COOL: Lager Love

UNCOOL: Dying at your desk

Where more depressing to die than at the office? US series Mad Men sure does give with one hand and takes away with the other… How many of Don Draper’s secretaries have asked him if he’s going to the toilet? How many have called his daughter chubby? How many have been referred to by Cooper […]

COOL: Hed to toe in Kandi

You..mean..wearing..headphones…with a..dress..is…cool? YESH???!!! So what’s on offer? Basically, everything. No, really, everything. Maybe not funeral attire or the outfit of corporate dreams but quite literally anything else. The entire collection’s been designed to make you stand out from the crowd so you can be the one to say “Oh this! I think it was limited […]

COOL: Grandma’s House

I keep meeting people who tell me they haven’t seen Simon Amstell’s new BBC2 sitcom, Grandma’s House, yet. That’s probably because I ask everyone I meet. Say what you like about Amstell; he’s an acerbic, self-obsessed recluse who cheers himself up about having a nose shaped like a penis (his words) by shooting articulate bullets […]

UNCOOL: Me in front of the Crystal Fighters

“Kaydee”, applauded my friend Lionel on our way home after a chaotic club crawl around London. We’d been ‘raving’, apparently. “You can really rock out!” Pleased with myself for managing to impress Lionel – an American cool cat who makes dimples look compulsory and, I imagine, entered my friendship group through a broken window – I used this […]

COOL: Making old clothes look wicked

Bored of walking into charity shops that call themselves ‘vintage’ stores? Me too. Feel like with every purchase a percentage is put towards an entrance fee? Me too. Starting to wonder whether you really want to wear second hand pieces of clothing that invariably reek of hemp and rotting bodies, anyway? Me bloody too!  Sustainable […]

COOL: Filofax is the safest option

For years I've craved a Filofax, but there now, finally, justifiable reasons for me to own one of these straight talking bad-boys. For a start, I’m an adult and that means if I’m to be taken seriously, I need a serious prop.

UNCOOL: Fearne Cotton: WHY?

The UK is currently having a cool moment. Robbie’s rejoined Take That, Samantha Cameron’s given birth to a bouncing baby girl, Cheryl’s going to collapse in next week’s X Factor – that’s exciting – and it turns out the BBC aren’t going to make us wait ages till they show Mad Men series 4 after all […]

COOL: Beatles director bears all

The world’s always rubbing its belly for 60’s relics especially when they’re Beatles related.  And our next feast will be provided by director Richard Lester whose works include A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965). Yep, he was the guy behind two of the best films about a band the world has ever known. […]

COOL: a sexy writing workshop

‘… and as the tepid splats of tea landed on my neck, hands and groin – I realised I was wet – big time.  I was sweating lust. Even my ankles perspired and, were it not for my socks, not slipping over would have been impossible.’ … Gaaaghhh, I can’t do it. No matter how […]