Forget the anti-fat/salt propaganda. Fat is fuel and fat is good. Long live salt

Denial of ageing is a massive industry especially in the world's richest country,

The mystery email from Naw Naw and a poem by Robert Graves - what of it, you ask?

I longed so much to play there it was a physical ache, writes cricket fan Joe Bennett.

He only wanted a bottle but the language barrier got in the way...

To bar the door against the storm, light the fire - simple pleasures, writes Joe Bennett.

This screening offer feels like the first step in a long slide, says Joe Bennett.

The essence of golf is to be found in a story from Atlanta, Georgia. It's not flattering.

Laundry is and always has been hard labour, unless you've got a washing machine.

Time, as Einstein observed, is relative. It's also subjective. I'll raise a toast to that.

Author Joe Bennett reflects on the beginnings of his career as a writer.

It has happened again. A few dozen oligarchs stole the nation's wealth for themselves.

'They broke him,' she said. 'Somehow they broke him.'

Verbal cop-out, Clayton's words, a thought you say when you haven't a thought to express?

The ancients, just like us, were pleased by having pictures on the wall.

It's odd we humans have evolved to use and biff and it can't last, writes Joe Bennett.

We've always tried to bash the world into a shape that suits us ...

Basically, it's a Marvel comic that's gained cultural clout from being 3000 years old.

At 16 the end of childhood becomes visible. You've turned puberty's corner...

As Mars is colonised and remade in our image, where are we going to park our fantasies?

More to an old photo than just capturing a moment in time, says Joe Bennett.

He looked to be in his late 20s. So 10 years ago would have been his late teens ...

The show won't die. It will shrivel to a memory and whisper its way up into the rafters.

If there is any point to being on holiday, it's sitting still to watch the world go by...

A friend of mine was driving down this road when the earthquake of 2011 struck.

One week in and the carbs free keto diet's not quite going to plan, writes Joe Bennett.

Is it prophecy to predict an event that happened 60 years ago?

How did the second Covid-19 vaccine recipient get to be named after the Bard?

We like to think that we've evolved beyond the cruelties of the Colosseum, but have we?

To escape gravity's grip for a few bright seconds, writes Joe Bennett.

Into the oven the stainless frying pan went, metal handle and all - what could go wrong?

Are we pragmatic, optimistic fools when it comes to getting from A to B?

Devices fundamental to modern living often frustrate older folk.

On the third day the little one fluttered up off the floor onto the workbench...

In silent movie days the chase involved Charlie Chaplin types but now it's very different.

During the past century or so the suit has shimmied up the social ladder.

Joe Bennett reflects on life: Days come and famously go. And what do they leave behind?

Markets are fundamental to our society and our psyches. Markets are us.

Desire urges us towards something, said Thomas Hobbes, while fear urges us away from it.

The story of power in most places throughout human history is instil fear and rule.

I know, there's no fool like an old fool: "When do we play?"

A typical Nabokov sentence: precise, ornate, exquisitely orchestrated and subtly comic.

How does one answer, "how has your day been so far?"

And yet there are homo sapiens for whom you would quite willingly lay down your life.

Last week the grass felt the stir of the season and grew a foot overnight.

No one over 10 could eat that many chips and after dark there are no seagulls to help.

Five will do, says Joe Bennett. Touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight but are there more?

Warning - don't read this if you are a vegetarian...

There's the fire and the shovelled coal, the boiler of heated water and much more ...

I tried to scream for help. I could only gurgle. The crowd laughed louder ...

Cows promoting yoghurt, Mr Muscle cleaning products, cartoon chickens - it's everywhere.

Time to treat churches as a business and share in the profits, says Joe Bennett.

Is it language's decline that we're bemoaning or our own?

For the moment the US president is in torment and Joe Bennett is rejoicing.

Five years short of critical judgment, a blank slate, a special time in one's life.

In the wild alligators rarely reach age 40. Saturn, by doing nothing, reached twice that.

I'll miss checkouts. They're theatre.

Is it some inverted snobbery, some primitivo chic?

If the days have no names we are lost. No days mean there are no weeks or months or years.

Inter-generational truths preoccupy me, my grandfather and his grandfather and his...

Subsuming individuals into the whole. It's the oldest form of the consolidation of power.

I can think of nowhere else on earth I'd rather be right now.

The internet has many voices. Most had an opinion on sourdough.

It sits as chicks have sat for millennia, waiting to take to the air and feed and mate...

I heard a noise and put my ear to the dish and I swear I heard it crying out for bacon.

It was a great day indeed

Golf and lathes and rowing aren't me but Ralph Waldo Emerson got it right when he said...

The answer has something to do with poetry.

"The grass has seeded, died and withered to straw. It would need only one spark..."

If it is there is no shame in that. There is shame only in pretending it isn't.

Not so the man who just drove up this road aggressively on a thundering monster.

COMMENT: I summoned my few remaining men. They were a sorry sight.

I promised the dog somewhere nice and that's exactly what we got

Do you struggle to choose between yoga and pastrami?

If the drone comes again I shall shoot it.

The country you couldn't fly to, would then become the country everyone wanted to sail to.

For the birds the days pass unnamed, the years uncounted. And this still pleases us today.