Tanya Gold



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Full name: Tanya Gold

Area of interest: Culture, lifestyle, celebrity

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian | The Sunday Times | The Independent

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Articles: 2016

 * No, the royal yacht Britannia should not rise again. Let’s sink that idea completely - We’d be fools to recommission the boat that became the symbol of imperial decline. Nostalgia will not calm the choppy post-Brexit waters - 22nd September
 * What's the point of revisiting a lost love - To cling to old lovers merely compounds pain - and is jolly rude to the person you've ended up with - 26th March



Articles: 2015

 * Jack the Ripper’s just knifed the women’s museum. Don’t dial 999 - Speakeasy: On Tuesday the "first women’s museum in the UK" was due to open on Cable Street, east... - 2nd August
 * Down at the red carpet zoo, the actor species ruffles its preposterous plumage - Speakeasy: At this time of year, which is called Red Carpet Season in media circles, and encompasses the... - 18th January



Articles: 2014

 * Your prose pirouettes turn my head, Mr Amis, but it’s not true love - Speakeasy: On my bedside table are The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn.. - 30th November
 * Oh my lords, it’s Lady Disco Bubbles and Baron Spearmint Rhino - John Buttifant Sewel, or Baron Sewel, is an academic and a member of the House of Lords - 10th August
 * Cameron's FGM drive cannot obscure his dismal record on vulnerable women - If he believes in women's rights, why has he decimated rape counselling and domestic violence services? - 24th July
 * The problem of Catherine Cambridge's womb watchers - Kate may not mind having her fertility pored over as the media speculates over a possible pregnancy, but it debases all women - 17th July
 * Harriet Harman's real sin is ambition - The poisonous backlash to her speech proved her point – that sexism is alive and kicking in Westminster politics - 10th July
 * The horror of Tuam's missing babies is not diminished by misreported details - Tuam's mothers and the unhappily pregnant today are not unconnected. It is time for Ireland to liberalise its abortion laws - 5th July
 * My lesson in charity - When a Big Issue seller snubbed my gift I felt anger. But why should she be dependent on the whims of a stranger? - 26th June
 * Obesity is not a disability - Overeating is an addiction – if the EU court labels it otherwise, it will be a monumental act of denial - 12th June
 * London's restaurants: a grotesque display of opulence - In the naked fetishisation of wealth that dominates the capital's most fashionable eating places there are no critics - 5th June
 * Le Dorchester boycott? C'est en vogue! - US Vogue editor Anna Wintour is refusing to stay at a five-star Paris hotel. And so the fashion revolution begins … - 29th May
 * How materialism makes us sad - The more we spend on unnecessary things, the less happy we are. Can this explain why affluent politicians insist on taking from the poor? - 7th May
 * Legalising the sex trade means state-approved, monetised gangbangs - Rupert Everett wants to legalise prostitution, but countries that have done so often uncover new, unexpected problems - 1st May
 * Climbing Everest is the peak of hubris - With Sherpas treated like pack animals by the cretinous rich, the crisis of the world's highest mountain was inevitable - 24th April
 * Britain may have a sexist culture – but at least it's British sexism, eh? - Daring to critique Britain saw UN special rapporteur Rashida Manjoo buried under a deluge of ageism, racism and misogyny - 17th April
 * For Peaches Geldof: a gruesome grunt of synthetic grief - Peaches Geldof has died a digital death. But she knew too well how we all so enjoy a celebrity downfall - 9th April
 * Celebrity endorsement like Angelina Jolie's is the curse of good causes - The world in which Jolie leads the campaign against rape is a dystopia, seething with hypocrisy and soaked in vanity - 2nd April
 * The prison book ban will cause a real catch-22 - Chris Grayling's restriction on prisoners' reading material will spark a vicious cycle where they'll likely earn less too - 27th March
 * If fashion is your primary means of expression, I pity you - Vogue's editor says she is bored by questions about thin models. But then, she's selling clothes for a misogynistic industry - 20th March
 * After Benefits Street, it's another round of poverty porn – with added celebrity - A new BBC documentary looks set to be yet another dehumanising foray into poor people's lives - 6th March
 * Why we can't talk about breastfeeding - Why does breastfeeding, like so many other debates about motherhood, attract such abusive hyperbole? - 9th January



