Grace Dent



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Articles: 2016

 * The Celebrity Big Brother line-up is the usual shambles of has-beens, nearly-weres and never-will-bes. Bring it on - Heavy D from Storagers Hunt UK claimed, without a flicker of irony in his pre-show interview, that his personal hero was Another Level’s Dane Bowers. This is the kind of logic one can’t argue with - 30th July
 * It wasn't just Philip Green who spent all that money – time for his party pals Kate Moss, Gwyneth et al to pull their fingers out - BHS workers have been 'consciously uncoupled' from their pensions, as Green threw lavish parties attended by the likes of Gwynneth Paltrow and Leonardo DiCaprio - 25th July
 * Bob Geldof yelled at fans for wearing Primark because he wants to talk up the working classes but never walk among them - Lefty, boho windbags like him will spend an entire lifetime exalting the glorious, faultless working classes – in song, in prose, in mid-interview rhetoric. This continues until the very second they’re actually faced with them - 23rd July
 * Pokémon Go is the break from reality we all need - There will no doubt be a Pokémon Go scare story soon. Yet it’s important to remember that for a short time in July 2016, there was tangible proof that our default setting is open, curious, childlike and really quite silly - 18th July
 * Child-free women like me aren't tragic figures – whether or not your cervix dilated to 10cm once has very little bearing on your happiness - Andrea Leadsom pointed out that bearing children gave her 'a very real stake in the future'. This, as opposed to women like Jennifer Aniston and myself, who would smash their barren fists upon a nuclear detonator at a second’s notice screaming, ‘The world ends after meeeeee!’ - 16th July
 * Why you should warn your children about Teddy Tablets – even if you spent your own teens high on ecstasy - How do we protect young children from the exact mistakes many of us made ourselves? The tendency must be to become so worried about our hypocrisy being exposed that we don’t say anything at all - 21st June
 * There’s something un-British about our response to Orlando and Jo Cox - but it's exactly what we need - At a point in British history where we’re knee-deep in mutual-antagonism an old-school request for ‘positive vibes’ written in felt tip pen at the Jo Cox vigil seemed oddly healing - 18th June
 * How many surprise resurrections can Game of Thrones serve us before we start suffering from literal overkill? - SPOILER ALERT: This piece discusses key plot points from the latest episode - 14th June
 * If I was elected leader of the free world I'd buy many $12,495 jackets – Hillary Clinton should follow my lead - I’d be tempted to buy two dozen identical Prada work-wear frocks in industrial slate grey, then wear them brazenly, indistinguishably and without comment, for my entire four year term of office - 11th June
 * If you think Noma Dumezweni doesn’t quite fit as Hermione, then JK Rowling is right – you’re racist - We live in a society where the r-word has lost its punch, but the response to Dumezweni should act as a jarring prod - 6th June
 * First a careless mother allowing Harambe the gorilla's death, then the callous father of Yamato Tanooka - these parents deserve our judgment - There are seldom few plaudits for people like me who choose not to have babies, and by default can visit National Trust houses without a SWAT team needing to take out the peacocks - 4th June
 * Want to solve the housing and social care crises? Then share a mortgage with your grandma - If granny lives past 90, she will have been in the property market 70 years and her delicious nest egg will have boiled to a point of approximately £3m - 31st May
 * Top Gear is back – and I can't wait to see the anarchic Chris Evans in the driving seat - Top Gear is a show about how lovely it is to driving cars fast, filmed at a point in history when we should all apparently be behaving like the Spandex-clad bell-ringing berks – and I love it - 28th May
 * The Labour ‘firstname’ email disaster is more about your wounded ego than Jeremy Corbyn’s failings - We want to live at the speed of computers, then we cry like babies when we’re treated like numbers and code - 23rd May
 * Thanks to the European Union we are saying farewell to the glamorous life of the social smoker - Yesterday’s smokers had it easy. Thanks to new EU laws today’s smokers are destined to amble into the boozer carrying a shag-repelling box of nicotine horror, part covered in a photo of rotting eye, or a weeping scab - 21st May
