used to be somebody

IT's one of those jolly office jokes that, for some of us, never quite manages to be funny: yelling 'part-timer!' at anyone leav...

I HOPE it isn't true, I really do. And there are reasons to suspect it might not be entirely true - or not irreversibly true - that, as ...

"I felt they were both drowning, but I could only save one." That line is from a r ather haunting piece last weekend by the Times ...

HIGHLIGHTER pens! Architects' fees! Room service dinners on overnight trips! (Bear with me: this gets more interesting). Bank overdraft ...

WHAT happens to the idea of work-life balance, when it's too little work and not too much that's the problem? After a week in which ...

“People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.” There are many good reasons to like Dolly Parton, but...

WHAT happens to ambition, when you have children? I've spent the weekend pondering this one, preparing to debate it on the radio with th...