Marina Hyde is cheered by Sting’s welcome return to cover status – on the front of Costco’s magazineI am wildly indebted to a Worcestershire-based Lost in Showbiz reader, who has been good enough to send me the current edition of The Costco Connection. The Costco Connection is the mag produced by the wholesale warehouse chain [...]
As Labour and the Tories battle to be the most family friendly party, a course for new parents to prevent marriage breakups is gaining attention. But how far should the state intervene?In the weeks after the birth of their first child, Rachel and Richard Savage, struck down by the crushing exhaustion that comes with tending [...]
Why is there so much fuss about the flesh-coloured pants Venus Williams wore for the Australian Open?Stand aside Lady Gaga, for 2010 has a brand new ambassador for big pants. Here’s Venus Williams at the Australian Open wearing an acid yellow tennis dress complete with splits in the skirt that reveal her flesh-coloured knickers. [...]
The new Pixo is cheap, is pretty nippy around town, and, perhaps best of all, has done away with the glove compartment altogetherDuring the course of automobile history, there have been some strange car parts with strange names – crankshaft, for example, manifold gasket, rear gusset – but none has become as fixed and misleading [...]
It doesn’t look much from the outside, but step inside and you find yourself in a surreal Persian wonderland. The food’s not bad, eitherEarly in the decade though it may be for long-term predictions, I can’t imagine the next 10 years producing a more pleasingly curious or curiously pleasing meal than the [...]
A missionaries’ daughter, newly arrived in London, is still looking for love in all the wrong churches.Out intrepid correspondent continues her exploration of the marriage customs of evangelical Christians. Of course, all this is entirely fictional.Dear Verity Sunday lunchtime I know you will be very disappointed to hear this and I’m really sorry but I [...]
Too many carers are isolated in their struggle to help people with dementia lead better lives. It’s time we gave them a handI’ve been seeing dementia everywhere recently. Terry Pratchett has it. Half of my friends’ parents have it. Every time someone forgets a name they put it down to creeping dementia. It sometimes seems [...]