 * Tom Hiddleston would cause a stir as Bond, but Idris Elba is the only man who could shake up the franchise - There would no doubt be a small percentage of people unhappy about Elba being James Bond due to his skin colour, but there must be a diminishing number of these shut-minded quackers? - 17th May
 * You won't part me from my high heels – if this is millennial feminism, I'm joining the patriarchy - I worked as a receptionist in the 1990s and happily wore both heels and a face of slap. The professional fem-bot costume is your armour - 13th May
 * Need proof that the BBC really doesn't need to be more competitive? Take a look at the Baftas - Like all large modern companies, the BBC has its faults, its faffing-abouts and its managerial brain-farts – but it excels at inventing great, comforting TV and outstanding drama - 10th May
 * Before I became a restaurant critic, I didn't know the awful truth about tipping - it urgently needs sorting out - British people know, at some level, we’re being fleeced each time we’re shamed into adding extra cash on a dining bill for ‘service’ - 3rd May
 * Game of Thrones has finally silenced everyone who complained the TV show wasn't faithful to the books - 26th April
 * Victoria Wood celebrated the imperfect nature of the British way – and she'll live in our hearts forever - Wood was a mischievous observer of the banal; of office politics, ageing parents and the realities of love. Like the indomitable women she created, death won't keep her down - 21st April
 * Yes, I do like the monarchy - especially Kate and Will. No amount of arguing will convince me otherwise - My working class, hard-left leaning partner is a staunch republican - but I remain unconvinced by his arguments - 19th April
 * Scientists have developed a way for you to avoid gentrification so now preachy people can feel better about themselves - The people who sneer about gentrifcation the loudest are the ones with parents who will eventually cough up the down payment on a mortgage in this ‘shabby-chic, upcoming area’ - 16th April
 * Howard Marks was a bold, brash, wonderfully problematic hero - these days he'd be no-platformed by students - What you learned from listening to Marks talk about his mindset, and why he got into the drugs trade, tells us more than a thousand hours of earnest anthropological study - 11th April
 * [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/zac-goldsmith-doesnt-know-what-comes-next-on

Articles: 2015

 * Black-tie boozing? I’d rather be ruffling my Labrador’s ears - No wonder The Queen has looked utterly furious half of her life. They rarely let her go home - 24th November
 * A Christmas ad this good could never arrive too early for me - The joy of Lidl’s offering comes from how it skews the silly, rubbish things about the big day - 3rd November
 * We have embraced America's cry-baby culture over offensive halloween costumes - Please be sure that I am currently no-platforming myself from a number of universities even for casually imagining these outfit ideas - 27th October
 * In the age of Instagram, of course we want school photos touched up - I wish the service being offered to today's kids had been around to spare me from looking like Emo Philips in my childhood snaps - 20th October
 * The rejigged Ladybird Books for adults offer safe, sardonic self-help - Ladybird is entirely correct that modern life is as bewildering for a forty-something as a four-year-old - 13th October
 * When it comes to taking on the super-rich, we're all in this together - Shoreditch cereal-phobic anarchists and the Berkshire anti-Clooney clan have something in common - however unlikely that may seem - 29th September
 * Happy 60th birthday, ITV. Am I the only one who remembers, or cares? - I've searched Twitter for a frenetic #ILoveITV feed, yet for some reason none is forthcoming - 22nd September
 * If you're too ashamed to speak to children about sex, exploitative free porn will fill the gaps - Embarrassment prevents too many of us from speaking frankly to kids about the numerous porn tropes being imprinted on their young mind’s eye - 8th September
 * One Direction split: All boybands must die – it's the only way their fans can grow up - Young girls want to believe that 1D are destined to stay together forever, because all strong friendships we make as young people last forever, don’t they? - 25th August
 * Here’s a lesson in my menstrual cycle, Donald Trump – you need it - One of the weirdest things about the 'got the painters in, have you?' trope is how biologically inaccurate it is - 11th August
 * There are two ways of growing old – and I’m taking Lord Sewel’s - The peer laughs in the face of tepid Horlicks, squealing hearing aids and a mania about wheely bin collection times - 28th July
