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Mash Blind Date: 'If she finds out I'm a single father of five this date is f**ked'

JULIAN Cook, aged 46, is a knackered dad of five children. 38-year-old Lauren Hewitt lives alone in a flat with a washing machine not permanently full of PE kit. Can it work?

Your astrological week ahead for October 11th, with Psychic Bob

So now you’ve met the PinkPantheress, the rinky-dink Pantheress, have you ever met a Pantheress whose songs were so short?

The Archbishop of Canterbury on… Robert Jenrick, bigoted as a man twice his age

WAKING with a hangover so intense my head is glowing green and I can actually see my skull when I look in the mirror, I drink an entire fish tank of water to rehydrate and reflect on my week. 

Behind enemy lines: The gammon food critic's German city break

TIME for a city break. I'm no lover of the Hun, but I keep hearing good things about Berlin. So not being one to harp on about the fact that we kicked their arses twice at World Wars, I'm giving it a go.

How to ruin a perfectly good shag by getting emotional, with the Mash sex columnist

IT’S real, it’s here, it’s happening and you’re about to get some, and now you’re going to ruin the moment by bringing feelings into it?

Your astrological week ahead for October 4th, with Psychic Bob

Jon Bon Jovi, singer of Bon Jovi, had no idea he had named his band after himself. ‘F**k me,’ he said, ‘you’re right.’

The Archbishop of Canterbury on… Pete Hegseth: 'So are you fat bastards on board with a coup?'

WAKING with a hangover that leaves me reluctant to excrete lest I void not just my bowels but also my abdomen of vital organs, I reflect on another week in my stewardship of the church.

A white home counties roadman gets dissed by a wasteman supply teacher

WAGWAN? Man ‘as been in turbo-turmoil dis week, fam. Active J wanted man’s peng form teacher Miss Jackson to see him’s new trim wiv slightly more fade but her did not come in.

This week in Mash History: Agatha Christie decides there's no reason murder can't take place somewhere lovely, 1920

MURDER. Once it was an ugly word, referring to vile acts that took place in filthy alleys and the homes of the destitute that it was besmirching to even read about.

Your astrological week ahead for September 27th, with Psychic Bob

Jarvis Cocker really should have changed the lyrics of Disco 2000 to the past tense.