Suzanne Moore



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Full name: Suzanne Moore

Area of interest: Politics, society, personal politics

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian | The Mail on Sunday

Email: [mailto:suzanne.moore@guardian.co.uk suzanne.moore@guardian.co.uk]

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 * also writes/written for: Marxism Today, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent, New Statesman.

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 * The human heart is on the Left - That is why I had to resign from the New Statesman when I saw what Alastair Campbell did to it - 24th March 2009
 * Suzanne Moore: 'Vote for me, I'm flawed' - The leftwing, feminist journalist who changed tack and went to work for the Mail on Sunday is now standing as an MP. She explains why - 30th April 2010

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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpTh1FdMScQ - "I'm Suzanne Moore, and here's why I'm standing in Hackney South against Dianne Abbott."

Controversy/Criticism:
 * Columnists Suzanne Moore and Julie Burchill in Twitter storm after politically incorrect articles attacking transsexuals - Controversial newspaper columnist Julie Burchill has been accused of being transphobic after she wrote an article attacking transsexuals as 'bed-wetters in bad wigs' and 'd**** in chicks' clothing' - The Mail on Sunday, 14th January 2013
 * Minister calls for sacking of Observer columnist Burchill - and paper's editor. Article attacking transsexuals sparks anger as readers flock to complain. Greenslade Blog, 14th January 2013
 * Seeing red: the power of female anger - Every statistic available shows that women and children are being hit hardest by this recession. Outbursts of fury, politicised and scalpel sharp, are everywhere we look, says Suzanne Moore - New Statesman, 8th January 2013

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 * Looking for Trouble: On Shopping, Gender and the Cinema, 1991
 * Head over Heels OCLC 36173145, 1996

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Articles: 2017

 * If Trump tries a ‘sneak’ visit to Britain, he’ll see how much he is despised - Trump is now openly mocked and hated anywhere outside his protected space. This US presidency is tarnished, and the British government should want no part of it - 3rd July
 * Grenfell is political. The right can’t make that fact go away - Tory MPs attacked John McDonnell’s comments. But this disaster has destroyed the belief that politics has nothing to do with everyday life - 27th June
 * The Tories are bartering with women’s bodies to keep power. It’s disgusting - The ‘sell’ of the DUP as a bit socially conservative is a lie. The 1967 Abortion Act never applied to Northern Ireland, and the DUP may push to change it elsewhere - 12th June
 * The Sun and Mail tried to crush Corbyn. But their power over politics is broken - Voters saw through the tabloids’ hysterical attacks on the Labour leader. Now their feared editors just look like strange angry blokes selling hate - 10th June
 * Sorry Morrissey, but love and resistance are our best weapons against terror - His incendiary comments suggest the Mancunian hero’s journey from icon to embarrassment is complete. Hate is not the answer to masculinity twisted by radicalisation - 25th May
 * Facebook generates massive profits – it can afford to protect the public - The Guardian’s Facebook Files series has exposed the confused set of guidelines that underpin its moderation of images of suicide and non-sexual child abuse - 23rd May
 * Clothes moths are driving me mad. How can I be free of these insidious pests? - I know there are much bigger and more terrible things in the world, but these tiny creatures have come to represent a sense of doom and decay - 18th May
 * Theresa’s Tories don’t care about working people. Don’t swallow the rebrand - From employment tribunal costs to the ludicrous offer of unpaid leave for carers, the government’s attitude to workers is crystal clear - 16th May
 * The architect of austerity has a new Farrow & Ball chillax cave. Good for him - Between David Cameron’s £25,000 posh shed and Theresa May’s comments about food banks, Tory attitudes to wealth have been shameless this weekend - 2nd May
 * In dark times, this image has a glorious message – resistance is not futile - The picture of Saffiyah Khan standing up to an EDL protester in Birmingham is not just joyful – it is an uplifting reminder that one person can make a difference - 11th April
 * Labour is weak and immoral – as shown by Livingstone’s refusal to apologise - The party’s failure to deal adequately with Ken Livingstone’s antisemitism strengthens its slow collapse, helmed by Jeremy Corbyn’s tragic incompetence - 6th April
 * A tampon tax is bad enough. Using it to fund anti-abortionists is a disgrace - Women have no choice about having periods. To give tax raised on sanitary products to a group that seeks to limit their choice further is unconscionable - 4th April
 * EU nurses no longer want to work in Britain. Brexit is poisoning the NHS - The number of nurses signing up to work in the UK has dropped dramatically. Is it any wonder when Theresa May’s government is so hostile to EU nationals? - 28th March
 * This is a battle about who owns the soul of the Labour party - A secret recording reveals that even Momentum has given up on Corbyn. Does anyone inside Labour have any idea how ludicrous this all looks? - 20th March
 * Brexit was an English vote for independence – you can’t begrudge the Scots the same - The English were prepared to vote in a way that would disrupt the union, so it’s no surprise that the UK is at risk - 16th March
 * Mhairi Black is right – Westminster politics is defunct - The young SNP MP has described the House of Commons as outdated, arrogant and out-of-touch. We should ask her how to change it - 13th March
 * Trump’s Sweden tweets expose the essential problem with social media - The fantasy of a democratised communication has given way to all kinds of abuse, including misogyny and death threats – and trolling by Donald Trump - 21st February
 * Women in public life are now being openly bullied. How has this become normal? - Diane Abbott isn’t the only female MP enduring more sexist and racist abuse than usual – and it seems to be completely accepted - 14th February
 * Hen dos are a deeply sad and conservative tradition – like marriage itself - The threat that women’s liberation would destroy the nuclear family has been neutered. Matrimony has been repackaged as an experience we all must enjoy - 8th February
 * The dream of home ownership for all is over. Even the Tories recognise this - This week’s announcement is significant for acknowledging that leaving housing to market forces results in crisis - 6th February
 * Anxiety is numbing – but if we're going to beat Trump we need a survival strategy - It’s easy to dismiss self-care as trite but in unstable times we need to think about how we all get through this - 2nd February
 * This Trump petition shows UK citizens will not bend a knee to hate - The message is clear: the president does not warrant the red-carpet treatment of a state visit. He is not held in high regard, nor is he head of a respected government - 31st January
 * Delicious roast spuds are part of the good life. Poor cancer advice isn’t - Potentially carcinogenic acrylamides lurking in our favourite foods is actually old news. This latest episode just proves how vulnerable we still are to scare stories - 23rd January
 * Delicious roast spuds are part of the good life. Poor cancer advice isn’t - Potentially carcinogenic acrylamides lurking in our favourite foods is actually old news. This latest episode just proves how vulnerable we still are to scare stories - 23rd January
 * Women will march against Trump. We may lose, but it’s still worth it - We’ve been told that the Women’s March is pointless, confused, counterproductive. All the more reason to make sure we are seen and heard - 30th January
 * Labour’s Corbyn reboot shows exactly why he has to go - This was the week that we were given the ‘real’ Jeremy. But for populism to work, it has to be popular in a way Corbyn can never be - 12th January
 * I do not recognise the stereotype of John Berger as a dour Marxist – his work embodied hope - This seminal writer and critic’s way of seeing was a way of being; he was a storyteller of searing moral clarity - 5th January
 * Binge drinking happens. The problem is binge moralising on women - The new year shaming of young working-class women is a staple of tabloid culture. This voyeuristic morality policing also hides the true story - 3rd January



