I should be at my 8am Monday pilates class right now, I love starting the week with a thorough head to toe stretch, only my usually very reliable Honda won't start. So I have borrowed my husband's car at great inconvenience to him as he has a long commute, while he...

I have just renewed my annual subscription for The Cambridge Rambling Club. And I asked myself, could I have spent £4 any better? The club could easily add a nought on the end and members would still pay up. But for just £4 a year, you get the chance to join a jolly...

South African MP George Lekgetho has called for prostitution to be legalised during the football World Cup to be held there in 2010. He believes it would help cut incidences of rape and would bring in taxes to fight poverty. But my CHASTE colleague Carol Freeman...

I recently contributed an article on political blogging to Richard Bailey for the next publication of Behind the Spin. I naturally mentioned how Labour lagged behind Conservative bloggers, who have fire in their bellies and have dominated the political blogging scene,...

I always remember a newspaper editor telling me that stories about disabled people or with a disorder like autism did not sell papers, he used to shun them. He might have felt differently if someone he knew or loved had a disability. Getting positive media coverage is...

The sooner phone tapping evidence is permitted in our courts to help secure convictions of terrorists the better. How can anyone argue against presenting evidence to show we are serious about locking them up? The safety and security of our citizens should be the first...

With The Times today asking: "Where have all the men gone?", I asked Liza Moore, who runs an introductions agency in Cambridge, Tempting Fate, (a former PR client), to describe today's dating scene, what men and women are looking for, and how they can find their soul...