Gaby Hinsliff



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Articles: 2016

 * Labour’s left waited decades for Corbyn. They won’t give up - The party is in crisis with 80% of MPs having no confidence in the leader. But his supporters know the opportunity to control its direction may not come again - 29th June
 * Fine words from our MPs, but the best tribute to Jo Cox will be actions - The spirit of the Labour MP has united rival politicans in parliament but as she knew, it’s not enough to wring your hands - 21st June
 * America’s gun laws and our rush to Brexit are symptoms of fearful nations - Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic make a mistake by pandering to fear instead of defusing it. It can lead to bad decisions - 16th June
 * From Chelsea to Sports Direct, the best weapon against bad bosses is shame - They’ve all crumbled when faced with a confrontation in public. Tougher laws with take years, but for now their squirming is the best way to bring about change - 10th June
 * Suddenly everyone’s running races – but winning isn’t really the point - Late converts to exercise take on fiendish physical challenges to prove their bodies can still take the pain - 27th May
 * Driverless cars: the slow, sad death of joyous motoring, one satnav at a time - You don’t have to be a petrolhead to dread the moment when driving for pleasure is no more - 20th May
 * Successful women: it’s not only what they do, but what they don’t - As girls we are taught to do our best and to please others. But the pursuit of perfection has a dark side - 13th May
 * Education needs a Lego moment – more fun and fewer pointless targets - The Let Our Kids be Kids protesters may be wrong about Sats, but we desperately need to bring the joy back into learning - 6th May
 * Antisemitism has rocked Labour’s self-belief - Party members assumed they were the good guys, incapable of prejudice. But now Ken Livingstone and Naz Shah have laid bare the left’s capacity for racism - 29th April
 * The Tories’ attempts to smear Sadiq Khan are repellent - David Cameron’s sly, insidious poisoning of the well during prime minister’s questions should have no part in decent politics - 22nd April
 * Who would think any good could come from an MP calling a woman ‘totty’? - Don’t be distracted by attempts to whip up a catfight, we all know that what happened to Isabel Hardman is unacceptable and that’s a sure sign of progress - 15th April
 * There is a vision of what a progressive Britain could be. It’s called Canada - A nation gripped by Trudeaumania manages to be tolerant and at ease with itself in difficult times, all with great aplomb - 1st April
 * Don’t mock the rock – Tracey Emin’s wedding is a message to single women - In marrying a stone, the always provocative artist is boldly asserting that life does not need a man at its centre in order to be worthwhile - 25th March
 * The world is becoming more violent, but we shouldn’t be afraid to explore it - The grim propaganda of bloodstained sun loungers is having an effect, but staying away isn’t the answer – for host economies or British holidaymakers - 18th March
 * Has George Osborne’s sugary bunny sweetened the pill of further cuts, and is this his big pitch for the leadership? - Osborne sounded like a man outlining his legacy - 17th March
 * The Sunday trading win was a blip – the weekend is slowly dying - Time off together is important to society, but there’s little our politicians can do to halt seven-day working - 11th March
 * It’s the £30bn cut you’ve never heard of. And women are bearing the brunt - Women in their 50s, who benefited little from feminism, are being told they must pay the price of equality with a rise in their retirement age - 26th February
 * The Apple standoff should make us rethink our surrender to the phone - The FBI’s fight to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters is a reminder of the risks of putting all our electronic eggs in one basket - 19th February
 * Though Bernard Hogan-Howe kept his job, he could yet lose his reputation - The scandal was not the pursuit of Operation Midland suspects. It was the muddled thinking that occurred on his watch - 12th February
 * Labour still has to work out how it can speak for England - Flying the flag may not come naturally, but the left must recognise how strongly patriotic many of its natural voters feel - 5th February
 * Parents in pyjamas: why the headteacher should stick to her guns - The school gate pyjama row shows how difficult it is for schools to set boundaries: but dressing properly sends a key message to children – and teachers - 29th January
 * How living offline became the new status symbol - What better way to show you’re too cool to be ‘on’ all the time; that you need space to think great thoughts? - 15th January
 * Let’s not shy away from asking hard questions about the Cologne attacks - Just because xenophobes are fanning the flames doesn’t mean we should censor the discussion about the assaults in German cities on New Year’s Eve - 8th January