Articles: 2016

 * Zsa Zsa Gabor knew femininity was a performance. She played it perfectly - Flamboyantly glamorous, arch and acerbic about both money and love, the actor’s most fabulous role was as herself - 19th December
 * What’s the point of trousergate? It’s a way of dressing up another Brexit row - The furore over the PM’s leather trousers is displacement activity for addressing the split between Theresa May and the significant number of Tories who want a soft Brexit - 13th December
 * Last Tango’s abuse reveals the broken promise of the 1970s sexual revolution - Before she died, Maria Schneider spoke about the butter rape scene taking place without her consent – but nothing happened. Her plight must not be forgotten - 5th December
 * Why did women vote for Trump? Because misogyny is not a male-only attribute - Women were not the only ones to vote against their own self-interest in the US elections, but our complicity is is at least explainable - 17th November
 * With Steve Bannon, Trump’s signed up the meme-makers of misogyny - Breitbart News is contemptuous of feminism – and abortion providers are routinely compared to Holocaust murderers. Now Roe v Wade is under threat - 13th November
 * We don't need Bono to tell us how to do Glamour properly - You might have expected the U2 frontman to politely decline Glamour magazine’s woman of the year award – but why miss an opportunity to patronise? - 3rd November
 * Attack Michael Gove by all means. But not for his parenting - It’s fine to leave an 11-year-old boy alone for an evening with suitable safeguards in place. The hysteria about this supposed neglect is ridiculous - 1st November
 * The backlash against feminism has hit a new low with Donald Trump - If this was a dude-only election, Trump would win by a landslide. His rise echoes the three-decade pushback against gains made by women - 13th October
 * So Trump has crossed a line? His views are as old as misogyny itself - Republican grandees who are shocked by their presidential candidate should have woken up to these attitudes years ago - 9th October
 * The message of Brexit was mixed. Now we are told it was simply a referendum on immigration - For all the talk of being the party of the workers, the only ones the Tories seem to care about are white English people - 6th October
 * Who cares who Elena Ferrante really is? She owes us nothing - The Italian author’s closely guarded anonymity has been blown by an idiotic bin rummager, as though she were a fraud or criminal - 3rd October
 * Labour needs to address the issues of the present before it becomes the Retro party - From rethinking nationalism to making the case for state spending, the party needs a new philosophy. Otherwise what is it for? - 29th September
 * The ‘right’ to sell golliwogs is not something we should be fighting for in 2016 - There is little ambiguity about the golliwog; they fully dehumanise black people and their comeback is a reminder that racism is not a thing of the past - 22nd September
 * Refuges save lives – so why doesn’t the government care that they’re closing? - We are experiencing an epidemic of domestic violence, but now two-thirds of refuges are under threat. Can we live with the consequences? - 5th September
 * At what point are women allowed to look their age? - From cosmetic surgery to HRT, we pursue almost anything that makes us appear youthful because we cannot talk about the reality of ageing - 25th August
 * Rio has showcased a post-Brexit nationalism the left should embrace - Nationalism need not be racist and inward-looking. The Great Britain of the recent Olympics was inclusive, warm, sentimental and hardworking - 23rd August
 * Leonard Cohen managed that rare thing: to talk with clarity about death - The songwriter’s letter to Marianne Ihlen in her last hours was beautiful, poetic and to the point. Yet so often we deal with death in an inane, mawkish way - 8th August
 * Being a ‘difficult’ woman is good – but it can disguise a ruthless authoritarianism - It is important to understand how Margaret Thatcher used her gender, instead of pretending it was irrelevant. Both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are Thatcher MK II - 6th July
 * Our male leaders are out of control. Step forward the sensible women - The hysteria unleashed by Brexit is engulfing male politicians in a frenzy of back-stabbing and emotion. Self-controlled female MPs have never looked better - 4th July
 * London as a separate city-state? The capital needs to check its privilege - Wanting to be rid of those horrible leave voters in the provinces is unbelievably smug and narcissistic. And remember, snobs: class contempt works both ways - 26th June
 * What does this vote mean if one feels utterly powerless in every other way? - This is a false choice between two different, but very similar elites. In the privacy of the ballot box, I will make my decision - 23rd June
 * Omar Mateen’s domestic violence was a clue to his murderous future - The authorities must recognise that men who abuse their partners are showing a pattern of violence which could have much broader repercussions - 14th June
 * Never mind a level playing field – private education is guarded by an electric fence - Employers are told to spot ‘potential not polish’, but polish is about the tiny, monstrous ways that class functions – deliberately baffling to outsiders - 2nd June
 * This EU referendum debate is farcical. No wonder I’m still undecided - The discussion seems to have become the province of oddballs who lack conviction living in a retread of Dad’s Army – and those who aren’t sure how to vote may not bother - 30th May
 * Inequality is destroying all the markers of adulthood, from home ownership to marriage - Young people are still sold the story of growing up – leaving home, a secure job, a life partner and children. But the failures of capitalism have changed everything - 26th May
 * Sophie Trudeau has challenged the fairytale that women can do it all - The wife of Canada’s prime minister has been criticised for saying she needs more staff to carry out her duties. The myth of high-profile women doing everything is much more damaging - 17th May
 * Zac Goldsmith deserves to lose the mayoral race – and be put out to pasture - His campaign to run London has gradually revealed him to be just the sort of shallow opportunist public life could do without - 3rd May
 * The Hillsborough verdict shatters the fantasy that class war doesn’t exist - The ‘unlawful killing’ of the 96 football fans was a crime, committed in a very real conflict. The police, the establishment, parts of the press, they were all in it together - 28th April
 * Prince didn’t write about sex. He was sex - The way the musician played with and utilised the feminine made him a seductive boundary breaker in whom funk, filth and faith came together - 23rd April
 * LSD has improved my life, so why should the state decide whether I can take it or not? - At a time when mindfulness and every other yoga class promises nirvana, why are we so afraid that we could reach transcendence through a pill? - 14th April
 * The Archers’ Rob and Helen: an everyday story of domestic abuse - The peculiar horror of this plotline is that it is going out into a real world where abuse of this kind is increasing, and help for victims is being slashed - 4th April
 * Iain Duncan Smith has revealed the empty truth of compassionate conservatism - IDS’s resignation pulls back the curtain on the Wizard Oz-borne, showing an illusionist whose tricks are hollow - 21st March
 * Twenty things to do in your 20s - See the world, protest and have sex with unsuitable people. But above all, be free - 18th March
 * The Brexit ‘cock up’ has exposed the real Boris Johnson – it’s not pretty - In the furore over plans to gag City Hall staff, the control freak who lies beneath the London mayor’s careful facade is finally being revealed - 8th March
 * Older women are invisible in the workplace. What are we meant to do until the age of 67? - It was great to see Jenny Beavan troll the Oscars ego-fest, but she is an exception. Most women are sent out to pasture long before their ever-retreating pension arrives - 3rd March
 * Why not sleep with the enemy? Politics is all about seduction - There is no point in campaigning if anyone who thinks differently is to be spurned - 11th February
 * Black Pride at the Super Bowl? Beyoncé embodies a new political moment - From the Oscars to Super Bowl 50, political anger over race discrimination is front and centre. Black artists aren’t asking to be ‘let in’ to the culture – they are the culture - 9th February
 * The NHS embodies our connection to the state. No wonder the Tories want to break it - Demand is increasing for our underfunded NHS. But government waffle about targets and efficiency will not make tax truths disappear - 4th February
 * Banksy’s refugee piece shows us how to protest – and grieve - Stik and Stewy are other street artists addressing issues such as housing and the migration crisis. This isn’t antisocial – it’s deeply social - 26th January
 * Don’t deride those who are mourning David Bowie – this grief is serious and rational - For some, a hole has been ripped in the universe and we are lost. Our sadness doesn’t mean we don’t care about Madaya or Istanbul – but what if there is never anyone else like him? - 14th January
 * My David Bowie, alive forever - Bowie was personal, for me and millions of others. As we were trying to become ourselves, he showed us endless possibilities. No one can take that away - 11th January
 * Decluttering can’t save us from the consumerist mess we’ve made - Marie Kondo’s bestselling books sell tidying as a spiritual experience. But liberating ourselves from stuff is about more than just a neat sock drawer - 6th January



