Grace Dent



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Controversy/Criticism: Guardian journalist Grace Dent can’t take criticism - Graduate trainee at a PR agency is sacked after he criticises Grace Dent, then a Guardian journalist, on Twitter - The Telegraph, 29th June 2012

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Articles: 2014

 * 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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 * Bomb threats made on Twitter to female journalists. Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman and Independent writer Grace Dent among women threatened. The Guardian, 31st July 2013



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