It’s 2013 and my best friend Clare and I are midway through one of our regular, booze-soaked weekends. We’re celebrating my 33rd birthday – the perfect excuse to really go for it. The fact that it’s S

When old men are getting hitched more than men in their prime, it seems fair to ask if society has taken a wrong turn. Are they discovering the joy of commitment, intimacy and stability late in life?

Placing my glass of prosecco on the quartz kitchen island, I looked around at the guests at my friend Sandy’s 45th birthday party. I’d known most of them for years – many from the school run – so the

Banged up in solitary confinement in a Japanese prison cell like a common drug addict, Izabel Rose’s facade of respectability was stripped away. Just days earlier, the 26-year-old marketing profession

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For more than a decade, social media ruled my life, says Sathnam Sanghera: it helped with my work, gave me an instant group of witty friends, and made me feel at the centre of things. But its attractions are wearing thin – and I’m not the only one feeling this