Articles: 2015

 * Targeted painkillers zero in on one vital organ – the wallet - It is no surprise that Reckitt Benckiser could mislead customers with its Nurofen Specific range. When ill or in pain, we will pay for any promise of a magic bullet - 14th December
 * Banning things isn’t the way to confront the far-right - We need to be bigger than Donald Trum​p and the​ hate-speech merchants ​who want to close down the world - 10th December
 * Bullying isn’t OK anywhere else, so why is it tolerated in politics? - The ubiquity of bullying in British politics makes me wonder why anyone would take it up as a profession. I can’t wait for Corbyn’s new, kinder politics to begin - 1st December 2015
 * The Paris attackers cannot kill the one thing they hate most: joy - Like many, as events unfolded I experienced a range of emotions. But I’m left with a feeling of joie de vivre which conquers darkness time and again - 17th November
 * The Paris attackers cannot kill the one thing they hate most: joy - Like many, as events unfolded I experienced a range of emotions. But I’m left with a feeling of joie de vivre which conquers darkness time and again - 16th November
 * It's good to be genderqueer but don't forget the sexual radicals who paved the way - We can all sleep with whom we want and identify how we want – but the queer pioneers who have walked the walk for decades were truly groundbreaking - 5th November
 * Now austerity is hitting strivers, how will the Tories sell it? - The party is split over tax-credit cuts: some Conservative MPs are deeply uneasy about rhetoric suggesting working families won’t be worse off next April - 19th October
 * All-women shortlists are seen as terrifying. But so is the status quo - It’ll be 2055 before we get gender equality in the House of Commons. Politics already has an invisible quota system – one that shuts down diversity - 15th October
 * Liberals on pot? That’s exactly what we need - We need a party that believes in personal freedom – and we need to end the hypocrisy on drug laws. Step forward, the Lib Dems - 12th October
 * Why does Corbyn's kinder politics feel like a slow-motion punch in the face? - Being for kindness is as vague as being against austerity. Labour’s conference was cathartic for the party, but it left me with a nosebleed - 1st October
 * Yes, selfies and shark attacks can kill. But what we really fear is old age - As we seek to prolong our lives, we shut old people away, only happy to see them if they are healthy and happy - 24th September
 * The David Cameron #piggate storm is a sideshow from the real issues. It’s certainly effective - The astonishing allegations about the prime minister and a dead pig are unlikely to be forgotten quickly. I suspect that might be why we’re hearing about them - 21st September
 * As Jeremy Corbyn was anointed leader, not one female voice was heard - The new brocialism cares deeply about women’s issues of course – just not enough to elect an actual woman - 12th September
 * Debates about the right age to send kids to school preoccupy those who are already advantaged - Complaints about the effect of summer babies being left behind at school may come from the ‘worried well’ of parenting. But all children start school too early. Let them play - 10th September
 * The grassroots response to the refugee crisis should shame the British government - This mass of people in transit is the biggest story of our time. Small gestures won’t do much, but they can connect you to what it is to be human - 3rd September
 * The heroes of the French train attack have given us all a gift – hope - When senseless brutality dominates the news, it’s easy to be overcome by despair. The actions of these men remind us that we don’t have to be impotent bystanders - 24th August
 * You should be able to express doubt about Corbyn without risking vitriol - Gordon Brown warned about Jeremy Corbyn winning the Labour leadership race. But the backlash against him has exposed a nasty side to the current debate - 18th August
 * Where’s the socialism that involves sharing life’s joys? - In Labour we now have an entire party going into some spaced-out detox mode - 13th August
 * We have two options. Tip properly – or protest for better pay for waiters - Protesters are targeting Pizza Express for keeping 8p out of every £1 left as a credit card tip. Waiting and bar staff deserve proper tips or a decent wage - 10th August
 * Cilla Black wasn’t just the girl next door - She shone as a pop star and presenter because of her unstarry warmth and wit, but the former cloakroom attendant was a smart, professional TV pioneer - 3rd August
 * The real Lord Sewel scandal is financial, not sexual - Forget the salmon-coloured bra – what really shocks is the extent to which the peer’s ‘private life’ is subsidised by the taxpayer - 27th July
 * euro ‘family’ has shown it is capable of real cruelty'' - Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker seek to justify their Greek bailout deal, but what kind of family asset-strips one of its members in broad daylight? - 13th July
 * As Yanis Varoufakis revs off into the sunset, it’s his substance I’ll remember - The media was mesmerised by his motorbike, but Greece’s former finance minister inspired ordinary people by the way he faced down Europe - 6th July
 * Fear-mongering is the enemy of democracy – from Greece to Cameron’s EU referendum - The Tories always use Project Fear to get their way at the ballot box, and the same tactic is used when the Greek people are asked to choose between the hell they know and one they can only imagine - 1st July
 * We all love Superdrug in my house, and here’s why - Who would’ve thought Boo Boo Fluff Fur-Effect nails could generate so much profit? Superdrug is reaping the rewards in rough times for understanding teenage girls - 29th June
 * Taking divorce out of the courts is not an attack on marriage - A plan to make divorce more streamlined will not encourage couples to split – it merely reflects the reality of our changing family patterns - 22nd June
 * The poshness test lasts a lifetime – to believe otherwise is fantasy - A few frauds with ‘polytechnnic’ accents might break through the class ceiling, but today’s elite prefers to reproduce itself by recruiting people just like them - 15th June
 * If your idea of hell is sitting next to Kate Moss on an easyJet flight, you must be dead inside - Women cannot enjoy themselves, especially charming and tipsy ones, without provoking outrage and moralising - 8th June
 * Prescribing the correct footwear is idiotic. You can’t stop a cheap thrill - Red-carpet shoes, walking shoes, feminist shoes. Someone, somewhere has decided the rules, and it wasn’t me - 22nd May
 * The unions are acting like an overbearing partner – Labour shouldn’t fear divorce - For democracy – both internal and external – to prevail, the party must assert itself in this sometimes dysfunctional relationship - 19th May
 * Working-class Tories are not just turkeys voting for Christmas - The electorate has turned away from Labour, and the utter lack of comprehension about why people vote Tory, or don’t vote at all, has been galling - May 15th
 * By Friday we’ll be reduced to bystanders at a revoltingly macho political stare-off - What happens next will no longer be the business of the voters; we will be expected to sit patiently until we are told who is governing us - 7th May
 * If Russell Brand is pushing 40, who represents the actual youth? - My generation has cannibalised youth culture, but we can never represent it politically. No wonder the young are alienated from the ballot box - 30th April
 * On immigration, the language of genocide has entered the mainstream - Desperate people die at sea and are talked of as insects, not human at all. This is the natural conclusion of the toxic attitudes on proud display in British politics - 21st April
 * Extending right to buy is the Tories’ zombie Thatcherism at its worst - This nonsensical ransacking of social housing is responsible for so many of our current problems. What about the right to security, to tenancies that last, to rents that don’t suddenly zoom up? - 14th April
 * Spousal loyalty and nice frocks? This election doesn’t bode well for women - The leaders’ wives have been wheeled out but it’s the big female politicians we need to see – or maybe even our own women’s party - 30th March
 * Ukip is in meltdown – and not because of the protesting ‘scum’ - To understand why the party is falling apart, its relationship to truth, bullying and serious harassment needs to be examined - 23rd March
 * Grant Shapps: just how gullible does he think voters are? - The Tory party chairman’s ‘Michael Green’ alter ego was a problem. But it is his frantic semantic dissembling about having two jobs that looks dodgy - 17th March
 * From India and Turkey to Oxford, we live in a perpetual state of war against women - Equality of the most basic kind cannot exist when a woman’s life and her words are always worth less than a man’s - 5th March
 * Mohammed Emwazi, a very ordinary monster - We can stop contributing to Isis’s propaganda efforts and refuse to promote Emwazi as a celebrity jihadi or icon of evil - 2nd March
 * Why are we questioning the loyalty of British Muslims? We never ask anyone else - I hate the union flag and I would scrap the royal family. But no one asks me to prove my Britishness - 26th February
 * Our politics is old and crumbling: is it any wonder the young won't vote? - We wouldn’t let a class of eight-year-old behave like politicians at PMQs. Young people need real alternatives to get them engaged - 12th February
 * The Baftas don’t even bother with tokenism any more - The Baftas’ lack of ethnic minorities and working-class people used at least to play on the organisers’ conscience. Now they’ve taken a step back from that - 10th February
 * How can politicians court the female vote when they don’t know how we live? - For five years women have been at the frontline of cuts. No wonder half of us feel no connection with the party leaders - 2nd February
 * Single parents don’t need anonymous generosity but public respect - I’m glad a mum’s efforts were praised. Still, the ultimate kindness would be to relieve us of the top-down blaming for societal ills - 26th January
 * Inequality isn't inevitable, it's engineered. That's how the 1% have taken over - First thoughts: Unless we wake up to the fact that wild inequality isn't just an unavoidable byproduct of growth, the gap will keep on widening - 19th January
 * Je suis Charlie: in this great gathering the people have reclaimed the streets - Sunday’s marches in France reaffirmed that difference creates strength, and that our common enemy is the tyranny of dogma - 12th January
 * The Charlie Hebdo killers must not silence us. We should ridicule them - The gunmen behind the Paris murders want to shut down our freedom of expression. Our response should be to openly disrespect them - 7th January
 * No football club should touch Ched Evans, even if he does ever apologise - First thoughts: The argument for rehabilitation and second chances simply don’t wash in such a high-profile case as Evans’s - 5th January



