Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.

Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.