Articles: 2015

 * The importance of things that didn’t happen in 2015 - Many predictions related to politics, terrorism and fashion went badly awry. And what transpired instead was often more interesting - 24th December
 * Thatcher’s old clothes being peddled as investments? She would love it - The £3m auction of her belongings might seem cold-blooded, but market forces were her obsession - 18th December
 * Forget Tyson Fury. True role models are closer to home - The boxer’s views are repugnant. But a ban from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist would give him an importance he does not deserve - 11th December
 * Angela Eagle showed Labour how to look united at PMQs - Covering for the absent Jeremy Corbyn against George Osborne, Eagle not only displayed a waspish humour but used her nous to hit the Tories where it hurts - 10th December
 * We betray the young and their futures by pricing them out of London - Social and geographical mobility are directly linked to house prices. It’s harder to reach the top when you can’t afford to live near head office - 13th November
 * The Women’s Equality party has a problem – no one hates it - To compare the WEP to Ukip is misleading. While there was a gap in the market for EU withdrawal, feminism is not a cause other parties ignore – they just get it wrong - 23rd October
 * The Sun says Tory tax credit cuts are wrong. Awkward - Clever speeches – which Osborne’s at the Tory conference was – don’t change the fact that this move by Murdoch is a wake-up call for just about everyone - 5th October
 * It’s George Osborne who will shape Tory prospects for 2020 - Power is leeching from David Cameron, and the colder, more ruthless chancellor is in the spotlight - 2nd October
 * The new right to buy is solving 1979’s problems at today’s expense - This Thatcherite policy revival fails to recognise that the main cause of the housing crisis is affordability - 25th September
 * #IStandWithAhmed shows why we mustn’t rush to increase counter-terror powers - The story of Texan schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed is a warning not to be suckered by those such as MI5 chief Andrew Parker who want greater state surveillance - 18th September
 * Jeremy Corbyn just made his first mistakes – but he’s not a sexist - The problem with Corbyn’s shadow cabinet is more a result of his team’s lack of experience than a case of systematic sexism - 15th September
 * Don’t hand Britain’s universities back to the elite - Despite the bad news on graduate jobs, if we feed the myth that student life is a waste of money we’ll simply turn back the clock - 21st August
 * Chilcot’s main revelation? These inquiries don’t work - It was only supposed to take a year. Six years on, it’s too late to learn lessons from the Iraq invasion - 14th August
 * In the Ashley Madison era, marriage needs a rethink - From starter marriages to ‘living apart together’, there’s no longer one ideal. Maybe the modern-day slogan should be: life is long, so muddle through - 24th July
 * How to get poor pupils into the best state schools? Smash the glass floor - Heads of selective schools, like Adams’ Grammar in Shropshire, know that professional parents often raise their kids higher than their talents deserve – so keeping other kids out - 2nd July
 * Working mothers don’t need to feel guilt – but it can be a useful tool - Research shows that having a job gives daughters a strong role model. But regardless, a life free of angst is neither possible nor desirable - 25th June
 * Boris Johnson’s rant shows MPs are stepping out of the doghouse, at last - Politicians’ scandals have allowed us to feel we can hurl bile at them endlessly. They shouldn’t have to take it – as Johnson demonstrated to a taxi driver - 18th June
 * Why sack ageing sexists? Send them to rehab instead - Tim Hunt isn’t too old to learn that his views of women are out of step with the modern world - 12th June
 * Charles Kennedy's death was a tragic waste of talent. Let compassion be his legacy - The former Liberal Democrat leader was a man of judgment and charm, but he had worrying frailties. If only he had been shown more kindness - 3rd June
 * Spoilt little emperors? Only children aren’t just normal, they are the future - Like mine, half of British families now have only one child. It’s about time ‘just the one’ attitudes caught up with the reality - 22nd May
