Fay Yarrow

I started leaving my phone in another room and I feel slightly deranged about how much better it is. That cannot be righ…

The distance is the whole trick. Same room and in a drawer does nothing; different room and it is like the day got longer.

Weddings have got completely out of hand and everybody involved seems to be having a worse time than they would at a dec…

Ours was enormous and it was the best day of my life. This complaint is always made by guests and never by anyone who has actually had one.

Nobody knows their neighbours and everybody says they would like to, which suggests the barrier is not that we do not wa…

It is that the first move is excruciating and there is no format for it any more. Every generation before us had one and did not have to invent it.

Term limits, everywhere, no exceptions. Nobody should be able to build a forty-year career out of a job that was meant t…

Term limits hand the institutional memory to lobbyists and civil servants, who have no limits at all. You have not removed the career, you have moved it somewhere unelected.

Most political arguments look like disagreements about facts and are really disagreements about what matters. The first …

It depends on the question. Tax rates are values. Whether a policy worked is a fact, and that one is settleable and rarely settled.