Articles: 2013

 * Today's response to the Roma is a slur from the past - On a visit to Yad Vashem, the consequences of continuing to demonise the ancient scapegoats of Europe were all too clear to me - 26th December
 * The vitriol aimed at Jack Monroe says much more about her attackers - The Tories and their supporters in the press expect people in poverty to accept their fate – and never talk back - 21st December
 * The Profumo affair: where is the redemption of Christine Keeler? - As the campaign to rehabilitate Stephen Ward gathers pace, why does Christine Keeler still remain, in her words, 'a dirty joke'? - 5th December
 * What Paul Flowers and Nigella Lawson can tell us about addiction - These allegations should remind us that addiction is no respecter of class, money or beauty - 28th November
 * Why do Gulf tyrannies want princesses teaching strangers to eat a sandwich? - The London season, in which debutantes curtsied to cakes, has reanimated itself in Dubai. It is the revenge of new money on old - 21st November
 * Many unhappy returns, Prince Charles - The poor Prince of Wales is not even allowed to indulge the Oedipal fury of his predecessors. Welcome to the tragedie of King Charles III - 14th November
 * Why do so many women hate Gwyneth Paltrow? - Vanity Fair's attack reflects a wider loathing, but at least the actor is brave enough to venture beyond Hollywood's accepted script for women - 6th November
 * Not even Jane Austen is safe from the reach of the airbrush - Apparently being a much-loved author isn't enough to merit a spot on the £10 note – you still need to be pretty as well - 1st November
 * Have Tory MPs learned nothing of the consequences of casual rudeness? - When Daniel Kawczynski told a one-legged beggar to get a job he seemed to have forgotten his party has cut disabled benefits - 23rd October
 * Boris Johnson: the bald truth - The London mayor is a narcissist whose hair is crucial to his prime ministerial ambitions. But he's losing both - 16th October
 * Nothing's changed – the royals still grow fatter each year at our expense - Ignore this democratisation nonsense. When the Queen's money man faces the public accounts committee, it will be clear that royal 'value for money' is a red herring - 10th October
 * This Tory tax allowance is just a marriage of convenience - The party's real motive is to create a synthetic hierarchy of morals, and reward or punish people accordingly - 30th September
 * Europe's treatment of asylum seekers is driven by fear of the unfortunate - Violence against migrants is on the rise. Why are the privileged so scared of those in need? - 12th August
 * Our pity for child victims must also extend to the ones that survive - If the child victims grow up – with all the scars and struggles needed to survive – the story changes and we ignore them - 5th August
 * How do we tackle online rape threats? - Misogynists on Twitter should be shamed, rather than criminalised – it's not only the vicious who have a voice - 29th July
 * How schools prepare girls for a life of baking and Botox - Schoolgirls are rewarded for being neat, polite, humble and compliant. This helps them do well – until they enter the workplace - 22nd July
 * We should mock our politicans only after we've examined their policies - The politics of fury and disenchantment must not be based on ignorance, otherwise we will destroy our own society - 15th July
 * The triumph of Andy Murray. The taunting of Marion Bartoli - John Inverdale's moronic musing on the 'looks' of the women's champion was, oddly, not matched by any word on the Scotsman's nose - 8th July
 * Who owns patriotism? - People count, not battles – yet the right, looking back in wonder, seems only to love only a sliver of Britain - 1st July
 * The UK's young princes are a gift to republicans - Queen Elizabeth is a problem for anti-monarchists. Her grandchildren will make our lives easier - 24th June 2013
 * A baying mob of MPs shows Westminster is rotten to the core - Despite David Cameron's promise to end 'Punch and Judy' politics, it remains as cruel as ever and a political turn-off - 17th June 2013
 * I am silenced by the tyranny of impending motherhood - A ruling on Iraqi deaths in British custody offers the chance for a brand new approach to troops' behaviour abroad - 10th June 2013
 * We pay a high price for plutocrats - As the rich lunge for their tax havens, the wages of their greed can be seen in extremism and social unrest - 3rd June 2013
 * British monarchy is an invocation of a reactionary past - As more royal pageantry looms, it's time to ask: does the Queen do the country more harm than good? - 26th May 2013
 * Bridezilla is a monster that still needs slaying - Despite Keira Knightley's recycled wedding dress, the Bridezilla myth lives on to taunt a woman on the happiest day of her life - 13th May 2013
 * Death is tobacco companies' business - You can't blame tobacco firms for resisting plain packaging. But what's the government's excuse? - 6th May 2013
 * Feminism now seems ubiquitous – and irrelevant. That's the test for Spare Rib - Radical in the 1970s, Spare Rib is being relaunched into a world in which feminism has become too personal - 29th April 2013
 * The anti-abortion lobby is barbaric - Everywhere in America, anti-abortionists imperil women's lives. We must stop it happening here too - 22nd April 2013
 * Say hello to zero hours, kiss goodbye to workers' rights - Our labour market looks more and more like The Apprentice: sixteen people chasing after every fantasy job going - 15th April 2013
 * Britain: for hard workers only. If you can find a job - Both the government and Labour are committed to making work pay. Meanwhile the poor get bashed again - 8th April 2013
 * The secular must accept that religion can save - The religious have to understand, likewise, that not to rule outright is not about prejudice; and not to believe is not madness - 1st April 2013
 * The Tory view of the state: those who need it don't deserve it - This is a rehearsal for the future of the welfare state. The Conservatives' narrative is that poverty is sinful and it must be punished - 25th March 2013
 * Porn is like meat. Ask how it is made before consuming it - On the issue of porn, I'm with the Saudi Arabians: the freedom to watch a woman gag on a penis is not one I cherish - 18th March 2013
 * The Tory female vote is like the Thatcher statue: headless, in a box - From Eastleigh to Grantham, the Tories' problem with women is becoming ever more apparent, and women voters are falling away - 18th February 2013
 * The metamorphosis of Mr Fox - Now a fox has attacked a baby, our view of them – vulpine princess or urban great white – is ever more confused - 11th February 2013
 * Now the public school elite wants even victimhood for itself - The British public school, historically so dedicated to repressing emotion, has become hysterical. It's Self-piteous Anonymous - 2nd February 2013
 * Joanna Lumley is foolish for laying rape at drunken feet - National treasure or not, it is an old, pernicious and class-ridden taunt to insist it's up to women to avoid their attackers - 26th January 2013
 * Horse burgers should have us all weeping in the aisles - The supermarkets are not the victims in this scandal – with false smells and tastes they've made us lose touch with what we eat - 19th January 2013
 * Britain's voodoo monarchy - The succession bill puts a ludicrous spin of equality on an institution that's inherently unequal - 12th january 2013
 * Fat chance of the Tories humiliating the real culprits - Plans to withhold benefits from obese people unless they go to the gym sit awkwardly alongside tax breaks for the rich - 5th January 2013