Articles: 2014

 * Cereal Killer cafe is just a symptom of gentrification, not the cause - First thoughts: The media outrage over hipster brothers selling expensive cereal in a poor borough is overblown and masks more complex issues - 15th December
 * Yes divorce is bad for children, but let's not fetishise marriage at all costs - First thoughts: Is parents staying together through gritted teeth really more beneficial to children? - 24th November
 * Spare me the selfie school of feminism: women always give up too much information - Every generation of women create ways to hate themselves and amplify their anxieties in public – and it's time to stop - 13th November
 * What the Tories won’t tell you in their ‘transparent’ tax statement - First thoughts: Telling the public how much tax is spent on “welfare”, without breaking it down, is wilfully misleading and only justifies further cuts - 3rd November
 * On immigration, David Cameron has joined Ukip's paranoia bandwagon - First thoughts: José Manuel Barroso has exposed the PM's slapdash policy, which only replicates the anxiety of the electorate - 20th October
 * Russell Brand’s revolution or a meaningless two-party system? Politics should be about more than this - The Scottish referendum and rise of Ukip has shown that engagement is high and small parties can thrive, but still the political class wants things to stay the same - 16th October
 * NHS staff are there for us in times of need. Today we must be there for them - First thoughts: This arrogant government has ignored the advice of an independent pay review and that's why workers are striking. They need a living wage - 14th October
 * Does free speech give us the right to anonymously troll strangers? - First thoughts: The McCann abuse dossier shows that, without any sense of accountability, we create an antisocial media in which the same people get shouted down - 7th October
 * Single mothers are the real casualties in Cameron’s class war - By making the poorest pay for tax cuts, the Tories are clearly happy to see lone parents – and their kids – eat toast for dinner - 2nd October
 * Post-referendum, English nationalism is the elephant in the room - The Westminster stitch-up is a British construct. The left needs to accept that English identity is more nuanced: messy, funny, irrational and workable - 25th September
 * Labour's child benefit stance maintains the momentum of Tory cruelty - First thoughts: Ed Balls' continued pursuit of Iain Duncan Smith's war on women is in the name of responsibility, but it's an abandonment of the party's core values - 23rd September
 * This is Scotland's velvet revolution and we should listen to the people shouting - Ignore the strange dry-eyed weeping from the English – it's nothing more than British imperialism. Now is the time to take a leap toward self-rule - 18th September
 * The Scottish independence debate has given politicians what they say they want – engagement - Those in charge are campaigning simply to stay in charge, but Scotland can flourish as an independent nation, and England too, if that’s the outcome - 10th September
 * England's love-bombing of Scotland is a pathetic afterthought - First thoughts: A month ago, with a no vote taken for granted, Westminster did not care much. Now the panic has set in - 8th September
 * GQ’s meaningless men’s awards give Tories the chance to hang out with the A-list - This year’s controversy was all about Tony Blair’s laughable philanthropy gong. But isn’t it time that someone brought up the magazine’s endless love-in with the Conservative party? - 4th September
 * Poor children are seen as worthless, as Rotherham's abuse scandal shows - The bigger picture is not, as the right claim, about ethnicity but systematic abuse of girls and boys by powerful men - 28th August
 * Mindfulness is all about self-help. It does nothing to change an unjust world - Why are we trying to think less when we need to think more? The neutered, apolitical approach of mindfulness ignores the structural difficulties we live with - 6th August
 * The case of baby Gammy shows surrogacy for the repulsive trade it is - Pattaramon Chanbua is another victim of this twisted version of slavery, in which poor women are disposable receptacles for the privileged - 4th August
 * The decay of women is obsessively charted. Now men are finding out how it feels - I am all for equal-opportunity desire, but I have no wish for men to be subjected to the same pressures as women - 31st July
 * If Tulisa Contostavlos were middle class, she wouldn't face such scorn - First thoughts: Tulisa is branded by the media as a chav and therefore almost anything can be said about her. Surely this is the true crime here - 29th July
 * Justine Thornton is a person, not Ed Miliband's 'secret weapon' - Thornton is a successful, independent woman in her own right and should be treated that way, not just as the labour leader's wife or a political strategy - 24th July
 * Sharing pictures of corpses on social media isn't the way to bring a ceasefire - First thoughts: I don't need you to tweet any more images of dead children – spreading them only devalues the currency of shared humanity - 21st July
 * Three extra women in cabinet is hardly a whiteguymageddon - The mere hint of equal opportunities reveals the deep fear in the body politic - 17th July
 * The church and the Tories have finally realised they need a woman's touch - First thoughts: We're run by small communities of men who bus in a few women and call it diversity - 14th July
 * Harriet Harman is right about sexism in politics – let's start a feminist party - The fourth wave of feminism, from Caitlin Moran to Kimberlé Crenshaw, has energised young people, but now it needs to attack our political establishment - 10th July
 * Why the impunity of male power is the big theme of the child abuse scandal - Something strange is happening in the maelstrom of moral panic – a collective refusal to analyse how patriarchy works - 9th July
 * With Rolf Harris convicted, the silence around sexual abuse is being disturbed - Never mind 'the 70s was a different era' – these cases matter. Not least to those being abused now, for whom it's not too late to speak out - 1st July
