Whether it’s about football transfers, relationship scandals or Westminster feuds, gossip is a glorious tool of social bondingGossip has a poor reputation (have you heard?). But I am going to argue in favour of this pastime, first coined by – who else?…
I may never be cool again. And I’m cool with that | Hannah Jane Parkinson
One of the best things about growing older is leaving behind that teenage fear of liking things that are uncoolLast week I spent some time recording an audiobook version of these columns (cough, out in October, cough). One thing I noticed was the numbe…
I relish a good Freudian slip – that revealing giveaway of the tongue | Hannah Jane Parkinson
It has become a term for a general gaffe, but the true joy is in its original formSigmund Freud has his fans and his detractors. My take? A lot of his work was pioneering and has relevance to this day; a lot of it was nonsense.One of Freud’s greatest l…