Articles: 2012

 * New Year honours are little more than postcard pomp - Our system for rewarding public service is an absurd hangover from feudal times. The status it bestows is meaningless - 29th December 2012
 * Romeo Beckham in Burberry: a poor Christmas gift for any child - What a strange parable of parenting, fashion and fame, as the Beckhams use their son to validate their own barmy choices - 22nd December 2012
 * Maria Miller's woeful tale may have saved journalism - The inept effort by spin doctors to intimidate the Telegraph over the expenses story has shown the need for a free press - 15th December 2012
 * Burning down Eton won't end the miseries of an unfair society - All the miseries of an unfair society can't be soothed by burning down one school. Its dominance is merely a symptom - 23rd November 2012
 * Twilight is not feminist: it's female masochism - This saga is a teen version of Fifty Shades of Grey and illustrates the growth of the loving-slave fantasy in popular fiction - 17th November 2012
 * Nadine Dorries's jungle jaunt simply distracts from real scandal - Going on reality TV is mere idiocy. A political system friendly to corruption is what we should be worrying about - 10th November 2012
 * The nasty babble which stigmatises depression - Mental health debate is like a pre-Enlightenment scream in its ignorance. Will Ed Miliband's words have any effect? - 3rd November 2012
 * Revisiting Savile, the woman hater lurking under my bed - I met Jimmy Savile six years ago. Top of the Pops had come to an end and the newspaper I then worked for wanted to know what he, its first presenter, thought about it - 27th October 2012
 * Too much poverty and joblessness? Blame the newborn babies - Child poverty costs the UK £25bn a year. Limiting child benefit to two kids will save £200m. If this sounds like madness, it is - 27th October 2012
 * These fondant fancies are baking little girls of us all - Take a closer look at Downton and the Great British Bake Off and think again if Britain is a progressive country - 20th October 2012
 * The Tories can't win without women, so why the disdain? - Between crass rhetoric and painful economic reality, the gains of the last 30 years are in danger of turning to dust - 13th October 2012
 * Maria Miller, a very modern feminist? Don't make me laugh - The minister for women lacks the courage to be pro-life, but can't understand why less privileged women choose abortion - 6th October 2012
 * Ed Miliband is a worthy inheritor of Disraeli's creed - David Cameron may try to steal the 'one nation' ideal back next week. Yet he chose not to learn from his reforming predecessor - 3rd October 2012
 * Kelvin MacKenzie destroyed his own reputation years before Hillsborough - Tabloids can produce great journalism. But this former Sun editor did more to corrupt political debate than anyone - 28th September 2012
 * Morally repugnant tax avoiders can rest easy under David Cameron - With insane hubris, a few treaties and a lot of money moving from tax haven to tax haven is called a success - 22nd September 2012
 * These photos of Kate will only add to the myth of monarchy - It is a love of sorts. The worst nightmare for the royals is indifference. Fascination, no matter how squalid, is essential - 15th September 2012
 * More lollipop ladies won't save the honours system - Honours is a hierarchy of gifts that's little more than a stroking mechanism for plutocrats and colleagues of Bruce Forsyth - 1st September 2012
 * Britons are masters at class denial and what it means. Where is the anger? - The poor die younger and are getting poorer – and we're happily buying into the propaganda that they somehow deserve it - 25th August 2012
 * Have you heard the one about rape? It's funny now - The misogyny all over the Edinburgh comedy festival isn't comedy, but rage in disguise - 18th August 2012
