Short and sweet, here are the pressing issues (well, some of them) for your Agony Uncle this week.  Oh, and if you like these shorts, you can buy them here from ASOS. Today is Friday the 13th, what should or shouldn’t I be doing? Are you worried or do you not care? Kennedy, Twitter Make yourself a [...]

It’s the Australian Football League’s night of nights. A week shy of the Grand Final, the nation—or at least the sport-loving, pie-eating, beer-swilling cohort—holds its breath to find out who has been named the year’s best-and-fairest player. Yet it’s not the mystery surrounding who will be adorned with the French navy blue sash and medal [...]

Short and sweet, here are the pressing issues (well, some of them) for your Agony Uncle this week. Oh, and if you like these women’s leather shorts, you can buy them here, or if you like these men’s chino shorts, you can buy them here, both from ASOS. Why do people think it’s okay to [...]

So I’m a bit of a bandit for homewares and a stickler for proper deportment so when both are combined I think I might just explode! Artist Emma Houlston has created a set of plates for design collective,  Narrative entitled ‘Harrow Ladies Luncheon Club’ that are illustrated with lessons in good table manners from stern-looking matriarchs. According to Houlston, [...]

United States President Barack Obama has caused a storm in a Japanese earthenware cup for a breach of imperial protocol. When meeting Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan at the weekend, President Obama bowed deeply while shaking hands with the Emperor, considered a major faux pas in Japanese bowing etiquette. The affair is reminiscent of [...]

Last night was the premiere episode of the second season of Aussie Ladette to Lady; or quite simply, the best reality show ever invented. For the uninitiated, eight incredibly uncouth, brash and despicable young women, or ‘ladettes’ to which they are referred, descend upon a British finishing school to be whipped into shape by the militant [...]