Despite deadlines, demands and general downheartedness, on a typical weekday morning, I am not usually taken to weeping into my tea. Neither am I often seething with rage, nor humbled, or in awe, or heartbroken - all of which I was as I gazed at my screen this morning. The...

Clubs, pubs and bars often have restrictions on whom to allow through their doors - under 18s, smokers and those wearing sports shirts are usually off the guest list. Considering that admitting punters who meet these criteria would mean that the establishment would be breaking the law, risking offence or...

So you want to be famous. For many young women, thoughts of singing, dancing, acting and entrepreneuring their way to the top are common routes, but for others among you, although these careers have all flashed through your mind, it seems that you might be tempted to settle for just,...

For the last month or so, life has been pretty frenetic; work has been cranking up again as the world and his wife comes back from holidays, I've been travelling a lot on various trips and the calendar is so full that I've had to resort to uttering the horrifically...

It's a weighty issue - the issue of weight. It's constantly in the news - skinny celebs, "plus-sized" models, childhood obesity on the rise, and on a worldwide scale it seems to be mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fattest of them all?

We often hear that our...

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post called Maybe It's Because You're a Londoner - it was a bit controversial, to be honest - in it I discussed my shock at the rather indifferent reaction some Londoners had to a suicide on the...

Women like to do things together - go to the bathroom, try things on, drink wine, hunt. We're pack animals - always have been, always will be. When it comes to pursuing potential mates though, it's best to employ the services of just one or two focused, highly trained professionals....

As the summer marches ever onwards and results season looms for thousands of students, there will be many nervous teenagers and families around the UK. No change there. However, in the years to come, parents might be worried for a different reason. I looked up the definition of "education" in...

As it says in my one line bio above, by day I work in the field of sustainability. I actually had to fight the urge there not to put the word in inverted commas à la most people who introduce me at meetings. It turns out that if you work...

For anybody living, working or passing through London these days, the title phrase of this piece is a common sight in tube stations. For anyone who hasn't seen it, this tagline comes from the CBS Outdoor Londoner campaign, apparently demonstrating to the world how fab and forward thinking...

#Hackgate #NOTW #Murdoch - if you're on Twitter these are the go-to hashtags for proving you've got your finger on the political pulse. If you're on any news site, you're urged to visit the live streaming of events; the latest resignation, confession, lawsuit. My view on the whole debacle? Disgraceful,...