 * More young, strong women: that would be an Olympic legacy to be proud of - Women's success at the Olympic Games gives us a golden chance to make huge strides against sexism - 11th August 2012
 * This plastic bag conspiracy is a truly deadly distraction - The warm glow we get from using fewer carrier bags to ferry our vegetables about will not save us from disasters to come - 4th August 2012
 * London 2012: welcome to the Idiot Games, where our leaders do battle - Limo wars, flag wars, logo wars – Britain is playing host to one giant sports day for the world's most powerful people - 28th July 2012
 * This £80m royal yacht is just a patriotic distraction - Both David Cameron and Ed Miliband have embraced the idea of the UK Flagship, but circus politics is no way to rule - 21st July 2012
 * Eva Rausing's story is part of the white noise of the age - The law bows to wealth, and is vicious to the ordinary. Rausing's death shows not how similar, but how different, rich and poor are - 14th July 2012
 * These Tory women are narcissists, not feminists - The myth persists that a woman in parliament, by virtue of her genitalia and her shoe size, is committed to equality - 30th June 2012
 * The political wife is a fantasy. Real girls need a good mate - Forget the simpering over Samantha Cameron's diary-keeping. Women need a partner who shares the load at home - 16th June 2012
 * The Queen's jubilee was a celebration of pure fantasy - Four days of fawning and drooling. Even the Queen looked embarrassed - 9th June 2012
 * Is addiction a moral defect or a mental illness? - Politicians or polemicists who debate the true nature of addiction do little to improve the addict's wellbeing - 29th May 2012
 * Benefit changes: David Cameron is no longer on the side of single parents - The Tory leader pledged to support single mothers. His party is now wielding the axe against them - 22nd May 2012
 * Minimum alcohol pricing? Blame those vomiting girls - Minimum alcohol pricing results from moral panic. It won't affect David Cameron's problem drinkers - 16th May 2012
 * The sex industry is repulsive, but it cannot be wished away - Brooke Magnanti looks at porn and prostitution with the eyes of an advocate. Yet she still has some truths to tell - 18th April 2012
 * Ricky Gervais, there is no justification for this lazy cruelty - Gervais satirising prejudice against disability? No, in Derek he's just a self-serving hypocrite, feeding bigots their lines - 11th April 2012
 * For women in work this is a perfect storm of inequality - For working women these are the worst of times. Whether it's job security, childcare or fair pay, we are going backwards - 3rd April 2012
 * Bring on the new SuBo in this Saturday night war of the broken - Call it a God complex or Judy Garland Syndrome, but our hunger for the emotional violence of reality TV is unsated - 27th March 2012
 * Sugar addiction is making our children – and Big Food – fat - Smoking and alcohol dangers are known and regulated for. So why are the risks posed by junk food not taken seriously? - 3rd March 2012
 * Squatting law will only criminalise the homeless. Let's demolish clause 130 - The million empty homes in Britain are the real scandal, not the squatting of a tiny number of occupied properties - 21st February 2012
 * Fashion's real victims - Working in an industry built on child labour and exploitation, it's little wonder models have finally unionised - 14th February 2012
 * The Oscars season of self-hatred - As the film awards approach, our fatal attraction to Brad Pitt et al grows, just as interest in their films diminishes - 3rd February 2012
 * LSE Nazi games in context - Antisemitic discourse is more acceptable now than at any time since the 1930s. I just can't laugh it off - 17th January 2012
 * Of course children are unhappy. They live here too - The Children's Society report that one in 11 kids are not happy isn't surprising. But treating their suffering seperately is pointless - 14th January 2012