 * Who can blame Scotland for trying to distance themselves from the deep-fried Mars bar? - It’s unfair for Scots to go out into this world tarred with this big, battered brush - 21st July
 * The 'degrees are useless' theory is fine if you're posh, assertive and lucky - the only people it fails are poorer children - Rich kids bypassing uni for top jobs shows just how rigged our society is - 14th July
 * You could argue that any form of exercise taken up after the age of 35 is cult-like - Putin shouldn't ban yoga. He should pull on some leggings and get stuck in. - 12th July
 * Elite firms prefer to hire posh. Well, who wouldn’t? - Love or hate the posho, but they can fit in anywhere there is money to be made - 16th June
 * Kate Moss being removed from an easyJet flight presents a clash of two gloriously immovable forces - There’s a beautiful irony in rumours that Moss called the pilot a 'basic bitch', because the offer of Gatwick to Cologne for £24 makes basic bitches of all of us - 9th June
 * Leicester City sex tape: So the lower ranks of football are as sordid and sinister as the top - This is about men degrading women, giggling with joy at the unfairness which lets them - 2nd June
 * Children's TV shows like Grange Hill used to connect us to the real world - The death of Terry Sue-Patt has reminded me of how easy it is now for someone to slip downhill unnoticed - 26th May
 * The man-only panel is bad, but the token-woman panel is even worse - The average manel – a men-only panel of experts – really does not want to be a manel, it’s an awkward, backwards-looking creature and it knows it - 19th May
 * Bruce Jenner interview: We think being transgender is a rare thing. And that’s part of the problem - The sooner we accept that gender, for many people, isn’t a cut and dried thing, the better - 28th April
 * Jeremy Clarkson is brave in opening up. So don’t sneer at him - Clarkson’s words reminded me that violent outbursts are so rarely about one human being simply adoring the feeling of hitting another - 21st April
 * Game of Thrones leak: Brits are now the world's biggest pirates, but I know how we can stop them - If they're going to spoil the fun, then they should have their TV shows spoilt too - 14th April
 * The rise of DIY dentistry: Yet again social mobility seems to be in reverse - There is already a marked difference between the teeth of the rich and poor - 7th April
 * In case you were wondering what it's like to not always look down at your phone, I can tell you - When we 'look up' the human condition forces us to think some pretty troubling stuff - 3rd April
 * Ashya King: Was the NHS's choice of treatment right or wrong? Let's not go there - At the heart of this episode is an uplifting story about a little boy – the rest is petty political point-scoring - 24th March
 * Dolce and Gabbana's views on IVF are wrong, but should we really be surprised? And what do all their new haters actually want? - I've joined Elton John's call to boycott D&G by cancelling my order of their £11,750 gown that fits the proportions of a pre-pubescent boy with rickets - 16th March
 * Crufts dog poisoning: This 'murder' lifts the lid on our canine failings - The puppy’s greatest design flaw is that it looks so cute in photos, which means that most low-lifes, flakes and airheads will at some point be convinced they need one - 10th March
 * If teenage girls want to join Isis in the face of all its atrocities, then they should leave and never return - It's hard to believe that the Bethnal Green trio don't know what they're doing - 24th February
 * Ignore the BBC-bashing pillocks: The Casual Vacancy is as entertaining as it is realistic - Anyone who thinks that communists at the Beeb are frittering away their license fee on anti-Tory propaganda must find life exhausting - 17th February
 * Internet trolls are infuriating and depressing but giving them asbos is not the answer - It’s unworkable to expect the police to keep tabs on abusive behaviour - 10th February
 * If Prince Charles is going to be this troublesome, we don’t really want him to be King - In a previous age, courtiers would have quietly ushered him away from the seat of power - 3rd February
 * Thank heavens for Louise Mensch and her foul-mouthed tweets to world leaders - Her anger at the response to King Abdullah's death sums up what many of us are thinking - 27th January
 * And we all thought this Pope was a bit more gay-friendly than his predecessors... - Would Jesus have said the sort of things Francis has been saying? - 20th January
 * We can laugh at Steve Emerson and Fox News, but find me an ‘expert’ who actually knows anything - Free speech also means the freedom to talk complete rubbish - 12th January
