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Electric bikes are a menace to the law-abiding majority
A hazard on pavements and a license for criminals to run wild, proposals to make them even more powerful are baffling
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Cyclists are the rudest, most entitled people in the UK today
Lycra-clad boors give off an almost palpable air of smug self-satisfaction, even as they make life miserable for fellow road users
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The young can be filthy, but my generation was no better
Looking back at my own student days, it’s difficult to criticise today’s crop for their appalling hygiene
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Stay on the sofa this Boxing Day, before the rush of life returns
There’s certainly nothing in the Boxing Day small print about torturing yourself with extreme sports challenges
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The pernickety young should learn the joys of cut-price eating
British shoppers are increasingly buying discounted groceries, opening up a world of culinary and cost-cutting possibilities
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I’m tired of denying it – smoking is fundamentally glamorous
I know by any objective standards cigarettes are a filthy, expensive, health-destroying habit, and yet...
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I’d rather not be told if I was about to be nuked
By all means let the doomsters prep for hideous calamity, but I want to go out with the big bang
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Am I the only woman who wishes Botox had never been invented?
In theory I’m a proud feminist who embraces laughter lines, but it feels as if I’m halfway through a beauty race I never signed up for
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‘The Rules’ are back for 2023 – and it turns out, some things are best left in the past
A Rules Handbook for the 2020s has been released, and, like Freddy Krueger, this is a franchise that refuses to make a graceful exit
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How to have sex like Gwyneth Paltrow
Forget vagina-scented candles and jade eggs, Goop’s ‘ideator-in-chief’ has a new venture – offering intimacy advice to the masses
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The art world maverick who became a Soho restaurant legend
Andrew Edmunds, who came to epitomise the spirit of old Soho, is now celebrated in a new exhibition
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The surprising truth about sex toys through history
It turns out that a recently discovered Roman erotic device is not the earliest or the strangest...
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Banning dogs from footpaths would end a very English tradition
Britain’s public footpaths are arguably the greatest part of our national heritage, the green veins that connect us viscerally to the land
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Sacrificing baths for showers is a false economy. Just ask Churchill
A hot soak is the best place for contemplation and finding inspiration. True refreshment is full submersion, preferably with your best loved
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My wardrobe is full of Vivienne Westwood dresses – they never go out of style
Punk, environmentalist, provocateur, artist and a total goddess, she was the greatest British fashion designer of the past 50 years
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Driving has lost its romance in this bleak age of fuel-efficiency
At the risk of sounding like Nostradamus, I fear James Bond’s next car will be a Toyota Prius
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