Society

Five distinctly British sexualities that will exist in a year's time

SEXUALITY is a mysterious thing, but society is learning more about it all the time. Here are five uniquely British sexualities that will be identified within 12 months.

'I know, yeah': Six platitudes for when someone shares an opinion you completely disagree with

WE Brits are such a spirited nation that when someone says something objectionable, we keep quiet and bitch about it later. Here are some great cowardly phrases to use. 

Landlord ups rent because why not

A LANDLORD has decided to slap an extra £200 on his tenants’ monthly rent because, at the end of the day, who is going to stop him?

Seven ways to walk past a homeless person without being consumed by middle-class guilt

BEING homeless is incredibly hard - but so is walking past them outside Waitrose. Here’s how to put your class-related guilt to one side and glide past painlessly.

The killjoy realist's guide to why the energy bill drop will make f**k all difference

THRILLED at the idea of energy bills tumbling by the unimaginable sum of £426 a year? Calm down. Miserable realist Martin Bishop explains why it will change nothing.

'I'm a bit overstretched' and other diplomatic ways to say you can't be arsed

BEING asked to do actual work? Then you get home and a friend only wants to go out for a f**king drink? Get out of it with these befogging phrases.

To summon the goddess Eris: the real reasons women go to the bathroom in groups

CURIOUS as to why women scuttle off to the bathroom in groups of eight? Wondering what they really get up to in there? Find out here.

Six luxuries of the poor, from phones to cheese. By Ann Widdecombe

POOR people should not have anything that make life enjoyable, and that includes food. Here is Ann Widdecombe’s guide to what they don’t deserve.

'We're only three hours from London' and other bizarre boasts Northerners make

SALT-of-the-earth Northerners hate showing off. Yeah, right. Here are some of the weirder humblebrags about the North they're inexplicably proud of.

Five professions you're uneasy with being younger than you

FEELING your age? Trying to believe you’re still youthful until you’re forced to interact with these mere children?