Why are people so abusive nowadays? Why can't they just deal with an annoying situation calmly, without vilifying someone? Two customers...

Supposedly high heels are losing their appeal. Young women are less likely to wear them, businesses are less likely to insist on them. Comfo...

Another heated debate about parenting and to what extent you should trust your child to do their own thing without fussing and fretting and ...

When I was young, dating was a fairly simple business. You dated a friend of a friend, or a workmate, or a neighbour, and either you got on ...

I read that loneliness is on the rise, with seven in ten of 18 to 24 year olds saying they feel lonely and 29 per cent saying they feel a fu...

I like to think I'm not nostalgic, which may be true in a general sense - I don't want to return to any supposedly preferable histor...

Are you obliged to your family simply because they're your family? Is it peculiar to step away from them, even if they're having a h...