 * Ched Evans' fans continue to defend him, but would they do the same for a rapist cab driver? - The saga has revealed how far people are willing to go to stand up for someone famous, even if they've committed hideous crimes - 6th January



Articles: 2014

 * Ask Nigel Farage anything, and you can guarantee there will be outrage - It’s our smug rush to silence him that voters find deafening - 9th December
 * Cyber Monday: Now it's almost all over, I can't wait until Psycho Saturday and Worst Behaviour Ever Wednesday - The only thing I can't stand about these events are those who think it's 'snobby' to look down on those who lose their minds amid the buying frenzy - 2nd December
 * Band Aid 30: You know it must be Christmas when everyone's shouting about a charity single - Ah, how I love the festive sound of intellectual critiques clashing with Geldof's populism - 25th November
 * If there’s nothing in the Westminster paedophile ring stories, then prove it - It should not be this arduous or tricky to find the truth about the Westminster paedophile ring stories - 17th November
 * Gordon Ramsay and the great restaurant table-booking nightmare - The saboteur is is clearly a very naughty, grudge-fuelled indomitable mischief-maker - 17th November
 * In the future sex will still be fun – even if you ARE trying for a baby - The prediction of recreational-only sex by 2050 shows up the impossible choices young women have to make - 10th November
 * We can’t handle the truth – even when it’s Lena Dunham showing it to us - The ‘incident’ with the Girls’ creator’s younger sister highlights our confusion over children’s sexuality - 4th November
 * The rise of Russell Brand and Nigel Farage has proved one thing — the rest of our politicians are an indistinguishable mess - Voters and vote-abstainers throughout Britain see Westminster as being “deep down, all the bloody same” - 28th October
 * Once we’ve decided what a 'troll' is, then we can work out if they need jailing - Does Chris Grayling realise what a vague concept he is dealing with? - 20th October
 * Sorry Judy Finnigan, but Ched Evans is no less sickening than an alleyway rapist - Evans and his supporters seem to think that it’s not rape if the victim can’t quite remember what happened - 15th October
 * The case of Brenda Leyland and the McCanns is a thoroughly modern tale of internet lawlessness - You can’t accuse a TV reporter of ‘hounding’ someone who is guilty of trolling - 7th October
 * Why do we assume that all working-class people crave social mobility? - There’s more to life than sashimi, Skype conferencing and holidays in Tuscany - 8th September
 * The leak of Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos isn't her fault. But try telling that to the internet's idiots - "Who the hell are you to tell me what to look at?" they say - 2nd September
 * Pauline Pearce is exactly what politics needs. But politics is too safe and boring to accommodate her - The Hackney Heroine could have invigorated the Lib Dems - 19th August
 * If you care about Claude the cat – or any animal – you should support the RSPCA - This is a charity that deserves to be given more power, not less - 12th August
 * Sombre TV moments filled a day when we were reminded of how war’s lessons are never learnt - There was so much dignity in the generation that endured this horror - 5th August
 * Let's make Eid a bank holiday - It's not just the chance for a day with my feet up that's got me convinced - 29th July
 * Screwing your way to the top? Good for Lana Del Rey for helping kill that myth - No one ever says it about men, so why say it about wome - 24th July
 * Well done Cheryl Cole for marrying after only three months - Why have your wedding day ruined by the slow drip of reality? - 15th July
 * Is Ian Thorpe gay? Does anyone care? - Sexuality is a fluid, ever-fluttering concept, so let's finally accept that there’s no point in these public declarations of 'in' or 'out' at all - 8th July
 * Rolf Harris: A very ordinary tale of a bleak abuse of male power over young girls - It's appalling that even in 2014 we continue to blame child victims - 1st July
 * My latest top 10 World Cup moments - Featuring Coleen’s luggage, that Ghanaian goal celebration, and the force of nature that is Karim Benzema... - 24th June
 * Grace Dent: My Top 10 World Cup moments - From the impeccable chic of Thierry Henry to the Japanese fans who tidy up after themselves, there has already been so much to enjoy - 16th June
 * Grace Dent on TV: Why wouldn’t a cat start lobbying for John West tuna chunks at 4am? - 7th June
 * Wheels by Wonga: a great chance to peddle while you pedal - Transport for London is seeking a new sponsor for the capital’s “Boris bike” cycle hire scheme af..... - 3rd June
