Sooner or later, and usually sooner, every man of my vintage has had to pose himself the key existential question: Am I a mod or a rocker?

As far as we know, James Bond never had children. Though he often found himself tied up, he always managed to avoid getting tied down.

There was once a time when English football boasted two such fine goalkeepers that the England management was not sure which one to put in the side.

There’s a lot to be said for the look of a car. Tearful poems could be written, if you were that way inclined, and epic soliloquies performed.

What works between the sheets doesn’t necessarily deliver on the streets. Or should that be the other way round?

Andrew Anthony looks at the many social gaffes awaiting the unwary diner, such as how to unravel a menu.