This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 3rd June 2018: The New I Do – By Paige Nick Is marriage the new rhino in the room? Could it be completely extinct within the next couple of years? If we can wipe out a whole species in a couple of generations, I see no…
Does the Royal Family have a family WhatsApp group?
This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 27th May, 2018 THE ROYAL FAMILY WHATSAPP GROUP – By Paige Nick Do you think the royal family also has a mad, dysfunctional family WhatsApp Group, like the rest of us? Who gets to be on it, and how extended does it get? Blood only, or…
Jim Crace Review
this first appeared in the Sunday Times on 23rd April 2018: SUNDAY TIMES – JIM CRACE – THE MELODY (Picador, 2018) By Paige Nick After his Booker-nominated Harvest (Picador, 2013), Jim Crace was never going to write another novel, until three things happened. The first in India, in a luxury hotel where security kept the…
Man Sells Himself (Sunday Times)
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 8th April, 2018: SUNDAY TIMES – The Man Who Sold Himself By Paige Nick In 2008, Mike Merrill sold his body for a dollar for the first time. Over the next ten years he would sell it many more times. Only not in the dodgy way you…
Down with fairytales
This column first appeared in the Sunday Times Lifestyle on 4th Feb 2018 4 FEBRUARY 2018 – VALENTINE’S DAY COLUMN WHAT IS LOVE? By Paige Nick “What do I know about love? How am I supposed to write about it?” I whined to my partner the other night, after being invited to write this column…
Wanted: good self-help books about sex
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 7th January 2018, in a slightly condensed form. Paige Nick discovers it’s trickier to be a sex therapist than a sex columnist WANTED: Good self-help books about sex Guy* thinks his wife is cheating. I know this because he read my column a few weeks ago and…
Disappearing act
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 17th December 2017 THE GREAT DISAPPEARING ACT – By Paige Nick Have you ever driven past an off-ramp and thought, what if I just took that exit and kept on driving? People do it all the time, especially at this time of year; tired, gatvol and…
Sex columnists don’t drop their knickers on request
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 10th December 2017 THE FRIEND REQUEST – By Paige Nick HIM: Hello Paige, how are you? Shot for accepting my friend request, will be grand to read more of you. ME: Very kind of you to say, thank you for reading me. HIM: Keep it coming Missus….
Tis the season to love-hate
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times Lifestyle on 3rd December 2017 HOLIDAY TAX – by Paige Nick So you’re finally going to get a holiday, after this brutal, thankless, long, hard, downgraded, redheaded step-child of a slog of a year, in which we’ve all earned less, and worked more, unless you’re a Zupta,…
‘Booked up’ by Zapiro
Career bucket lists; for some people it’s meeting the queen, or winning an award, or earning a lot of money. I’ve got to say, featuring in a Zapiro cartoon is very high on mine. Screw the queen (not Freddie Mercury and Brian May, the other one). All the kudos to Karin Barry-McCormack for the killer,…