Articles: 2011

 * How the lonely death of Joyce Vincent fuels our collective denial - When someone dies alone and unmissed, we label it bizarre in order to avoid the fact that is happens more often than we think - 26th December 2011
 * Forget the Queen. This is a diamond jubilee for royal PR - The royal family is embracing the global brand ethos with alacrity (and Catherine's big hair) - 16th December 2011
 * I blame the media for ignoring feminism in favour of makeup - Feminism seems so tiny today, so niche, of such little interest to the outside world. And yet it is needed - 29th October 2011
 * Why Dubai? The Wembley Plaza Hotel would have been much nicer, Mr Fox - For every piece of human misery that Dubai offers, the emirate has a wondrous piece of leisure to distract you - 15th October 2011
 * Beside the horror of recession, something gaudy is stirring ... - While pay for 70% of us is frozen or diminished, FTSE executive earnings were up by a third last year - 8th October 2011
 * And would you like a little bit more to tide you over, madam? - Sunday Times Magazine feature: Short-term loans at outrageous interest rates have taken off in Britain as a new wave of lenders attract vulnerable customers - 2nd October 2011
 * Carlos Tevez and Prince William: drop the self-pity and do your duty - This is no time to fly your helicopter into the mist Wills and bemoan your gilded fate. If you don't like it, get off the stage - 1st October 2011
 * Do Tories really think this is how to woo women back? - Many female voters were initially swayed by the PM's suburban dad act, but the love can't survive the harsh reality - 15th September 2011
 * Cameron should embrace his Bullingdon Club self - Why all the denials? The prime minister will be judged on his policies, not on his youthful past - 5th September 2011
 * families' do not need an army of Hyacinth Buckets shouting at them'' - Will those in the Working Families Everywhere scheme just feel more failed after the middle class day-trippers leave? - 27th August 2011
 * right has chosen its scapegoat – the single mum. And she will bleed'' - The danger of the single woman and the threat she poses to civilisation is an ancient narrative - 20th August 2011
 * kind of Speaker's wife'' - Sally Bercow is a gobby, fabulous retort to those who confuse marrying a politician with being him - 8th August 2011
 * pulled adverts: This ideal of female beauty is an abomination'' - The lengths the beauty industry and its ugly sister, the fashion industry, go to sell their products are repellent - 30th July 2011
 * Winehouse: Why is there so little understanding of addiction?'' - As with Judy Garland, so much energy has been given to her death in the public eye and so little to the process that took her there - 25th July 2011
 * smoking kills – but not everyone wants to be saved'' - Despite knowing each puff takes us closer to the grave, Big Tobacco keeps its nicotine-stained grip on millions of users - 31st May 2011
 * quite a paedophile' – John Humphrys' strange correction'' - Debating whether Prince Andrew's friend was a paedophile or not misses the point of exploitation - 8th March 2011
 * can we expect from the Wainwright-Cohen superstar spawn?'' - The arrival of Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen is perhaps the least sinister kind of genetic engineering I can think of - 23rd February 2011
 * Gray: our Jan Moir'' - Who would ever have guessed that it would be football that struck out for gender equality? - 27th January 2011
 * not just John Bercow – charm is disappearing from public life. About time too'' - Whether in the courtly language of Westminster or the honeyed words of Cameron, it conceals a fundamental dishonesty - 15th January 2011
 * keep the red flag flying here'' - Once again the watering holes of north London are full of champagne socialists, but how well are this new leftie tribe fitting in? - 9th January 2011
 * battle for equal opportunities still needs fighting'' - Inequality between the sexes is not a big deal any more, a new study tells us. That is only true if you are happy for women to have less than men - 8th January 2011
 * to hell, Romeo Beckham'' - David and Victoria Beckham's 8-year-old is on GQ's best-dressed men list. Poor little fellow - 5th January 2011



Articles: 2010

 * on, treat yourself at the sales'' - The shoppers who queue for cut-price designer goods are falling for two whopping lies - 30th December 2010
 * wedding: The agony of the ecstasy'' - I'm going to be tried for treason for saying this, but a royal wedding still makes idiots of us Brits - 25th November 2010
 * tale of two tyrannies'' - It is entirely apt that Naomi Campbell and co are at The Hague. Fashion should be put in the dock - 11th August 2010
 * Moat, this troubled man'' - David Cameron should realise that, no matter how depraved the crimes, sympathy is normal - 15th July 2010 (Raoul Moat: summary)
 * dark day in Dagenham'' - Tanya Gold follows Nick Griffin, BNP leader, on the campaign trail against Margaret Hodge - 12th April 2010
 * is moronic, but I can love the Winter Olympics'' - I once skated with Torvill & Dean. They dragged me across the ice like a fingernail on a blackboard - 23rd February 2010
 * is the most benign of all the silly religions'' - Please don't lump witches in with Jedi - 16th February 2010
 * Gordon Brown right to talk about his daughter's death?'' - I can't believe it was Gordon Brown's idea to talk about his daughter's death. Did somebody guilt-trip him into it? - 9th February 2010
 * we need celebrity autobiographies'' - If we can't hear the voices of celebrities such as Kerry Katona, we will hate them – because we won't understand them - 19th January 2010
 * Tony Blair met Louis Vuitton'' - So Tony Blair has found his natural home – selling handbags for Louis Vuitton. Well, he always had a soft spot for clothes . . . - 12th January 2010



