Let's move to: Headingley, Leeds
It's a smashing place to live (yes, even with all those students) What's going for it? Rule 456 of successful property buying: go to university. University districts might be full of smelly students, but they are also full of smelly lecturers and academics and people who think they're academics and have money to spend and like bookshops and cafes and nice places to live in; and they're usually a ...

Olivia Colman on winning Best Actress at the Evening Standard Film Awards
Olivia Colman is pretty pleased about winning the Best Actress statuette at last night's Evening Standard Film Awards. Not for herself, you understand, but for the sake of the film. Paddy Considine's directorial debut Tyrannosaur, in which the 38-year-old actress plays a devout charity shop worker serially abused by her husband, is a low-budget, small-scale affair: gritty and harrowing, but with ...

Sarkozy spoke about depression in the morning; I spoke about hope in the afternoon
A walk through the village of the English bard in Stratford inspired this piece. Shakespeare is as relevant today as he was in his time, in our search for love in a world where people have grown cold and the climate is becoming abnormally and dangerously warm.