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How to desperately scrabble to become a national treasure, by Gary Barlow

BEFORE Take That appear at the Coronation Concert next month, frontman and social climber Gary Barlow explains how to constantly attempt to be a national treasure.

Six ways to look a wanker in… a baseball cap

LONG days, crazy nights, the spring sun shining overhead – it’s the perfect time to wanker up by donning the headgear of rahs and chavs! But how to wear it?

Tantric sex: can you even spare the time? asks the Mash sex columnist

FREEING your soul and expanding your consciousness while reaching new heights of sexual pleasure; it sounds alright, but it takes bloody hours.

Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob

PUT your hands inside two Pringles tubes to find out what it’s like being Abu Hamza. This works best if you are extremely bored.

The Archbishop of Canterbury on... the Dalai Lama? Dalai Paedo, more likely

WAKING up slumped over the railings at Buckingham Palace, I blearily recall visiting King Charles to let him know I would not be attending his coronation as I was working the next morning and fancied having Saturday off.

Mash Blind Date: 'What do I do? Recently I've been texting my exes with the less-than-ideal news they might have VD'

MARKETING executive Lucy Parry, 29, is looking for love. STD victim James Bates, 30, is looking for a cream that will make it less painful to urinate. Will romance blossom?

Dead overrated: Is 28 Days Later a bit shit?

THE praise heaped upon 28 Days Later is more appropriate for Danny Boyle actually having invented cinema, not giving zombie films a makeover. Here’s why it’s somewhat overrated.

This week in Mash History: Sigmund Freud sees his mum in the nip, 1866

DID you know Freud’s idea of the Oedipus complex, first introduced in The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899, is the direct result of seeing his mum’s tits?

Their national dish is cheese on bloody toast: The gammon food critic visits Wales

THE wife only booked an Easter break in Wales, didn’t she? Ever the professional, I thought it would give the food critic in me the opportunity to try the local grub. I wish I hadn’t.

Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob

Odd that when Miley Cyrus is listing all the things she can do just as well without a partner in her latest song she leaves out wanking.