The new black
Hannah Pool: The cosmetics market can be divided into two sectors: premium and high street. While Asian women have some choice in the premium end, there is nothing for them on the high street.
Frank Honigsbaum
An expert on the National Health Service, he was a leading medical historian who campaigned for reform in Britain and the US.
Here’s looking at you, mate
Mark Turner: There's a peculiar frisson involved when lone men check out other men on the streets of big cities. Gay cruising? Maybe ... but not always.
In his own words: the soldier
Ben Butler: Under fire you've got to be able to rely on the bloke next to you. You put your body on the line knowing that your mate is going to be there for you.
Lipstick on your fella
Why should women have a monopoly on beauty tricks? Male make-up - largely the undetectable kind that takes the average man closer to the chiselled ideal - is now on the market. Our man-in-mascara wore it for a month: on the Tube, in the office, at the pub. Here's his verdict.
Forget new man. Now you’re hetero, retro or metro
But what is a metrosexual - a latter-day dandy, or an altogether new breed of male? Who better to explain than the man who coined the term. Mark Simpson fields questions on the complexities of the new narcissist.
Some of my best friends are women
In an astonishingly candid dissection of his sex life, this successful professional describes the mental storm that seizes hold of him on the point of seduction, and wonders if such potent desires can ever fit in with routine life.