 * Of all the mass-murderers, Elliot Rodger is the one I’d most like to throttle. His creed was self-pity, his world a figment of the internet - He was an affluent youth enjoying all the luxuries of the Western world - 27th May
 * Forget Jesus and Judas, our modern morality play stars Justin Bieber and Emma Watson - It’s heartwarming that young people look up to Tom Daley and not Rihanna. But don’t they need role models who lead them astray? - 20th May
 * It’s amazing what you can get away with if you’re Boris - Scatter-gunning faux-pas, mild outrage and well-meaning tactlessness - 13th May
 * If Morrisons understands the region so well, what the hell is it doing despoiling Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’? - This magnificent monument belongs to the people, not to any supermarket chain - 6th May
 * Is this what Ukip thinks we secretly think? That Lenny Henry should go and live in a ‘black country’? It’s time to fight back - Ukip candidate William Henwood uses Conversational Racism For Beginner - 29th April
 * Thanks for the Easter message, Dave. But if you’re such a good Christian, why are so many people in Britain using food banks? - I didn’t fall away from religion because of a lummox on an electric guitar - 22nd April
 * What could be more British than to be ‘somewhat proud’ of this country? Honestly – it makes you somewhat proud - I’ll leave the bolshie, bragging ‘very proud’ to Americans and North Koreans - 15th April
 * Modern life can be horrific. But assisted suicide is the easy – and often wrong – option, so don’t let the likes of Dignitas dignify it - A retired teacher ended her life because she ‘couldn’t adapt to the modern world’ - 8th April
 * We need to treat stay-at-home dads with the respect that stay-at-home mums have yearned for - The idea that men are making a good job of being home-makers and baby-raisers is a kick in the teeth for the cult of Mummydom - 1st April
 * Not good enough for the cover of ‘Vogue’? Kim Kardashian has a lot more to be proud of than the tedious fashionistas who condemn her - The knee-jerk dislike of Kim reveals a lot about the person disliking - 25th March
 * George Osborne's on the 5:2 diet. Let's hope he isn't making Budget decisions when he's really, really hungry - Men love the diet as it combines hokey science with a chance to be more knowledgable about weight loss - 18th March
 * Oh no! After Princes Harry and Andrew go, will there be any left to marry? - The better bet was Harry, but bookies believe he might be Cressida's - 11th March
 * The best moments from the 2014 Oscars: Jennifer Lawrence does ‘normal’, Liza Minnelli goes bra-less, Jared Leto works up a swoonsme hair-do . . . - This year's ceremony had me giggling, panting, and downright puzzled - 4th March
 * How Prince became a purple pain - He should have showed up in London, then buggered off again sharpish - 18th February
 * Flappy Birds: Getting into a flap can be beautiful - Poor Dong Nguyen, the pressure was too much - 11th February
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman: The imperfections that made him so adorable - In the right role the star of so many great movies was worth a dozen Tom Cruises - 4th February
 * Check your closet for skeletons, Rufus Hound. Britain likes its politicians squeakier than squeaky clean - I'm amazed that Rufus is considering swapping celebrity for politics - 28th January
 * Lena Dunham and Vogue: Since when did being feminist mean showing off your pimples? - Practically every picture in every magazine is touched up - not just Lena's - 21st January
 * Valérie Trierweiler and what my heartbreak hotel would like - A broken heart really does feel like a physical thing. Perhaps I should open a clinic to help people who’ve experienced it - 14th January
 * When I’m offered my OBE – and it’s ‘when’ not ‘if’ – I’ll grab it with both hands - Those who refuse an honour inevitably follow it up with a worthy fuss - 1st January



Articles: 2013

 * To all those offended by Lady Gaga’s dancing, Jennifer Lopez’s leotard and Archbishop Atkinson: Get a grip! - We trip over ourselves to apologise to these people at our peril - 18th December
 * We want women to sit at boardroom tables – but we also fetishise motherhood - Just when you thought you could find a man, get married, and have a baby by the age of 35... it turns out you’re too late - 12th December
 * With science once again highlighting differences between male and female brains, is it time to reconsider the value of stereotypes? - I’m both a feminist and a female stereotype – so I know that we’re wired differently - 4th December