 * Rebekah Brooks: only the fools in charge of us would fall for her brand of fake intimacy - In the spin cycle that dominates our democracy, journalists and politicians are way too close. That relationship, exposed by the phone hacking scandal, makes incest look positively vanilla - 26th June
 * Politicians may slug it out, but their distance from the electorate is widening - We need a bigger gene pool of real people in politics, with local knowledge, openness, and good communication - 19th June
 * It makes liberals nervous – but good English is about social mobility, not Ukippery - Most of us think language skills are a vital part of Britishness, according to a survey. But employability and liberty are the real issues - 17th June
 * 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think - By Suzanne Moore and a load of kids - 14th June
 * The guinea pigs in Gove's model madrasas are our children. We never agreed to this experiment - If Michael Gove's exam-obsessed education policy had been presented as a coursework essay, it would have failed - 12th June
 * Bowe Bergdahl: hero or traitor? War doesn't allow an easy answer - How can we be clear about what is heroic and what is traitorous when the mission is on ever-shifting sands? Bergdahl may have been delusional, but the whole game of war is delusional - 5th June
 * Twelve ways to fix politics - Our politicians have lost all credibility. If they want us to engage with them, they had better mend their ways - 29th May
 * Never mind the threat of Ukip, the electorate has been consumed with anger and alienated for years - For all those people who cling to the wreckage of Farage's party, most of us just can't be bothered - 22nd May
 * Endless nips and tucks, Botox and filler: is this what a woman's right to choose has mutated into? - The bloated faces of so many of our current stars do not speak to me of empowerment: instead, I see powerlessness and women masking age with an odd veneer - 15th May
 * Jeremy Clarkson and Ukip are not mavericks, but the bullying face of the establishment - The discussion about whether Clarkson is personally racist is a sideshow. He is part of a group seeking not only to put a brake on social progress, but to drag us backwards - 7th May
 * Let's call Help to Work what it really is: punishment of the undeserving poor - The government's scheme undermines the very idea of unemployment benefit and demonises the vulnerable people it should be assisting - 1st May
 * Nigel Farage: a pustule of resentment on the body politic - Politicans talk about ordinary people, but never to them. Into this vacuum steps the likes of Ukip. The left must take note - 24th April
 * My old council flat sold for half a million – this madness can't end well - Crash or not, this property bubble is devastating. London is being hollowed out, turned into a playground for international finance, its communities left to hang - 2nd April
 * I'm all for 'weird' Ed Miliband if it means a genuine alternative - The Labour leader must spell out his differences on class, age and gender and give a future to the under-30s. That way he will offer real change - 27th March
 * So the young feel defeated and trapped. Guess what? So do their parents - When the young have no jobs, no houses and no hope it is not just a problem for them. We are all in this together - 20th March
 * Clarissa Dickson Wright didn't just survive an abusive father, she outed him - Hers was a life of joy and raucousness, but it's Dickson Wright's formidable bravery and integrity that I'd like to toast - 18th March
 * Bob Crow knew exactly who the enemy was – the boss class - The right's efforts to claim Bob Crow as one of their own only highlight the great chasm between us and them - 13th March
 * Help! I'm being stalked by an online supermarket that wants a 'relationship' - I only wanted to order some groceries, but now I discover that I have forgotten our 'anniversary'. Does this kind of harrassment-marketing really work? - 6th March
 * Working-class kids shouldn't have to be more middle class to 'fit in' - Asking kids to be something other than what they are is to assume working-class culture doesn't exist. It does and it is not one thing - 4th March
 * The Tories pretend to be the workers' party while hanging on to elitism - In all the babble about hardworking families with squeezed middles and alarm clocks, who does represent workers? Well, not the Conservatives - 27th February
 * I'm sick of awards ceremonies – they simply reflect our culture of entitlement - These formulaic dos have replaced the debutante balls where women all wear long frocks. I haven't worn a full-length dress since I was a bridesmaid - 20th February
 * Stuart Hall was a voice for misfits everywhere. That's his real legacy - The 'godfather of multiculturalism' provided a vital intellectual home for those of us who just didn't fit in - 13th February
 * In the tawdry benefits debate, no politician speaks of moral obligations – so I will - Take away our obligations to each other as a society, and the welfare state becomes expendable. So who is fighting for it? - 6th February
 * The kangaroo court of Twitter is no place to judge Woody Allen - Dylan Farrow's accusations of abuse against her father could encourage forgotten victims to speak out - 3rd February
 * The royal family need a new boiler and the right want us to pay for it - Nothing symbolises stagnation, immovable social barriers and hierarchy quite like the royal family. No wonder George Osborne is leaping to their defence - 30th January
 * Back in the day, young reporters were told to wear short skirts to attract the eye of MPs - Westminster has always been a boys' club and the Lib Dems have done nothing to change the culture of power - 23rd January
 * My guide to the perfect January retox - Ditch the detox junk and chia seeds and pour yourself a bloody mary. It's even got one of your mythical five a day in it … - 14th January
 * Saving our fire brigades isn't about sentimentality, it's about life and death - There may be fewer fires now, but what about flooding? Or roof collapses? This emergency service is being dangerously cut - 9th January



