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JetBlue Airways

S Terry Prone: Cabin staff no longer exist to help make your flight enjoyable

Cabin staff no longer exist to help make your flight enjoyable. They’re there to sell you stuff and if you don’t want it, you can shiver right off, so you can.

Mon, 04 Aug, 2025

Terry Prone: Storied minutiae of my past will be an asset to researchers of the future

S Terry Prone: Storied minutiae of my past will be an asset to researchers of the future

Here’s a sentence that I never thought I would write: I have donated my papers to the . Imagine. Such notions.

Mon, 28 Jul, 2025

Terry Prone: Corporate communication axe falls on Coldplay kiss-cam couple

S Terry Prone: Corporate communication axe falls on Coldplay kiss-cam couple

It’s difficult to imagine a public mis-step so spectacular in its reach and damage

Mon, 21 Jul, 2025

Terry Prone - Celebrity Home Of The Year 2016. Photography by Ruth Medjber www.ruthlessimagery.com

Terry Prone: When it comes to woodlice, I’m Albert Pierrepoint — fast and efficient

One of the lesser-known consequences of climate change is that I become a killer during the summer months

Mon, 14 Jul, 2025

Lawrence Durrell

S Terry Prone: Good questions don’t necessarily cut it with a difficult interviewee

Interviewing George Best didn't go too well for Terry Prone as a young journalist but worse was to come with writer Lawrence Durrell

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

Terry Prone: Why the benefits of Vitamin C are not as easy as one, two, three

S Terry Prone: Why the benefits of Vitamin C are not as easy as one, two, three

It’s a much stronger mental and attitudinal tattoo, even, than the 'eight glasses of water a day'

Mon, 30 Jun, 2025

Terry Prone: I get Botox not to look younger but to continue looking like myself

S Terry Prone: I get Botox not to look younger but to continue looking like myself

Botox isn't about denying my age — it's a way of avoiding ending up like a balloon you find under the stairs a fortnight after the party

Mon, 23 Jun, 2025

Teenage Boys Drinking Beer

S Terry Prone: Advertisers pushing boundaries to get their message to consumers

The playbook developed by Big Tobacco is now being used by several industries, including, most notably, the alcohol industry

Mon, 16 Jun, 2025

Unrecognizable health visitor and a senior woman during home visit.

S Terry Prone: Abuse of nursing home patients has been going on for decades

Profit is king when it comes to the running of our nursing homes

Mon, 09 Jun, 2025

KKW Beauty Launches At ULTA Beauty

S Terry Prone: Average-looking women must work twice as hard to be successful

The fifties model of the acceptable woman was limited and limiting. But probably not as limited and limiting as the current decade

Mon, 02 Jun, 2025