 * Want to have more sex? Leave your smartphones out of the bedroom - In the pre-selfie era, the devil could make mucky work for idle hands - 27th November
 * Let’s not talk frankly about porn - Where can a full and frank porn talk go aside from one person decreeing that the other cannot have the sexual outlet they rely on? - 20th November
 * Now David Dimbleby has one, tattoos have lost their last remnants of street cred - Plus, displaying the upper-upper-upper thigh is not a blow for female progress - 13th November
 * We could all stock up on cup noodles and corned beef and join Russell Brand’s revolution... if it wasn’t for the man himself - Hopefully Russell’s brand of revolution will involve a lovely big debating circle - 7th November
 * Jennifer Aniston cut her hair! What on earth could this mean! - This kind of chat is what happens if you’re 44, unmarried and without children - 7th November
 * I’d offer my opinion about our feudal society, but I’m only a humble Dent - Research from LSE about which names rule confirms all our unfortunate suspicions - 30th October
 * Prince George christening: An ordinary day in this new era of the British monarchy - Miraculously for posh people, Will and Kate have picked friends for godparents - 24th October
 * Morrissey autobiography: I can’t wait to discover this charming man’s side of the story - 17th October
 * The Nasty Party is back, sneering at food banks and those who use them - First they peddled the Big Society, now the Tories bad-mouth these community projects - 17th October
 * How come it's lesbians rather than gay men that are giving up on civil partnerships? - Accepted wisdom has said for decades that lesbians loved settling down - 10th October
 * A digital eraser for under-18s to delete unfortunate online postings? I want one of those - Today’s youth have laid their lives bare, ready to view at the click of a mouse. They need saving from themselves - 26th September
 * Drunk tanks: Bearing in mind that £400 is quite a wedge, how will we extract it from the low-waged? - A chance to make money out of drunks. Very Tory - 19th September
 * Me and the new iPhone: just what my fingers have been waiting for - How much more enslaved to technology can I be? I am about to find out -12th September
 * Forget morals. It’s the stupidity of those porn-watching MPs that should worry us - It’s very telling about the human condition and the way porn has saturated modern culture that here we see employees with everything to lose searching porn at work - 5th September
 * Stop slagging off Jamie Oliver. He’s earned the right to these opinions - It’s naive for middle-class people to think that the working class don’t also comment on ‘big televisions’ - 29th August
 * From Simon Cowell to Prince William: There’s only one thing worse than the old 1970s dad – and that’s the new dad - The old dad would never get mushy-eyed over nappies and 'feelings' - 21st August
 * We could do with more ‘jobs for the girls’. It would at least be a start - Merely breathing the world ‘tokenism’ in relation to the job world suggests one believes the current dispersal of power to be just and fair - 15th August
 * These trolls won’t be stopped, but neither will I - Who are these men’s wives, sisters and grans? You with mask and the knife sending “time to die” shots to MPs - does your mother know you’re using her best cleaver? - 8th August
 * The Grace Dent Guide to Happiness - I truly hope David Cameron is not developing policy around the deranged chunterings of anyone who found their happiness levels altered by the Diamond Jubilee - 1st August
 * We've all had our special moment, now let Kate and Will have theirs - After many, many hours of televised twaddle, we have a new Prince. 8lbs, 6 ounces - 23rd July
 * My step-by-step programme for curing men of sexism - It's really not that hard to understand. Are you the man who bellows, “DON’T GET HYSTERICAL!” if a woman is trying to make point. Congrats, you're a sexist berk - 13th July
 * Are you appalled by the fuss over human rights for serial killers? Try Dubai - Yesterday's human rights verdict on killers like Jeremy Bamber certainly sticks in the throat, but the European Court is a buffer zone between us and our savagery - 11th july
 * Ramadan Live? How dare Channel 4 disturb my dreams of the EDL leader riding a lion through Trafalgar Square? - I doubt they know or care it has given airtime to minority religions for decades - 3rd July
 * Spare me your ‘Glastonbury vibes’. At our age, the only reason to camp is a humanitarian disaster - Your kids would rather be on a Thomas Cook holiday, not observing you skanking - 26th June
