Humour

The case for… Bad photos of ourselves

What the heck is this bog-eyed, court-sketch-artist slap in the face?

The case for… Baths

‘Lying in your own filth’? How dirty are these people?

‘I treat the sun with the contempt which it deserves. It is my enemy’

I return from holiday painfully burnt – and with no one to blame but myself

The Case For… Small Talk

It’s helpful! What else are you supposed to do when you meet someone new?

The commander-in-cheat comes to Scotland

Donald Trump’s dishonesty on a Scottish fairway has left golfing’s governing body in the rough

The case for… Band T-shirts from high street shops

Fire up the DB5, Bond could be licensed to thrill on Gravelly Hill

The Birmingham-born writer Steven Knight has to revive the 007 franchise. What might he be thinking?

Dear Keir: ‘Something about me drives female colleagues wild’

Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

Dear Keir: Let’s leave emotions to the Americans

Grown-up advice from everyone’s favourite centrist

Enduring the heatwave is an Irishman's purgatory

I play it for laughs, but my sweating hatred for the heat is completely sincere

Dear Keir: ‘Welcome our AI overlords. Bow to your obsolescence’

Grown-up advice from everyone's favourite centrist

‘Sports day had been delightful up to the point the parents had to race…’

As we lined up at the starting line at my daughter’s nursery school sports day, little did I know that I was on the brink of victory

Dear Keir: ‘A new persona will get you out of your rut’

Grown-up advice from everybody’s favourite centrist

Ffs, that TACO is hard to swallow for we acronym klutzes

The case for… Cheese slices

Séamas O’Reilly: Doctor Who has given my son his first telly scare

I am especially sympathetic when I remember the onscreen horrors which once befell me

‘I’m considering landing this year’ – my week as a swift

Each week, Simon Barnes describes what the last seven days has been like for a member of the animal kingdom