Lana Del Rey has just released her latest single, the fantastically titled ‘hope is dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it’. With a host of lyrical references to everything from Sylvia Plath to the iPad, the track is…

So this girl sent me a friend request on Facebook a couple of weeks ago and I was thinking that maybe our children could play tennis. Well, not necessarily tennis, but one of those sports that's a bit alternative but still mainstream enough…

“No, no, no. You need to fill out form 207B and bring it to reception.” “But, this is form 207B? It says it here at the top?” “No, what you’ve got here is form 207b. See it’s got a lower-case b. You need to get 207B, capital B, and bring it…

I enter the doctor’s office with all the energy of a bag of paraplegic snails. I incline my decaying body forwards, approaching the sickeningly chipper receptionist at a forty-five degree angle. Leaning in close, I offer up my name, hushed…