As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.