Articles 2013:

 * Why non-believers need rituals too - To move many away from religion, atheism has to weave itself into the social fabric and shed its image of dour grumpiness - 27th December
 * My tips for surviving Christmas - Stop aspiring to someone else's fantasy – and have a recipe for dishwasher vodka to hand - 19th December
 * Reclassifying ketamine is more fiddling while the crack pipe burns - Why can't we have an honest conversation about drugs? - 12th December
 * So my mushy head is 'hardwired' for girly things, is it? If this is science, I am Richard Dawkins - Why do studies reinforce stereotypes about the male versus female brain, when the truth is that we are not so very different? - 5th December
 * Boris Johnson's philosophy isn't just elitist – it's sinister - London's mayor opened his mouth and wrote off a whole swath of the populus. Yet he's just spelling out the ideology of the ruling class - 28th November 2013
 * The British are actively hostile towards young people - Politicians worry about the youth vote, but the catastrophe is that we have disempowered a whole generation - 21st November
 * Lily Allen says her video for Hard Out Here isn't to do with race. She is wrong - Lily Allen says her video for Hard Out Here is nothing to do with race. She is wrong - 14th November
 * Don't vilify Russell Brand – he's right to demand the impossible - I'm no fan of the comedian – but I am delighted at the way he has given the political establishment a massive kick up the behind - 7th November
 * Postmodernism killed the avant garde. Lady Gaga is no substitute for Lou Reed - Grayson Perry is right to say the art world has flattened out. The family friendly gyrations on The X Factor have left me in mourning for a time when transgression was not simply a marketing technique - 30th October
 * The worship of children brings only misery - We revere our children as infants but neglect them as soon as they approach adulthood. No wonder they're miserable - 24th October
 * Who cares if George Osborne did, or did not, take cocaine in his youth? - Politics is hypocritical and miserable – these witchhunts for evidence of drug use prevents a useful and informed discussion - 15th October
 * Sex is everywhere you look, but the semiology of smut never changes - All this public banging on about sex is joyless. People who really enjoy each other just get on with it
 * David Bowie's top-100 reading list is virtually poetry in itself - From Yukio Mishima to George Orwell, Angela Carter, James Baldwin and Viz, the rock icon's top-100 book list has actually managed to make me love him even more - 3rd October
 * Why I hate Bridget Jones - Help, Bridget's back. She's a widow but she's as vapid, consumerist and self-obsessed as ever. I don't buy this anti-feminist fiction - 1st October
 * Party politics needs to loosen up – the rest of us have - I don't want to be governed by people who have never made mistakes, never had the 'wrong' kind of sex or taken drugs. I propose Uslut, a party that actually knows how to party - 26th September
 * Nick Clegg's speech was politics at its most cynical - Vote Liberal Democrat because they'll keep things ticking over? And they like being in government? What a depressing speech - 20th September
 * Back up all your data – but memories worth keeping will live on in your mind - Our phones have become address books, diaries and visual records of our lives, but all that is digital melts into air - 19th September
 * What happened to class action? - Sixty per cent of us still identify ourselves as working class – but there are few ways to express it alongside other people -12th September
 * The Femen scandal shows how muddled we are about men and feminism - Men can be feminists, of course, but they should walk alongside us rather than trying to take charge, as Victor Svyatski did - 5th September
 * The death of the middle class will undermine our democracy - The squeezed middle yelps. Indeed, on the latest statistics, it is gasping for air. Will they riot, or form an orderly queue to loot Debenhams? - 29th August
 * My advice for the Labour party - Ed Miliband could dismantle the Tory feelgood factor with some simple questions to voters. What he shouldn't do is bring back Peter Mandelson or Alastair Campbell - 15th August
 * 10 rules for managing your penis - Recent news stories involving sexting, wine, toasters, politicians and penises indicate some men need a refresher course, so here are my 10 rules for keeping your penis - 8th August
 * Twitter boycott is my small symbolic gesture against online misogyny - Right now it is possible to threaten to kill and rape women without fear of the consequences. Twitter must wake up - 4th August
 * The backlash against feminism aims to preserve the 'manosphere' - This pre-emptive strike against equality comes from a rightwing establishment that needs it pointing out to them that women haven't won - 1st August
 * Yes, porn can be vile and degrading but an authoritarian crackdown won't work - David Cameron's proposals are a sop – censorship never helps the powerless. Let's have a real debate on abuse and consent - 22nd July 2013
 * Jeremy Hunt and IDS should take heed of Churchill: failure is not fatal - To admit failure takes courage – but our politicians can't allow that in their fantasy world of choice and opportunity - 18th July 2013
 * For all the talk of reform, ordinary people have lost interest in party politics - Ed Miliband's gamble over party funding might work, it might not, but to the disenchanted majority of people, it doesn't matter - 11th July 2013
 * When states monitored their citizens we used to call them authoritarian. Now we think this is what keeps us safe - The internet is being snooped on and CCTV is everywhere. How did we come to accept that this is just the way things are? - 4th July
 * I saw the Rolling Stones. In the 60s - Until this year, festival grump Suzanne Moore had been content to watch from her sofa and leave the 'regimented fun' of Glastonbury to her children. Could she be converted? - 1st July
 * Just remember what many Tories thought of Nelson Mandela in the apartheid years - Soon we will be inundated with heartfelt speeches – but we mustn't let those who opposed Mandela's struggle pretend they didn't - 27th June
 * The state won't protect our children from porn – education is the answer - As we teach kids how to cross the road, so parents must now teach them about porn and consent - 20th June 2013
 * If it's a 'playful tiff', what does a serious one look like? - Charles Saatchi putting his hands around Nigella Lawson's throat looks like humiliating bullying. I hope she is well supported - 18th June 2013
 * I'm proof that anyone can sit an exam stoned and pass by spewing out facts - The education secretary's meddling is about conforming to a dimly imagined past, when analytical thinking was surplus to requirements - 12th June 2013
 * In the digital economy, we'll soon all be working for free – and I refuse - The digital economy operates as a kind of sophisticated X Factor: someone will make it, but most won't – and the real loser is society - 6th June 2013
 * I am the beneficiary of the house-price boom. My children are its victims - When the haves get worried not only about their futures but also those of their kids, the have-nots are really doomed - 23rd May 2013
 * Major Tim Peake stole my space age daydream - Britain's first official astronaut will beat me into space. But the light of long dead stars will continue to guide our fantasies - 21st May 2013
 * It's hard not to be angry when men won't discuss rape and abuse - When children are injected with heroin and sold for sex, where are the witnesses, the men who knew what was going on but said nothing? - 16th May 2013
 * A vote for Ukip is neither radical nor anti-politics - To be truly anti-politics would be to refuse to be governed by our inferiors - 9th May 2013
 * After Stuart Hall and Savile, the more victims' voices are heard, the better - Stuart Hall's admission of sexual offences has brought the abuse scandal that started with Jimmy Savile back into the headlines. The more victims' voices are heard, the better - 4th May 2013
 * We distrust so many of our institutions, so why do we take Twitter at its word? - Social media can spread information with unprecedented speed, but old-media skills such as sourcing, reporting and the checking of facts still matter - 25th April 2013
 * You can't be 'family friendly' if you're anti-child, Michael Gove - How can a longer school day be 'friendly' to families? It simply means families will see even less of each other - 20th April 2013
 * At least in Thatcher's day we knew what we were up against - In these post-Thatcher coalition times, there's no such hate figure for the opponents to rebel against - 11th April 2013
 * How can football be a beautiful game and justify Paolo Di Canio's Nazi salute? - The sport has failed to condemn the manager's fascist beliefs. In the same way that it has failed to tackle racism, sexism and homophobia in the game - 4th April 2013
 * 'Welfare' cuts: how the right gets the public on its side - How do you change the attitudes of those who support these cuts? The left must appeal to hearts as well as minds - 2nd April 2013
 * Food is now the ultimate class signifier - Poor people are being fobbed off with food stamps while the rest of us watch cookery shows and eat fancy ready-meals - 28th March 2013
 * Michael Gove's education policy is the real enemy of promise - The education secretary's marvellously paranoid outburst about teachers smacks of desperation - 25th March 2013
 * Osborne is dreaming if he thinks young people share his aspirations - The chancellor, with his fantasy of economic growth, is as deluded as the 14-year-old girl who can't sing but wants to be the next Rihanna - 22nd March 2013
 * It's tough to be a single parent and the government does nothing to help - This new round of punitive measures against single parents enrages me personally and politically - 14th March 2013
 * I applaud Curtis Woodhouse's Twitter response - By deciding to confront his Twitter troll, the British boxer did what we have all secretly wanted to do - 13th March 2013
 * International Women's Day? How about a day off from feminism instead? - IWD feels like a cosy exercise for a coterie of women, with too much new age babbling. I'd rather have a holiday - 8th March 2013
 * Sleep is not the new sex. It's more important than that - We're all tired, but what lies behind our national self-diagnosis of insomnia? Like most things, I blame this one on Thatcher - 7th March 2013
 * Abuse can only happen with the unspoken agreement that it will be covered up - Where is this rotten culture? Oh look, it's in Westminster, at the BBC and in the Catholic church - 27th February 2013
 * Extending IVF for older women obscures a deeper problem for society - Why do we make it so difficult for women to provide for children when they are most biologically able to have them? - 21st February 2013
 * The Woman's Hour list proves that there is nothing soft about real power - recent rundown of the nation's most powerful women is a painful reminder of the weak state we are in - 14th February 2013
 * Gay marriage: what the Tories are pushing is conformity not equality - I don't begrudge anyone the right to join this club. But why would they want to? - 7th February 2013
 * Michael Gove is destroying our school system - For the Conservative hardman in charge of our education policy, the three Rs are rigour, rightwing history and rote learning - 31st January 2013
 * Why are we bonkers about pets? - I had no strong feelings about my cat until she was gone. And my friend is in love with her dog - 24th January 2013
 * It saddens me that supporting freedom makes me an opponent of equality - We need both love and anger to be free, to be human. Take that away and who really wins? - 17th January 2013
 * I don't care if you were born a woman or became one - I don't care if you were born a woman or became one - 10th January 2013



Articles 2012:

