Published in the Independent 27th May 1998 We didn’t wait for Bob Dole to say Viagra had put new life into his erection campaign. As soon as we heard American men were queuing to fill their Viagra prescriptions, the effect in this country was instantaneous. Computer pros scoured...
Commissioned by the Daily Mail 25th May 1998 Pop history says my generation spent the entire decade of the 60s dropping acid and our trousers. It’s a lie. I left my tough West Midlands comprehensive in 1964 - there were no drugs of any type on the school...
Published The Independent 16TH January 1998 The poet John Betjeman suffered (“My sex is no longer rampant”). Sir Anthony Buck apparently suffered “It took two years for the marriage to be consummated to wife Bienvenida”). Even James Bond has suffered “For an hour in that room...
Published in the Daily Express May 16th 1995 Once upon a time, I actually played cricket against Imran Khan. He was possibly the wisest bowler ever to demolish my middle stump. I swear he could make balls swing in three separate directions at the same time. But not...
Published TV Quick 25th September 1991 Why do people have long-term affairs when they're already "comfortably" married to somebody else? This steamy question arises from the new BBC2 serial The Men's Room starring Harriet Walter and Bill Nighy. We can all probably understand a night of passion,...
Commissioned by the Daily Mail - 19th June 1991 If you had a terrible personal problem would you ask Margaret Cook to help? This week, the Foreign Secretary's ex-wife embarks on a new career as an advice columnist. Here, the experienced agony uncle Phillip Hodson imagines...
Published in the Independent July 20th 1988 The question is:- how far does Dan Ackroyd's new film Couch Trip about a Los Angeles radio sex therapist compare with my own experience as an agony uncle coping with London's neuroses five times a week on air at LBC? Let...
Published: The Observer 9th September 1979 Each year thousands make the pilgrimage to Bayreuth for the Wagner Festival. This year Phillip Hodson joined in Wagnermania. The aggregate singing time for the four operas of Wagner’s ‘Ring’ – which for the audience is also the sitting time...
Published in the Guardian November 3rd 1977 You know, of course, that live babies have to be registered at birth. It’s a happy moment. I saw such a happy moment on Tuesday, when the mother swung her pram into Hammersmith Register Office, asked the porter to...
My first ever national newspaper article – published in The Times February 14th 1974 Every weekday morning I cycle six and a half miles from Islington, where I live, to Fulham, where I work, and every weekday afternoon I cycle six and a half miles home....