I’ve got a new book out this week, which is why I’m sitting here on a Saturday morning typing up this lovely review – promo never sleeps, guys. On the operating table today we have ...

Dating stories, Blind Date reviews, books, relationships, LGBTQ stuff and the terrifying awkwardness of being alive in the 21st century ...

I was asleep an hour ago. Life is just a series of disorienting shocks, isn't it, administered at will by ...

Will the first date of November give us something to remember? Only one way to find out. Ducking for apples this week are Alan, 33, a marketing manager and on the left, and Robert, 30, who is a doctor ...

In these serious times, there is a feeling of guilt attached to frivolity. A sense, perhaps, that you’re playing MarioKart while Rome frazzles. Political intrigue has rendered showbiz gossip ...

Fate has thrown together in the Guardian Blind Date blender of doom Imelda, 56, a local authority officer, and Jayesh, 66, who works in medical devices. Two jobs I want to know absolutely nothing more ...

Time was, I would review this Blind Date column every week, but nowadays it’s very rare for me to do two weeks in a row. Time gets away from me, my brain doesn’t work on Saturday mornings any more, I ...

Madonna is turning 62. In celebration, here are my favourite lines from every single one of her UK chart hits, in chronological order, with a few less successful singles and album tracks thrown in ...

How do you solve a problem like Alexandra? Maybe she isn’t the problem. I was bullied at school. I may have mentioned it. From my very first day, when I ran enthusiastically to the Wendy house and put ...

My fourth novel LEADING MAN is out now in paperback, and this is its delicious, pinkified, refreshed cover: I don’t care where you get it from – support an indie if you can! – but here are links to ...

For reasons best known to the Guardian, this week’s Blind Date takes place in Berlin, which, for those who were busy nodding off in geography or off school altogether doing aerosols through a tea ...

You know when people who aren’t famous or popular enough to have advanced features on Instagram say things like, “link in bio”? This is like that. Here are those links!