 * Delhi gang-rape: in India, anger is overtaking fear - The death of 'Damini' revealed to India that its much-vaunted modernity is nothing without equality for women - 31st December 2012
 * 2012 has been the year of the food bank - As we relive our Olympic joys, the TV roundups seem to have forgotten about this - 20th December 2012
 * There's more to diversity than statistics. We need change at the top - The census captures Britain's diversity. Now how about changing a few key institutions to reflect the country's makeup? - 13th December 2012
 * Why is Britain's political class clinging to the delusion that growth will return? - Meanwhile, with the autumn statement the rich rejig forecasts to slash the income of the poor - 6th December 2012
 * In defence of the gap year - It's a sign of the times that any time out of an educational institution is now portrayed with a whiff of deviance - 3rd December 2012
 * The government's position on domestic violence is hypocritical - The coalition cannot condemn the rise in domestic violence and continue to cut services that provide victim support - 29th November 2012
 * The Church of England can no longer continue as an arm of the state - By voting against women bishops, it has shown itself to be a discriminatory organisation that seeks to be above the law - 22nd November 2012
 * By going on I'm A Celebrity, Nadine Dorries confirms how deluded she is - But I can't help feeling sorry for her - 15th November 2012
 * Away from the celebrity scandals and conspiracy theories, abusers are often the most ordinary of monsters - We do not need to concoct vast networks of paedophiles in the wake of the Jimmy Savile revelations. These crimes happen in our midst - 8th November 2012
 * house, it's those boxes full of daft things that remind me of home'' - The changes in how we live now can be measured in the crates of things we cart around when we move into a new house - 1st November 2012
 * The Savile scandal is about children, not overpaid TV executives - While we continue to play the blame game with the BBC top brass, the people who really matter are being ignored - 24th October 2012
 * Today programme debates are petty, dishonest and put people off politics - And if you stick up for yourself on one, you will be misrepresented and insulted - 18th October 2012
 * It's a tired old word, but patriarchy won't stop rearing its ugly head - And that's why we need women such as Julia Gillard - 11th October 2012
 * Liking young girls is not a preference, it's a perversion - Whatever some men may say about Jimmy Savile's behaviour in the 70s, it was wrong then and it's still wrong now - 4th October 2012
 * The politics that matters is happening on the streets of Europe - While we allow ourselves to be distracted by Andrew Mitchell's antics and conference season, in Spain and Greece citizens are fighting for control of their destiny - 27th September 2012
 * Mitt Romney divides society into the wealth-makers and the wealth-takers - he's much like the Tories - The UK government is implementing policies way closer to crazed Republican thinking than it would like spelled out - 20th September 2012
 * Boris Johnson is no laughing matter - The mayor of London did not deliver the Olympics but is sucking up the credit for them - 13th September 2012
 * Naomi Wolf's book Vagina: self-help marketed as feminism -Wolf is right that women should be having amazing sex, but the big question is why women are so sexually unhappy - 6th September 2012
 * School uniforms: turning our kids into soulless conformists - These days, every educationalist from Michael Gove down is a fan of the dreaded blazer/tie combo. Exactly how do they really think they're helping prepare kids for the 'real world'? - 30th August 2012
 * Pussy Riot are a reminder that revolution always begins in culture - Vladimir Putin is right to be frightened by Pussy Riot. They are essentially a concept and you can't stop a concept - 16th August 2012
 * London 2012: a beautiful, utopian, collective dream - The Olympics are a giant mirrorball, glinting back at us, reflecting all our differences – and giving us plenty to celebrate - 9th August 2012
 * Pussy Riot are a reminder that revolution always begins in culture - Vladimir Putin is right to be frightened by Pussy Riot. They are essentially a concept and you can't stop a concept - 1st August 2012
 * Brand Osborne is over - With news of a double-dip recession, the chancellor's refusal to change looks less like maturity and more like arrogance - 26th July 2012
 * On social media the new religion is sharing. Some of that sharing may not be very nice - But maybe a certain level of abuse is the price we pay for free speech - 19th July 2012
 * I have not been poor for a long time. When you have been, you never forget - The political and media classes that are debating 'poverty' have no idea of average earnings, never mind the cost of toilet rolls - 12th July 2012
 * Young people are rubbish... - That's how they are treated. Education, housing, reasonable employment. Every day, I see things I took for granted being stripped away from them - 28th June 2012
 * So the Olympics opening-ceremony soundtrack is radical? Yeah, right - Danny Boyle's supposedly dangerous playlist is nothing of the sort. It just proves we're a nation of stick-in-the-muds and conformists - 21st June 2012
 * Cameron didn't do anything terribly wrong, but letting go of our children should be a luxury that we can all afford - Bad things may happen but control freakery does not stop them happening. We have to let our kids take risks - 14th June 2012
 * Why do we take economists so seriously? - They have no foresight, no hindsight, and little humanity. Are they really the best people to lead us out of this crisis? - 7th June 2012
 * I have had enough of irony - Viewing everything from from high art to Eurovision through the filter of superiority and detachment is the opposite of - 31st May 2012pleasure
 * A few people might have made the leap 40 years ago, but social mobility no longer exists - Normal service has returned, and the only way out of it is if you can buy an education or have the right parents - 24th May 2012
 * The Second Sexism is just victim-envy - It is perfectly possible to understand that many men are suffering at the moment without blaming it on feminism - 17th May 2012
 * TV's hoarders show us the dark side of consumerism - The stories in TV programmes such as Britain's Biggest Hoarders fascinate us because we glimpse ourselves in them - 10th May 2012
 * If you live in a safe seat voting counts for nothing - That and the old DIY punk spirit was why I ran for election as an independent - 3rd May 2012
 * The hunt for Hunt is overshadowing the real issues – the recession and the rule of an over-confident elite - The Murdoch circus is entertaining enough, but it shouldn't blind us to what is really happening under this government - 26th April 2012
 * Breivik's ideology is all too familiar: that's our big problem - It's comforting to view the killer's horror of multiculturalism as deranged – but it is just an extreme example of what many feel - 19th April 2012
 * No beautiful Malian music will make Marie Trintignant's death go away - How could Bertrant Cantat, the singer who killed his partner, be allowed to feature on Amadou and Mariam's new album? - 7th April 2012
 * I have always compared myself to Madonna - She's the prism through which women and ageing is reflected, but refuses to play by the rules - 29th March 2012
 * We should be less afraid of intervening in chaotic families - Linking educational success to parenting makes able parents anxious. But their children are not the ones we should be worrying about - 22nd March 2012
 * Some meat is OK, as long as it's not the processed stuff that poor people eat - Whether we choose to eat animals or not, dietary advice that takes no account of class or budget is useless - 15th March 2012
 * 'Family values' – the same old story about rewarding the rich - Austerity is being felt by all kinds of families, but the tax system is now being used to show us which families matter and which don't - 8th March 2012
 * This level of healthcare privatisation is shocking - Compassion is crucial to good care, but the health bill will make it all the rarer in our diminished NHS - 1st March 2012
 * I have stacked shelves and hosed down urinals. Unlike the elite who are now telling lazy scroungers to buck up - Get a suit. Drone on. You could be work and pensions minister. You just need to adjust your attitude - 23rd February 2012
 * Instead of being disgusted by poverty, we are disgusted by poor people themselves - Empathy has crashed. No more cruel to be kind. We must simply be cruel - 16th February 2012
 * Despite its promises, this government can't make you happy. In times of austerity, you are on your own - The happiness agenda is just a way of making huge social problems seem personal - 9th February 2012
 * What does the TripAdvisor furore teach us about critics? - people reviewing on TripAdvisor are incredibly petty, although mostly truthful. But is this what we want from all criticism? - 2nd February 2012
 * The problem Tory 'feminists' face - Even a vibrant Conservative MP such as Louise Mensch can't avoid the fact that austerity is stripping us down to very old gender roles - 26th January 2012
 * This growing culture of outrage doesn't extend free speech – it limits it - Suddenly, anyone, anywhere, is offended by everything - 19th January 2012
 * Shoplifters say they steal because they need love. I need love too, but I don't wander around Tesco looking for it - Celebrity pilferers such as Antony Worrall Thompson are a source of hilarity, not outrage - 12th January 2012
 * I'm not alone in feeling English, not British. But that has nothing to do with racism or Ukip - Englishness is not the preserve of the right - 5th January 2012



