Melissa Kite

They say ignorance is bliss and I’m starting to believe it. For a journ-alist by trade, this is a humiliating volte face. I always...

When was the last time you told a lie? Honestly, think about it. Perhaps you told a lie without even thinking you were lying,...

While I wait for my house sale to go through, I am staying with a friend in the country. He and I have been...

Coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous. I’ve always liked that saying. Whenever an atheist assaults me with the usual lament – “If God...

“Let me get this straight,” I said to the mortgage broker. “In order to borrow less, I have to earn more?” That was, she...

Over French cuisine in a very fancy Birmingham restaurant, I got chatting with a former Tory minister at a Brexit dinner. I had been...

Six months into marketing my flat, I can no longer bear to read the feedback from viewings. This is because I have had a...

Whichever result we have woken up to this morning, the EU referendum has been a campaign that has set neighbour against neighbour. How the...

Our connection to the virtual is now more immediate to us than what is happening in the real world around us. This was proved...

The scare tactics of the EU referendum campaign have left me curiously unmoved. Those who insist it will be “apocalypse now” if we dare...