 * They might be living in caves, but it's not the homeless who are hiding - Our urban skins get ever thicker to the soaring numbers of people living on the streets. My solution? Keep building up that sense of comfortable numbness - 13th June
 * If I can fall through the cracks of the NHS, with my gob and sharp elbows, what hope for the meek? - 30th May
 * I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are - 2013 has been an extremely tough year for people like Sir Gerald Howarth - 23rd May
 * How could so many years of horrendous abuse go unnoticed? In this case, the guilt extends way beyond Oxford sex traffickers - This isn’t ‘cultural’. We have a problem that is predatory older men of every race - 16th May
 * A nice little job-share? This could be our chance to learn to love Prince Charles - She's still sharp as a tack, but by God she's done her duty. Pass Charles the DVT socks and the mosquito spray and let him take the strain - 9th May
 * Bill Roache: Celebrities are in the dock and we’re the judge and jury. It all makes me uneasy - This whole process should be a victory for women but I don’t feel remotely victorious - 2nd May
 * If every man or woman’s home is their castle, who cares if it costs £1 to buy? - This is a strange, slightly hippy commune vibe mixed with the arch-Tory values of “one’s home is one’s castle” and “get out and scrub your step”. I really rather love it - 25th April
 * Thatcher's Funeral: The barriers and the bollards were ready but the throngs never came. . . - The view from the sofa: I’d expected a mix of Will and Kate’s wedding and Occupy St. Pauls. In the event it was as quiet as Christmas Day - 18th April
 * Thatcher's children we may be, but these death parties are just childish - Would I be here without her as an example? There’s no place for cogent pondering right now. You’re either a “Tory twat” or you have a death party to organise - 11th April
 * Mrs Justice Thirlwall: The one woman Philpott couldn't defeat - Thirlwall issued a judgement so razor-sharp that when I read the full transcript I felt like punching the air - 6th April
 * The Book of Mormon’s lesson in genital genocide - Female genital mutilation needs full-throated protest and some people possibly being rather offended - 30th March
 * Outrage at the Steubenville rape case is all over Twitter - whether CNN likes it or not - Men, turn off Match of the Day. It’s time for my lecture on the Steubenville rape, dungarees and all - 21st March
 * Petronella, paedophilia, and the wrong lesson to draw from Olivier’s pass - 13th March
 * I could criticise Justin Bieber. But I'd rather not be monstered by his 35 million Twitter followers - 6th March
 * They bite babies, kill chickens, and have noisy sex. Why on earth would we want a cull of urban foxes? - There are no shortage of challenges facing children in our inner cities. Like bleak poverty and hunger in classrooms. But foxes? Give them a break - 13th February
 * Come on, Beyonce. Who are you trying to kid with this all this homely ‘Mrs Carter’ business? - Despite it being 2013 not 1066, women still chuck away their names because ‘it’s just what you do’ - 6th February
 * Martin Clunes may be 'surprised' he's been ditched by Churchill Car Insurance. Nobody else is - 30th January
 * There’s nothing empowering about girls who expose themselves online. Look what happened to Tulisa - 23rd January
 * The death of traditional retailers like HMV started when we caught on to one-click and the joy of owning DVDs wore thin - Farewell, then, to a victim of click, click, hooray - 16th January
 * Men's London Fashion Week - Welcome, boys! Now you too can be manipulated by fashion - 9th January



Articles: 2012

 * If Instagram turns this Andrea Dworkin into Beatrice Dalle, then I’ll pay for it - From 2013, we must make the choice between ‘high vanity’ or a form of snuggly, slow-creeping cyber-slavery - 19th December
 * Want to make it as a female Hobbit in Middle-earth? Think again: there’s a glass ceiling there, too - From bishops to the biggest film release this Christmas, it's clear the patriarchy still has some way to slide. Also: a spot of free PR advice for George Osborne - 12th December
 * Who exactly is supposed to be interested in Kate’s baby? Not me – and not anyone I know - There’s more to life than being slim, fitting into a size-6 Issa frock, finding a Prince and getting knocked up - 5th December
 * Oh how fun to see the wheels come off Ukip's battle bus. Not that they’d have a bus, more a Volvo estate - We really warmed to you, Nigel Farage - and then you blew it, despite the fact that what happened in Rotherham is the biggest stroke of luck your party has had - 28th November
 * In the Tower of Babel that is Twitter, silence descends. Quite right, too - Tweeters used to shrug and say, "Well that's just the internet", but Lord McAlpine's solicitors may have just changed Twitter for ever - 17th November
