If You Want Sex, Have An Affair.

I Know That Brighton Is Famously A Mixture Of The Seedy And The Elegant, But In The Summer Of 2001 Seediness Swamped Elegance Hands Down.

Knowing That The 'sex And The City' Chicks Now Rack Up Almost Two Centuries Between Them, Why Do Some Of Us Fuss And Hiss About A Bit Of Retouching On Their Forthcoming Film Poster?

As A Precocious Teen I Dreamed Of Being Graham Greene. Well, As It Turned Out, I Never Wrote A Great Novel, Sadly, And I Never Converted To Catholicism, Happily, But I Did Do One Thing He Did. That Is, In Middle Age I Moved To A Seaside Town And Got Into A Right Barney With The Local Powers-that-be.

One Christmas Build-up Tradition, However, Has Totally Bypassed Me - That Of Going Up To Town And Doing A Show.

Being A Monarchist - Saying That One Small Group Is Born More Worthy Of Respect Than Another - Is Just As Warped And Strange As Being A Racist.