Gaby Hinsliff



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 * Furious rail commuters are switching their targets - Anger is moving from companies to politicians - 3rd January 2014
 * 2014: the year we don’t need to be right - 26th December 2013
 * One whiff of turps reminds me of my father - Dads are role models for girls as well as boys - 20th December 2013
 * The cloud with a silver lining – but only for men - Recessions discriminate against women - 13th December 2013
 * Cheaper gas bills are cold comfort for rural folk - Notebook - 6th December 2013
 * Drops in the deep, dark ocean of loneliness - Ways to stop the effects of isolation; lazy accusations; tigers for tea - 29th November
 * Would we have cared if gin was the Rev’s poison? - Notebook - 22nd November 2013
 * Charles has never seemed more complete - Happily married, the heir to the throne has intellectual freedom to support the causes that matter to him - 16th November 2013
 * Mystique of the power couple still intrigues - Notebook - 15th November 2013
 * Off the peg, get your old-style Britain here - M&S is the answer to some of our most pressing questions - 8th November 2013
 * Mentally ill people aren’t Hallowe’en bogeymen - How can supermarkets stock these bizarre costumes? - 1st November 2013
 * Ahem. I’d just like to congratulate my bank - Notebook - 25th October 2013
 * Jeremy Hunt misses the real NHS challenge - Crackdowns on health tourism won’t prevent a crisis on A&E wards this winter - 23rd October 2013
 * Not all of our future is written in our genes - Notebook - 18th October 2013
 * Why Eric Pickles is the god of small things - Notebook - 11th October 2013
 * It's not sexy, but frailty in old age is a feminist issue too - We talk about Miley Cyrus, Botox and dating, but we should be far angrier about the crisis over long-term care of the elderly - 10th October 2013
 * Here’s the reason why the PM may lack vision - Notebook - 4th October 2013
 * Did McBride ensure that Ed became leader? - 27th September 2013
 * While you’re at it, got any other freebies? - Giving away free school lunches must mean austerity’s over - 20th September 2013
 * Newsnight shouldn’t be Snoozenight for politics - Notebook - 13th September 2013
 * Forget the BBC, unions, civil servants. The cause of Tory fury is other Tories - Once Cameron charmed his critics, but now his government lashes out – enraged by its failure to control its own party - 9th September 2013
 * Today’s baby boom is the crime wave of tomorrow - Notebook - 6th September 2013
 * Fair is only fair when we are not losing out - Notebook: Few concepts in public life are more slippery - 16th August
 * Tell the truth: the NHS will soon be bust - There’s no end to medical advances and their astronomical costs. The trouble is, we can’t possibly afford them - 14th August 2013
 * Enough dithering: now it's time Labour jumped into action - Ed Miliband's priority must be to grab the initiative on issues that his party virtually owned a couple of years ago - 11th August 2013
 * Forget alien horror: now Titanic hits the fatberg - Notebook: what a metaphor for our lard-rich, time-poor modern lifestyles - 9th August 2013
 * Why we can’t see the risks of monkey business - Notebook: A lesson from Longleat for Anthony Weiner - 2nd August 2013
 * The Beano shouldn’t try to be all grown-up - Notebook: I shouldn’t have to explain the jokes to my six-year-old - 26th July 2013
 * No sneering at Baby Cambridge parties, please - US-style proms and baby showers may seem vulgar, but we are showing off our relief at avoiding personal disaster - 22nd July 2013
 * If children are ranked, will their parents cope? - Notebook: There will be tears if it turns out little Emily isn’t a genius - 19th July 2013
 * Ghosts of the bad old days sit on the benches - Notebook: Hague should have known better - 12th July 2013
 * Interested in politics? We must have been barmy - Notebook: my non-pink mobile phone cover; my non-hallucinatory experiment - 5th July 2013
 * Build, build, build! Or rather, how dare you? - Notebook: a battle with my inner Nimby - 28th June
 * Sorry, but it seems my hens are just dumb clucks - Notebook: Clever chickens? Not in my henhouse - 21st June 2013
 * Good on the ‘wimp’ for thinking of the family - Notebook: Tom Harris’s resignation; Viv Groskop’s ambition; entranced by radio - 14th June
 * We’ve made it so easy for the data snoopers - The Prism furore is not just about civil liberties. Think how willingly we trade personal information for convenience - 10th June 2013
 * Give me the politics of hope, not of maths - All those stats kill ideas and argument - 7th June 2013
 * Lads’ mags are the wrong target for feminists - Top-shelf magazines no longer surf the wave of oversexed popular culture but drown in it - 29th May 2013
 * George Osborne may not be dead in the water after all. What will Labour do then? - The IMF may today deliver good(ish) news on the economy. Even a fake recovery would be bad news for the two Eds - 22nd May 2013
 * Parents, not policy, help children to climb the social ladder - We must find the missing piece of the social jigsaw - 18th May 2013
 * It’s hard to tell jihad from immature rage - The Boston bombers may have been driven more by a warped desire for notoriety than by real fanaticism - 22nd April 2013
