It isn't often that I can relate to the sentiments of an A-lister but I can certainly surmise how Justin Bieber was feeling yesterday - mortified, regretful, guilty and full of self-loathing at his lateness.

Fans and parents of fans have lashed out at the teenage star after...

Our High Street this week, I have to say, is a shame to us all. It's gone a trashy shade of red. The colour pollution of Valentine's paraphernalia started four weeks ago. Four! Barely had the dregs of the January sales rails been relegated further into bargain bins when Clinton's...

It was a relief for me that the Commons voted so strongly in favour of gay marriage - not because I'd like to marry a woman - but for peace of mind that our politicians have not been time warped along with Richard III.

The so-called...

Poor Santa. Either children everywhere have been swapping Sherry for Red Bull or Rudolph's been eating supercarrots, but it seems to me that this year Santa delivered more plastic objects than a Shanghai factory with a power surge.

To put this into perspective, on Christmas eve at my sister's, who...

With a penchant for Dior clothes, vertiginous heels and expensive jewels it's easy to see why the colourful love life of Rachida Dati, 47, the former French Justice Minister, has attracted the world's media. It is also easy to see why the man she claims to be the...

Last week ccampaigners questioned whether teenagers should be taught about porn at school.

The debate plays out against a wider backdrop of commentary about today's school age children being 'the most wired generation yet' and the consequences of that - in this case over exposure to porn. The...

A new book hit shelves this month blaming women for not finding a husband on their own character flaws. Tracy McMillan's Why You're Not Married Yet, suggests that the reason single ladies don't have a ring on their finger is because they are either a bitch, shallow, a...

With her latest book, The New Rules: Internet Dating, Playfairs and Erotic Power, Catherine Hakim joins a growing posse of high profile monogamy-bashers. It's the latest big-splash book this year defending infidelity. All from authors who are happily married.

Alain de Botton sang the praises of adultery in...

Last week a new book, Are We Getting Smarter claimed that, amongst other things, women are acquiring brains faster than guys.

Yes I know, I know. Tell you something you didn't know. However, this scientific victory for the fairer sex doesn't seem to be doing us any good...

It's good to talk, Bob Hoskins used to tell us in those BT ads of the 90's.

Well Bob, apparently it's not anymore. A study out today shows that texting is now the more favoured means of communication - more so than phoning, meeting or tweeting.

Thank...

Not since the sexist introduction the male-only Gentleman's Club has there been such an outrageous gender double standard as the plans to curb grunting in women's tennis. The International Tennis Federation and the Women's Tennis Association are drawing up plans to put a stop to the female grunter...

It's an odd sight for a Sunday night - a sea of women in cocktail dresses and vertiginous heels sipping champagne in a boutique hotel bar dipping marshmallows into a chocolate fountain.

But that was the scene last Sunday at the Gore Hotel in Knightsbridge for the European launch of...

This week I was interviewing long-term happy bachelors for a women's magazine on the rise of singledom. When I say long-term, I mean willingly long-term. Not the spluttering, nervous, perspiring ones who hang around speed dating events desperate to find a girlfriend.

I mean the relationship-refuseniks. The domesticity-dodgers. The...

Five years ago, when I first joined the dating website SugarDaddie.com , hardly anyone had heard of the phenomenon. I joined guiltily, secretly, spurred by a long-held penchant for the older man. Today, sites that pair up successful, established men with younger women have become an unblinkingly common way for...