Articles: 2009

 * rise of the iPhone generation'' - They are easy to spot and easy to pity – with a rectangular wound in their hand - 5th January 2010
 * on New Year's Eve'' - Every year, I wait for my birthday with a peculiar dread. Why did I have the misfortune to be born on New Year's Eve? - 29th December 2009
 * Dame Judi, but there's no escape from being a 'national treasure''' - Judi Dench may be sobbing at the unfairness of it all. But once you've reached this exalted status, that's it - 15th December 2009
 * role of the star in the movie may be wilting to nothing'' - I may never have to interview a bouncing narcissist again - 8th December 2009
 * Brooke Magnanti says she enjoyed her life as Belle de Jour'' - Please don't let this distort the grim reality of prostitution - 17th November 2009
 * should stop making films about our great writers'' - Bright Star, the new movie about Keats, has ruined him for me. It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last - 10th November
 * luck, Liz Truss'' - The row over the Tory candidate is yet another example of how women are trivialised in British politics - 3rd November 2009
 * never bought Michael Jackson as King of Pop'' - He was an OK singer and a good dancer. Then there's all the other stuff - 27th October 2009
 * can keep your glamour, thanks, Joan Collins'' - Why can't British women slop around like a shop window of rotting sausages, if that's what we choose? - 20th October 2009
 * on earth do students survive Freshers' Week?'' - Half a million students have been accepted into British universities this month. Their first battle is to get through their first few days - 13th October 2009
 * the bells and the smells and the lovely Raphaels, the Pope's visit to Britain is nothing to celebrate - Gordon Brown is 'delighted', David Cameron is 'delighted'. I am 'repelled' - 29th September 2009 (see also: Spare me the Catholic bashing'' by Melanie McDonagh)
 * women have sex'' - According to a new book, there are 237 reasons why women have sex. And most of them have little to do with romance or pleasure - 28th September 2009
 * Liz Jones a break!'' - Her confessionals highlight the agonies of women. Is that why other women columnists hate her so much? - 22nd September 2009
 * queen of unkindness'' - When remembering the Queen Mother, let us not overlook her cruelty – both to the 'little people' and her own family - 15th September 2009
 * time Venice stopped hating tourists'' - Global warming, not day trippers, is why the city's dying - 8th September 2009
 * apply lipstick, swoop again'' - Harriet Harman has been subject to misogynist abuse all week - 8th August 2009
 * 'most invited' list makes me want to be sick'' - Any magazine that believes David Cameron, Sarah Brown and Princess Beatrice are among the coolest people in the world has got a very big problem - 20th July 2009
 * wedding list says to me: your input is not required. Kill your imagination. Give us the spoons'' - Give them to me, squawks my friend, because I am in love - and so I get consumer durables for free. I demand a new kitchen - and you will pay for it! - 10th June 2009
 * our kind of victim'' - Always happy to rescue the downtrodden, we recoiled when Susan Boyle broke away - 2nd June 2009
 * understand Amy Winehouse, perhaps we should consider Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea'' - Does Winehouse's success comfort her? I doubt it; I suspect it taunts her - 6th May 2009
 * I confess all'' - My name is Tanya Gold and I am a confessional journalist. Do you want to know why? - 4th May 2009
 * cows, Nazi cats, actors playing depressed Nazis. It's all just Hitler porn and it disgusts me'' - We seem to have a new kind of Nazi domination - a cultural one. And it turns our eyes from the evils that we should be noticing - 23rd April 2009
 * wasn't singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain's Got Talent so much as our reaction to her'' - Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we? - 16th April 2009
 * may be 20 years since she was last on TV, but Alexis Carrington remains my ultimate role model'' - Alexis spent the series torturing Blake and his awful wife, to the cheers of women everywhere - 23rd March 2009
 * you are looking for a new year's resolution, try this one: never, ever date a swinger'' - How did I end up with a swinger? I found him outside a fringe party conference in 2004 - 1st January 2009



Articles: 2008

 * Whitehall fat police can do their worst. No one is going to get between me and my mini-rolls'' - 13th November 2008
 * students are just misery tourists mixing with The Poor because it looks good on Facebook'' - 6th November 2008
 * is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state-school kids - for its own good'' - 2nd October 2008
 * with this Jane Austen fixation? Her women were spirited, yes, but their lives were miserable'' - 11th September 2008
 * Spare me the lectures from celebs - 18th August 2008
 * me, glossies, save me!'' - She has always hated women's magazines, but when Tanya Gold read about the writer who changed her life by following their advice, she agreed to try it too - 13th August 2008
 * One of Vanity Fair's 'best-dressed' is wearing a jacket that looks like a thrown-up Indian takeaway - Only one accessory relating to royalty interests me: the wicker basket to contain their decapitated heads - 31st July 2008
 * David Cameron says alcoholism is a choice - I need to believe that it was my genes telling me to drink - 22nd July 2008
 * Judith Chalmers went commando on television - what message was she trying to send her viewers? - 26th June 2008
 * Why Wallis Simpson should get her blue plaque - People hated her because she refused to conform to our grotesque 1930s society - 10th June 2008
 * So what if Max Mosley played dodgy sex games? Some of those who condemn him should look at their own pasts - 5th June 2008
 * Infamy? They've got it - The Carry On films were crass and populated by misfits. And, sadly, they mirrored people's lives - 17th April 2008
 * For more and more women, booze offers the only escape - As a recovering alcoholic, I know how our society's constant assault on female self-esteem is creating unprecedented misery - 29th January 2008



