Rosie Boycott



Profile:
Full name: Rosel Marie Boycott

Area of interest: Environmental, Gardening and Country matters, News and Current Affairs

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian; Daily Mail (less freq.)

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Website: Guardian.co / Rosie Boycott

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Representation: The Viney Agency; Knight Ayton Management

Networks: Facebook



Biography:
About:

Education: Cheltenham Ladies College; studied pure maths at University of Kent for one and a half terms before moving to London...

Career: Worked briefly at                                                         Friends magazine (Days in the Life... - Rosie on Friends magazine); co-founder of Spare Rib magazine in 1971 with Marsha Rowe; in 1973 co-founded Virago Press with Rowe and Carmen Callili; editor of Esquire 1992/96
 * editor, 1996-98: The Independent and The Independent on Sunday
 * editor, 1998-Jan 2001: Daily Express, see: Plaudits for Renaissance Rosie (A journalist through and through with a genuine interest in social affairs, Rosie Boycott is a great loss for the Express) by Jessica Hodgson and Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian, 25th January 2001

See also: My Life In Media: Rosie Boycott The Independent, 25th October 2004; The 'Rosie years' by Dan Milmo, The Guardian, 25th January 2001

Current position/role: journalist, columnist


 * also writes/written for: Daily Mail

Other roles/Main role: author, broadcaster

Other activities: media advisor for the Council of Europe; director Hay Festival

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Viewpoints/Insight:
 * 'Rosie Outlook' - She had a glittering career editing Esquire, the Independent on Sunday and the Independent. But it all went wrong at the Express when she found herself working for porn publisher Richard Desmond. Now, after a long gagging order, she tells Simon Hattenstone what really happened
 * 'My life as a smallholder' - Daily Mail, 22nd April 2007
 * 'Mud, sweat and tears' - 'She was a feminist pioneer, then a Fleet Street editor. Now she's an organic farmer and 'desperate' to work for Boris Johnson. Just who is Rosie Boycott, asks Decca Aitkenhead - The Guardian, 19th July 2008

Broadcast media:

Video: Various talk shows and arts programmes and regular appearances on news and current affairs programmes
 * IMDb

Controversy/Criticism:
 * So this is how serious the Sindie now is (Stephen Glover criticises Rosie Boycott over Neal Ascherson's departure from the Independent on Sunday), The Spectator, 17th January 1998
 * BBC News: Rosie Boycott defects 17th March 2002
 * New Statesman: profile by Quentin Letts, 24th June 2002
 * Campaigned for the decriminalisation of cannabis BBC News Rizla Rosie, Trafalgar Square speech, 28th March 1998
 * I know a joint is more dangerous now than in my day. But I still say legalise cannabis, The Independent, 8th January 2006
 * Skunk is dangerous. But I still believe in my campaign to decriminalise cannabis, The Independent, 18th March 2007

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Books & Debate:

 * Batty Bloomers and Boycott: A little etymology of eponymous words OCLC10073362, 1983
 * A nice girl like me: A story of the seventies OCLC12669504, 1984
 * The fastest diet OCLC600018148, 1984
 * The young Margaret Thatcher OCLC21032425, 1990
 * All for love OCLC1767729, fiction, 1992
 * Our farm: A year in the life of a smallholding OCLC176792944, 2007 (audio: Rosie Boycott – Life on the Farm BBC Womans Hour archive, 4th May 2007)

Latest work: 25x4: Channel 4 at 25 OCLC163329891, 2008

Speaking/Appearances: Hay Festival: Stuart Rose talks to Rosie Boycott (The CEO of M&S talks corporate social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and may well be asked about Twiggy), 23rd May 2008

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Column name: no column: contributor to comment is free... blog

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Website: Guardian.co / Rosie Boycott

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Articles:

 * London's achilles heel - Rosie Boycott: The capital imports 80% of its food and is vulnerable to shortages. But with political will, it has the potential to feed itself - 1st October 2008
 * The shocking reality - Rosie Boycott: Hay festival 2008: Naomi Klein's thesis on economic opportunism rings all too true. No wonder so many want to opt out - 25th May 2008
 * The war to end all wars - The climate change threat needs drastic action. Only a cross-party approach can deliver it - 20th May 2008
 * The queen feminist thinking twice about employing young women 18th May 2008 (The Sunday Times)
 * Only a radical change of diet can halt the looming food crises - Costs are high now, but rising oil prices will bring enormous problems for a world with appetites that it simply can't sustain - 28th March 2008
 * The world is still organised to meet the needs of men - As a shocking survey of careers after motherhood shows, real equality in our deeply sexist culture remains a pipe dream - 28th February 2008
 * Feminism has turned men into second-class citizens, but have women's victories come at a price? 7th February 2008 (Daily Mail)
 * Intellect, talent and character? Young women these days just aspire to be ‘sexy’ - 12th December 2007 (Daily Mail)
 * If we want green homes, we need to reward the owners - A new development of carbon-free homes and a model neighbourhood is the kind of scheme worth the government's money - 7th November 2007



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 * Wikipedia bio
 * Mud, sweat and tears interview by Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian, 19th July 2008