Diary: Self-isolation is nothing new for this horse owner
April 2, 2020
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The horse passports go into my pocket as I leave the house, just in case I get stopped on my
Diary: Pubs should be dog-friendly – but don’t let it go too far
March 5, 2020
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Sinking up to my shins in mud, I was forced to dig a moat around the horses’ shelter to try
Why I’m hooked on televangelism
January 9, 2020
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When, as deputy prime minister, John Prescott punched a protester during the general election campaign in 2001 it nearly ruined
An epiphany on the motorway
December 5, 2019
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Driving north to my parents’ late at night, I realised there were so many lorries on the road that I
Britain’s anxious state isn’t helped by secularism
October 31, 2019
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Flying back from a late holiday to Greece, I barely held it together, having lost my dear little horse Grace
The dangerous nonsense behind ‘natural horsemanship’
December 20, 2018
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Whenever someone uses the word “natural”, I feel a sense of dread. But nothing puts the wind up me more
Diary: by Melissa Kite
October 11, 2018
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Ageism may be the last great prejudice our society deigns to address, if indeed it ever gets around to it.
Melissa Kite: In praise of boring holidays
July 26, 2018
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Since I began renovating my house, I haven’t been able to afford to go anywhere, exotic or otherwise. “Holidays? Oh,
Diary: by Melissa Kite
June 7, 2018
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Since moving to a picture postcard village in Surrey, I have been inundated with kind invitations. The chairwoman of the
Melissa Kite: The problem with humanist funerals
April 12, 2018
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“Now it is time to say our final goodbyes,” said the humanist funeral celebrant, a sour look on her face.
My best and worst Christmases
December 21, 2017
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This could be the worst one ever, I told myself, terrified, as I dug out a moulded bag of tinsel
Horses and the trouble with neighbours
July 20, 2017
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The last couple who lived in our house got divorced. From moving in as a happy family to selling amid