 * George Osborne's sugar pills won't heal the pain, but Julia Gillard's may - The placebo effect has its place beyond medicine – as long as those who soothe us do so with our best interests at heart - 22nd March 2013
 * Cameron may last even as he leads his MPs to their doom - Tory backbenchers fear a repeat of 1997 at the next election. But that doesn't mean any of them have the courage to act on it - 11th March 2013
 * Scrap ‘marital coercion’, this ridiculous relic - Vicky Pryce was a free agent and the author of her own downfall, not a smart-suited victim - 8th March 2013
 * What Nick Clegg doesn't know can still get him into trouble - The Lib Dems' handling of harassment claims has so far been shameful. Their inquiries had best follow their brief – and dig - 25th February 2013
 * Let’s stop pretending that IVF is a luxury - The failure to conceive is not about career women who left it too late. It’s about money and the ache for a baby - 21st February 2013
 * The key to the Eastleigh byelection is forget Chris Huhne and think of Crewe - Don't expect a verdict on political trust or Cameron as a leader. Eastleigh reminds me of a very different byelection in 2008 - 10th February 2013
 * David Cameron may live to regret his backing for George Osborne - By declaring his support until 2015, the PM has narrowed his options and risks energising his enemies within the party - 4th February 2013
 * What ties David Cameron's EU policy to his stirring words on Algeria? Impatience - Pick a fight in Brussels, send in a taskforce, shake it all up – on foreign policy Cameron's like a bull in a china shop - 21st January 2013
 * Britain's new working-class pride could be a bonus for Labour - That 60% of Britons claim to be proletarian reflects a fear that the Tories have broken a promise on rewarding hard work - 14th January 2013
 * The logic of David Cameron's cry for optimism is: vote Labour - It's tempting to side with conservative Eeyores. But from peace in Ulster to US healthcare, the case for progressive politics is clear - 4th January 2013
 * This lily-livered marriage bill must make room for all of us - Gay people are still being denied marriage, while straight people are deserting it in droves. The institution itself is a mess - 12th December 2012
 * The elastic middle has to be defined, once and for all - Politicians should be clear about who is really struggling. It's not those who have been forced to kick their Waitrose habits - 18th September 2012
 * Could the Hillsborough lies ever happen again? - The most corrosive effect of the conviction that we don't get the truth out of those in power is that it breeds a refusal to listen - 11th September 2012
 * The private picture isn’t always most revealing - It’s a myth that personal stories tell us the ‘truth’ about public figures. Who cares that Ed Balls is good with cakes? - 25th August 2012
 * Fixing Britain's work ethic is not the answer to this economic mess - It suits the Tory austerity narrative to blame 'idle' Britons for the recession rather than flaws in the modern labour market - 20th August 2012
 * The lessons of Louise Mensch's departure? There are none - The demands of the MP's job and her transatlantic marriage bear almost no relation to those of the average working mother - 7th August 2012
 * Ed Miliband, you stoke this anti-Europe fire at your peril - A referendum on EU membership will tempt the Labour leader. But a yes campaign would be short of arguments - 21st May 2012
 * Can Jon Cruddas start the right arguments to get Labour elected? - As Labour's new policy supremo, leftwinger Cruddas must formulate a coherent programme for the squeezed middle - 16th May 2012
 * Leveson asks why, not just how - This new phase of the inquiry may help to explain why things went so wrong - and particularly why now - 22nd April 2012
 * A conservatory tax is only the start of the conversation - Conserving water and fuel isn't a vote-winner, but politicians can't afford to be coy about our reckless guzzling - 10th April 2012
 * Labour can't simply jeer at the Conservatives' weaknesses - Bradford West showed too many people think too little changed under Labour. David Cameron isn't the only one out of touch - 1st April 2012
 * Shame works on bankers, MPs and tabloids, however immune they seem - Closing tax loopholes is more than token banker-bashing. Small gestures can shake up cosy elites - 28th February 2012
 * David Cameron may aim for the stars, but he's failing to shine - The PM should take a leaf out of Alex Salmond's book. Unlike the Scottish leader, it's hard to see quite where he's heading - 12th February 2012
 * Chris Huhne's resignation: the destructive result of love turned sour - Huhne made himself vulnerable to his enemies the minute he left his wife for his mistress. It's a curiously undignified way to go - 3rd February 2012
 * Tory feminists: the true blue sisterhood - Who says feminists can only be leftwing? An influential group of Conservative women MPs are increasingly vocal about the need to tackle gender equality. With radical views on parenting and work, can free-market feminism leave its mark? - 8th January 2012



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