 * Isn't the one thing lacking from the Paul Broadwell, David Petraeus, Jill Kelley sex scandal... sex? - The Pentagon is big and sexy. But this scandal isn't. Also: how marvellous that 'Omnishambles' is word of the year, and advice Pippa could be proud of - 14th November
 * Oh, you poor middle classes, having to cut back on your lovely organic veg boxes - Osborne’s child benefit cuts have left the comfortably-off desperately trying to prove that they are anything but - 31st October
 * He’s pummelled Paxman. He’s battered Boulton. Now I’m rooting for a Conrad Black hat-trick - I prefer brazenness to crocodile tears, and after three years locked up with child sex offenders, Black probably won't be dreading Hislop and co one bit - 24th October
 * I’m 5ft 4in tall. If the intruder in my home is 6ft, then ‘disproportionate’ is my only hope - Chris Grayling's "clarification" of the laws regarding defending your home against burglars is confusing and unworkable - but also jolly exciting - 10th October
 * Sex predators be warned. Little girls grow into very angry women - Instead of faux-outrage and arse-covering about history, I’d be happier to hear strident plans to protect and listen to young women in the future - 3rd October
 * We're condemned by our DNA to betray our classes’ worst traits - Ingrained hostilities, pullings of rank, childish insults – they all bubble within us - 26th September
 * Thanks, Kate’s breasts: you’ve exposed the leering misogynist creeps - I'd feel violated by a weirdo with a camera if my nipples were across the pages of a rag - 19th September
 * The growing cult of Boris is not to be underestimated by his enemies - If you think Boris he can’t get to No 10, you’re wrong - 12th September
 * Andy dangles from a rope and we all yawn. It's time to downgrade this expensive blowhard - He's not vaguely a celebrity and his social circle is more of a risk to our reputation than butt-naked Prince Harry - 5th September
 * So cannabis affects your IQ. Or is it the hours spent watching Cheech and Chong? - Stoners just trudge on and on – often from teen years to adult life – in one long spliffy groundhog day - 29th August
 * The scourge of our high streets - It's been a long time coming, but at last they're reining in the chuggers - 23rd August
 * It's been a long time coming, but at last they're reining in the chuggers, the scourge of our high streets - The girls extract money through tactical simpering, the boys favour an Elizabethan fool-style jiggle - 22nd August


 * Soon the only thing uniting us will be Sharon's comeback in Eastenders - What have we learnt? That we can win tons of things. And that a Saudi woman could run the 800m in a headscarf and the sky didn't fall in - 10th August
 * Using ninja internet tactics, I finally enter Olympic Park - After five days of Olympic red-button surfing, it was time to actually leave the house and enter the Olympic Park - 1st August
 * Don't lecture the working classes on matters of personal morality - I paid my window cleaner £4 without so much as a request to see his receipts for chamois leather - 25th July
 * 3,066,607 followers, one false move - why do Ferdinand and the rest of the footballing tweeters bother? - Who, officially, is supposed to be offended? Cole? British people of colour? Mixed race people? All white people? - 18th July
 * A Nineties revival? Has everyone forgotten what was wrong with them the first time round? - The Spice Girls' feminism consisted of shouting 'Girl Power' and doing peace signs in latex catsuits - 3rd July
 * It's class war at Ascot – so give me Aintree's finest fillies and their £38 fascinators any day - Any men reading this column who don't know what a fascinator is, this is one time I am envious of your sex - 20th June
 * Ducks force-fed shortbread, teens drunk on cider, petrol vigilantes... that's the real countryside, Danny Boyle - No word of a mini Stonehenge. That would be too much like the climax of 'Spinal Tap' - 13th June
 * All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, Channel 4 - There is meaning, emotional depth, and tenderness in spray-tan colour charts - 9th June
 * Diamond Jubilee: Of all the things the Queen doesn't love, 'boats' must be top of the list - They are quite a niche interest. One isn't unpatriotic for finding them bloody tedious - 6th June
 * If you were on your first foreign trip for 24 years, would you want Bono to be a part of the package? - With friends like all of these people, Aung San Suu Kyi will wish that she’d stayed at home. Wouldn't you? - 30th May



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