Articles: 2007

 * Men want us lobotomised - In speed dating I did a lot better as a simpering, giggly florist than as a dazzlingly literate lawyer - 29th December
 * The day the chatshow died - It's farewell, then, to Parkinson, and farewell to a genre killed by the paranoid celebrity PR - 24th December, 2007
 * The heroines' heroine - Mills & Boon woman is no drippy pushover. Mess with her and you get your arms blown off -  8th December, 2007
 * Better eat a banana - The bad sex awards remind us that for even the most gifted writers, celibacy is the best policy - 13th October 13, 2007



Articles: 2005

 * The world has had enough - It wasn't feminism, terrorism or the end of the cold war that finally did for James Bond. It was Austin Powers -  24th January, 2005



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Articles: 2015

 * Speakeasy: Sorry, son, but I wasn’t able to resist joining the Bad Mothers’ Club - Modern motherhood: have a child and pay someone else to look after it. Except people may wonder... - 12th April
 * What teeth, what buffoonery: what a king Prince Andrew would be - What is monarchy for? Tourism, cry its fans, which is obviously nonsense - 11th January

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Articles: 2014

 * Phones are turning our lives into trash TV - How do I hate my iPhone (which I’ve become horribly dependent on)? Let me count the ways - 22nd August
 * Beware the coldness beneath cuddly Boris - He’s the witty teddy bear that voters flock to meet. But what will they make of his darker side? - 8th August
 * The Turk said ‘don’t smirk’. It didn’t work. So he tried ‘don’t twerk’ - Bulent Arinc, the deputy prime minister of Turkey, is a complete inadequate - 3rd August
 * Please have your ticket and special partner ready for the inspector - Speakeasy: I am sweating in north London, watching people ironing on their balconies in their underpants - 27th July
 * A pat for gay Derek, the four-legged fifth columnist biting the BNP - Speakeasy: It’s tough being a baby fascist. I refer you to the tale of Jack Renshaw, the youth leader of the... - 20th July
 * Do shuddup, darling. This bride of Messi is watching the footie - I am obsessed with the footie. (Not the FTSE.) - 13th July
 * Cruel nuns, vanished babies: a fairy tale to make you shudder - Speakeasy: A tale from Ireland: in Tuam, Co Galway, a historian called Catherine Corless believes at least... - 8th June
 * Never mind Steinbeck, Mr Gove, just slap a ban on my grades of wrath - Speakeasy: I ought to have an opinion on the GCSE English curriculum wars in which people pretend to have read... - 1st June
 * Clubland quakes at the thought of hockey sticks and hen nights - Speakeasy: The Travellers’ Club at 106 Pall Mall, London, which is a gentlemen’s club for diplomats and spies,... - 13th April
 * Labour’s grand election strategy of hernias and poisoned fish - Speakeasy: Neil Kinnock is in trouble for calling Eric Pickles “fat” - 30th March
 * Cor blimey, Mary Poppins, you make William and Kate look radical - Speakeasy: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have hired a Norland nanny - 23rd March
 * Zoom in, great pretender Dave, and take a long hard look at your selfie - Speakeasy: Why did the prime minister take a selfie while he was on the telephone to Barack Obama, and then... - 9th March
 * Someone throw up some roadworks, Formula One is coming to town - Speakeasy: Any utopia that is also Bernie Ecclestone’s utopia is not mine - 2nd March
 * From where I’m sitting, Dasha doesn’t know her art from her elbow - Speakeasy - 26th January
 * The truth gets trampled in Hollywood’s red carpet stampede - Speakeasy: The season of awards: cinema fights over baubles. - 12th January
 * Too dangerous for TV: the satirist purged for being right - Speakeasy - 19th January
 * The truth gets trampled in Hollywood’s red carpet stampede - Speakeasy - 12th January
 * Hold this yak, footman, while Her Majesty counts the unwanted gifts - Speakeasy: What to do with unwanted gifts? (Pardon me, Santa, but the lingerie was tight.) - 5th January 2014

