Terence Blacker: Facetiousness isn't funny, it's tiresome and irrelevant
07 February 2012 12:00 AM
Most comedians lose the capacity to write sparky, original comedy in middle age
Terence Blacker: Slow down, and the search for happiness might take care of itself
31 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Way We Live: The need for escape helps explain why 'The Artist' is making millions
Terence Blacker: In the age of team-building, we all need solitude more than ever
24 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Way We Live: Our culture may be self-obsessed but, weirdly, it is also one in which the noise of crowds and groups drowns out the unconventional and individual
Terence Blacker: Enough of townie prejudice against the countryside
17 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Way We Live
Terence Blacker: Don't sneer if a Big Mac helps your children read
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
Notebook
Terence Blacker: We're not world class at many things, but looking after animals is one
10 January 2012 12:46 AM
The Way We Live: It's pleasing that British morality can influence tough foreign farmers
Terence Blacker: Things go better with Kate
06 January 2012 12:00 AM
She sprinkles the royal fairy dust with occasional visits and her name on letterheads
Terence Blacker: Match-fixing is a curse the UK invited in
03 January 2012 12:00 AM
Britain is notable for the way it has encouraged gambling over the past 10 years
Terence Blacker: In 2012 cheese-rolling will be introduced as an Olympic sport and Eric Pickles will win Rear of the Year
28 December 2011 12:00 AM
Terence Blacker offers his predictions for the coming year
Terence Blacker: Home-made or just very small? The truth about your Christmas cards
20 December 2011 12:00 AM
The Way We Live: It is a yuletide paradox that you can know someone so well that sending a card is an exercise in futility
Terence Blacker: I lived with cranky legend who changed more lives than the authors he dealt in
16 December 2011 12:00 AM
The writers may soon have returned home but they will have done so with a different view of the world
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