Regular readers of my columns could be forgiven for thinking that the only Olympic sport I’ve watched so far is gymnastics. That’s not entirely true – I watched the diving, waterpolo and swimming, too – but gymnastics is the only sport whi...

  The copy reads: “Confidence is minimising the negative and emphasising the positive.” If by “negative” you mean “clothes”, and by “positive” you mean “breasts.”

“One of my colleagues proposed to his girlfriend,” a friend of mine told me over dinner last week. “He flew out to surprise her at school, and on the way he stopped off at her parents’ place to ask her father’s permission.” I half-chok...