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Articles: 2013

 * Never mind Pemberley. I’m watching Weather Comes to Dorking - Speakeasy: I am walking in the ruins of Tintagel castle on Boxing Day and it is cold - 29th December
 * Ho ho no to the high and mighty’s cards wishing you Merry Cringeness - Speakeasy: ‘Let them hate me so long as they fear me,” is a quotation often attributed to the emperor... - 22nd December
 * ‘Alien lizards? Gold tablets? Get real,’ said the burning bush - Speakeasy: The Supreme Court in Britain has ruled that Scientologists can marry in their own church because their practices amount to “worship” - 15th December 2013
 * Just sit over there, love, and watch us dismantle women’s rights - Speakeasy: The “voice” of 132 British universities and colleges, Universities UK has issued guidelines on the... - 8th December
 * Put your daughter into the Disney machine and out pops Princess Fright - Speakeasy: The Walt Disney Company has entered into a dark alliance with Harrods - 1st December
 * Please let me on the bus, driver. I’m just a mum with a small bear - Speakeasy: So here I am, shouting at a bus at 9am on Thursday - 24th November
 * Eve couldn’t resist the apple. We’ve snatched Ming the clam - Speakeasy: When scientists from Bangor University — henceforth called “idiots” — removed a 3.4-inch clam, or ocean quahog, from the sea bed in 2006, they didn’t know he was 507 years old - 17th November
 * Cake, pen tricks and beards — if comedians ruled the world - Russell Brand has called for a people’s revolution; his fury is partly inspired, he writes, by his friend seeing Labour and Tory MPs at the same drinks party, speaking to one another - 10th November
 * Phones4U, SillyHouse4Me: here comes the billionaire’s batty bunker - In The Lord of the Rings a foolish hobbit awoke an ancient beast called a balrog - 3rd November
 * Arrr, me hearties. Let’s mutiny and cover grey England in pirate villages - The fate of Challis Island, Cambridgeshire, is, aesthetically speaking, a matter of national importance - 28th July
 * Of course there’s no sexism at the BBC, just Strictly Come Groping - Today, the BBC programme, has a new female presenter in Mishal Husain. This is excellent - 21st July
 * Step aside, Miss Austen. Julie Andrews would look better on a £10 note - Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, a man who looks like a recently washed Ewok, has axed Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, from the £5 note and is replacing her with Winston Churchill... - 30th June
 * Speakeasy: Be prepared — there may be a dark side to Fifty Shades of Winnie-the-Pooh - Fifty Shades of Grey has progressed from a trilogy of books to a forthcoming film... - 23rd June
 * Speakeasy: Faster than a speeding bullet, flashier than a Russian oligarch - Superman flies again with new flesh. This time it is the actor Henry Cavill, from The Tudors, who has the worst job in cinema: trying to make Superman seem less of a prat... - 16th June
 * Speakeasy: You may now kiss the bride, Mr Lagerfeld, and give her some Kitekat - The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld wants to marry his cat... - 9th June
 * Speakeasy: Shivering Sherpas, I’m carrying the one cargo you can’t take up Everest - It is the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest. What has it taught us? - 2nd June
 * Speakeasy: Look closer — Gatsby’s darker side is at the bottom of that cocktail glass - The Great Gatsby is about a self-invented man, Jay Gatsby, his parties and his dreams. It is also about alcoholism... - 19th May
 * Speakeasy: O blessed Bowie Jesus, let me feel the power of the one true scarf - David Bowie, “the world’s most sophisticated pop star”, has broken a 10-year musical silence with his album The Next Day. Now comes the video of the single - and a mistake... - 12th May
 * Speakeasy: Just listen to the wisdom of My Fair Phantom of the West Side Story - The Spice Girls musical, the unhappily named Viva Forever!, is closing — a victim, perhaps, to its utterly bogus feminism (girl power) and also to its timing... - 5th May
 * Speakeasy: Princess Bump the Unborn is looking a bit thin, isn’t she? - From naked breasts to too-small bump, the objectification of Kate goes on, a sort of dirty royal version of Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes... - 28th April
 * Speakeasy: And here’s a calfskin mortarboard to set off your £24,000 Vogue diploma - Vogue College, or the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design — or, as I call it, the University of Idiocy and Purging - opened in Soho last week... - 21st April
 * Speakeasy: You keep the gong, Sir HBOS – it’s no more tainted than the others - Sir James Crosby, chief executive of HBOS until 2006 and the main culprit behind the bank’s crash and a £20bn public bailout, has begged for his knighthood to be revoked... - 14th April
 * Speakeasy: Chip away at that Pompeii stone and it is ourselves revealed inside - Goats! Dormice! Bling! The relics of Pompeii, displayed - or celebrated, if you are tasteless - in the British Museum’s new exhibition... - 31st March
 * Speakeasy: Heard the gag about the Tory comedian? Nor me, and I married one - Why aren’t Tories funny? Or, to pose the question slightly more fairly, for we are not in a comedy club, where are the Tory stand-up comics? - 17th March

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