Margaret Thatcher is despised by many left-leaning Britons. However, how many of our former prime ministers are loved? We British have a need to take down uppity people. Margaret Thatcher, however, was something special. "The eyes of Calligula, the mouth of Marilyn Monroe," said Francois Mitterand of her. Her presence...

My father has never left the tiny corner of Mumbai in which he lives. He was born deaf, at a time when being disabled meant you were condemned to a limited formal education. He recently visited my brother and me in London, where we live and work. The combination of...

Royal Mail has published a postal address for kids to write to Santa. Each letter gets a personal response from Father Christmas. I wrote to Santa. I am left handed, so I wrote with my right hand, which created a more child-like scrawl.

As children, if we are loved, our...

Breaking up with a lover is hard to do. But it has to be done. If only because you need to stop sharing your bed with them. But with a friend, do you break up? And how do you break up?

'It's better to spend time with...

The 'SkyCopter' has now left for newer, more urgent stories and Tottenham residents stepped out this weekend for their weekly shop. And for those Tottenham residents who do not live on the High Road, this was our first glimpse, with our own eyes, of the burnt down shops, homes, pubs...

As I write, I can still smell the smoke and the helicopters buzzing atop. I live in Tottenham and have for fourteen years now. As I returned home on Saturday night, our bus was abuzz with worries about whether our partners and friends - whom we were returning to -...

"Finished charity work, now impromptu cocktails and some pierogi in a secret Shoreditch bar: what a weekend!" How much insecurity and effort goes into a Facebook update like this? All at once, this person's update is trying to broadcast how ethical, how fabulous and how achingly cool this person is....

At a recent visit to Oxford Street, I noticed shop assistants have stopped smiling at customers. Worse still, I felt that we the customers stopped expecting a smile, even when handing over our precious money to buy what they're selling us. Everyone in the shops seemed to have that I-am-so-cool-to-smile...

When they came towards us, violent and ready to punch us, I thought, "No, they've mixed us up with someone they've got a feud with." But soon enough, they shouted out words like "batty man" and "faggot." And I realised it was because we were gay. Eight teenagers, four of...