Articles 2011:

 * The worst Christmas ever was when I took the kids to Bethlehem - Even the road signs for Sodom and Gomorrah didn't amuse them - 22nd December 2011
 * Why pretend we know everything? It's time to embrace uncertainty - It is certainty that we need to worry about, as extreme ideologies prosper in these uncertain times - 15th December 2011
 * Why women don't like appearing on TV - Many women – including me – are afraid of seeming unlovable and ignorant, even though men ooze such qualities in serious discussions - 8th December 2011
 * If the summer rioters really were all criminals, why don't they rampage more often – and why did they stop? - The failure to explain the riots is a wilful political act by the right - 1st November 2011
 * Poor Pippa Middleton. She's the object of our fantasies and then we go and punish her. But such is our cult of celebrity - The problem with the press fixation on Pippa Middleton is the same as the hand-wringing over the Leveson inquiry – the boundaries between public/private are blurring as we speak - 24th November 2011
 * Where was the mention of Margaret Thatcher's victims? - Meryl Streep, who plays Thatcher in The Iron Lady, invited me back for apple pie after a screening. But that didn't lessen my hatred for the former Tory leader - 17th November 2011
 * For News International as for the Stasi, the spying list just spiralled - The News of the World's hacking was on a scale that suggests the very act of surveillance corroded their sense of normality - 10th November 2011
 * Two hundred people in tents outside St Paul's have created a body more effective than the Church of England - Protesters are no longer prepared to form an orderly queue. That is why occupations are the new demos - 3rd November 2011
 * This coalition hasn't forgotten women. It's targeted them - We have a government that has socked it to women socially and financially, with worse to come, and yet is shocked we don't love it back - 17th September 2011
 * Shopping is not a hobby and it's not a patriotic duty, either - In troubled times, society needs more than retail therapy to solve its problems - 10th September 2011
 * It's the same old game. Get your rosaries off my ovaries, as we used to say - For all the liberal language, independent counselling is just an underhanded anti-abortion tactic - 3rd September 2011
 * riots: don't shut these kids out now'' - Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience - 13th August 2011
 * worse than colonic irrigation? The know-alls queueing up to laugh at it'' - Plenty of detox therapies may be nonsense, but we shouldn't automatically slam anyone who veers from the mainstream - 6th August 2011
 * end of spin? Don't be daft. We've forgotten how to do without it'' - Don't expect the phone-hacking scandal to clear up politicians' messy relationship with the media - 23rd July 2011
 * still like the redtops'' - Bawdy tittle-tattle has always been part of our press – let's not lose it - 16th July 2011
 * right want to set the clock back on abortion and gay rights. I say: hands off'' - Why is allowing people control over their own sexuality something that so many conservatives do not like? - 9th July 2011
 * world with too much freedom is better than one with not enough'' - We need to understand a generation that defines privacy differently. As LulzSec, Twitter and the rest show us, boundaries are changing - 2nd July 2011
 * suspect Blue Labour is just another great moving-right show'' - This new 'blue' ideology seems more conservative than radical, but at least Labour is acknowledging how bad things are for the party - 25th June 2011
 * our children are growing up too soon. But blame capitalism, not sex'' - What really makes kids grow up 'too soon' may have nothing to do with sex and everything to do with poverty - 11th June 2011
 * the word 'chav' is irrelevant to the working-class experience'' - Extending choice for the poorest will achieve more than defining who they are - 4th June 2011
 * a baking-and-Bunnygirls backlash: we're going back to the 50s'' - What we are seeing is just how far the Tories' liberalism goes - 28th May 2011
 * many women, I've been raped, but I still agree with Ken Clarke'' - Rape is not a party-political issue and I am disgusted that it has been treated that way this week - 21st May 2011
 * a slut, to my mind, was mostly fun – wearing and doing what you liked'' - To see a movement such as SlutWalk that brings together women who say "hands off our bodies, and our clothes" is fabulous - 14th May 2011
 * Middletons were the stars of the show, but it was still a royal stitch-up'' - The values of the Middletons' class – hard work, respect for property and insular family life – are actually at odds with those of the aristocracy - 8th May 2011
 * and women-only shortlists aren't popular, but they work'' - The push for equality stopped years ago. Women need to wake up to what has really happened - 30th April 2011
 * stuff does not make us happier. Doing stuff, especially for others, does'' - Despite all its encouraging homilies and self-help jargon, I don't want the new organization Action for Happiness. I want Action for Things to Be Basically OK - 16th April 2011
 * to us peasants, posh boys, for we know all about social mobility'' - Why am I being lectured about social mobility by people who were born at the top? - 9th April 2011
 * is everywhere – in sex, in class, in art and, yes readers, in my home'' - We shell out for antibacterial wipes and Cillit Bang while third world children die because of a lack of basic sanitation – that's the real dirt - 2nd April 2011
 * you earn less than the average wage, you're not middle class. It's all a scam'' - I don't know what class will be protesting today – squeezed, strugglers. But will they resist the fiction that class no long matters? - 26th March 2011
 * scale of youth unemployment scares me. It's like before …'' - When I was 14, stacking supermarket shelves earned me money to buy cider and black. But is work indisputably good? - 19th March 2011
 * we learn about Andrew, people will still cheer the happy couple'' - Whatever we learn about Andrew, people will still cheer the happy couple - 12th March 2011
 * Winston sawing a pig is fine – but give me a trained teacher any day'' - Jamie's Dream School is a vast insult to the teaching profession in that it assumes that subject expertise is enough to teach - 5th March 2011
 * the nicest thing a man can do for a woman? Shout at a bigot'' - I have inevitably been called a man-hater. The obvious response is, 'Men? Look at me, can't get enough of them!' - 26th February 2011
 * does nobody want to feel like a natural woman anymore?'' - We now have a new aesthetic of femininity where everything is meant to be as fake as possible - 19th February 2011
 * marriage is so damn good, why does it need propping up with tax breaks?'' - Iain Duncan Smith may be promoting National Marriage Week, but if the issue really was children, then support for single parents would be paramount - 12th February 2011
 * the Left is to rise again, it must lift the official silence on race and culture'' - The EDL are using a language of libertarianism, modernity and fake inclusiveness. They know what they are doing - 5th February 2011
 * are taking over the world, but funnily enough, I'm not laughing'' - Comedy is not the new rock'n'roll. It's the new Muzak. It's always there in the background - 29th January 2011
 * school I went on the dole, but crucially I got off it. Sadly our kids won't'' - Youth unemployment is on the rise, and everything that could help struggling young people back on track is subject to cuts. This could lead to the long-term exclusion of a generation - 22nd January 2011
 * time to get angry'' - All this polite and smiley feminism is getting us nowhere - 15th January 2011



Articles 2010:

 * rules! But it's about a lot more than just lobbing things at police'' - It's more often used now as a jibe against someone who throws something at a protest, but anarchism has a long, complex history, and it's never really gone away - 18th December 2010
 * think David Cameron's bad, Morrissey? Most of them don't even like music'' - The Smiths are half-right to disown the PM's fandom. But it's people with no musical convictions who are most suspect - 12th December 2010
 * aren't we supporting the students? Maybe we've been psychically kettled'' - We live in a society in which we are told there is no money and yet see it washing around the upper echelons - 4th December 2010
 * wedding? It's the bland leading the bland'' - Kate Middleton is the perfect people's princess for this dull, conservative land - 26th November 2010



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