 * Letter to the losing party leaders: don’t quit yet, you have vital work to do - Election winners seize the day. But with wisdom and patience, the defeated may own the future - 8th May
 * We floating voters may be unenthused but we’re definitely not unprincipled - The surprise in this election isn’t that there are so many undecideds – it’s that so many people have already made their minds up - 1st May
 * Power to the baristas. How this coffee shop revolution can benefit everyone - Pret A Manger’s empowerment of its low-paid staff may have a cynical side, but it should still serve as an example to other industries - 23rd April
 * We lumber grandparents with the care of our children – but it has a price - A generation of older women are having to give up their own jobs so that their daughters can pursue careers. Labour’s pledge will help them - 17th April
 * Clarkson is a dinosaur – so why do I feel sad about his Top Gear extinction? - For all Clarkson’s flaws, his show captured the haplessness of middle-aged men adrift in a changing universe - 27th March
 * Britain’s obsession with ownership has turned housing into a pyramid scheme - George Osborne’s budget offered a ‘lifeline’ for first-time buyers. But in the long term, the market is unsustainable - 20th March
 * Nigel Farage, take note: if bosses could discriminate they’d probably prefer Polish workers - The Ukip leader should be grateful for equality laws. They give British workers a chance of getting British jobs - 13th March
 * Want to make yourself look less nasty? Avoid picking fights with the church - Iain Duncan Smith should have turned the other cheek when chided by bishops over welfare changes - 20th February
 * These child abuse failures show that Rotherham is probably not alone - It wasn’t political correctness or even politics that let child abuse go undetected: just simple mediocre management - 6th February
 * Consent is not enough: if you want a sexual partner, look for enthusiasm - The furore over rape prosecution guidance from the CPS shows we need a new understanding of sexual relationships - 30th January
 * The Sun's Page 3 cynicism isn't just about lust. It's about resentment and power - Unprincipled manoeuvring by the tabloid reflects the backlash against women who demand equality - 23rd January
 * A teacher has sex with a 16-year-old girl, and he is a victim? Please - A judge's sympathy for a 44-year-old deputy head is not just misplaced, it's deeply wearisome and depressing - 16th January
 * The resentment between London and the rest of Britain is turning into a poisonous political debate - This week's phoney mansion-tax row shows that toxic myths about haves and have-nots are increasingly taking hold - 9th January



Articles: 2014

 * Who knows what the new year holds? Certainly none of us - Experts have their comforting predictions, but nobody, nowhere, is forewarned and forearmed about what's coming - 27th December
 * The Sony leak unearthed juicy gossip, but the blackmailers must not win - This isn't about a half-baked Seth Rogen comedy. It's about the folly of letting bullies have their way - 19th December
 * Calm down, Liam Fox. There is no politically correct war on Christmas - Don’t believe those who say they have to apologise for their faith. Christianity in Britain is doing fine - 12th December
 * We are working harder than ever and it’s killing us. We need more chill time - Long hours make us ill and ineffective. With greater space and flexibility, people could be more creative - 28th November
 * Somehow drivers must learn to resist the smartphone itch - To save lives we must either realise the lunacy of Facebooking in the fast lane – or else be forcibly disconnected - 7th November
 * In praise of … Miriam González Durántez - She is so much more than just Nick Clegg’s wife - 18th October
 * Long after this Ebola panic, Africa will still be paying the price - From hospitals to schools, the Ebola crisis has put years of progress across the continent at risk. If you want to fear something, fear that - 10th October
 * For MPs there's one thing worse than coalition: opposition - The Conservatives and Labour agree on one thing – they hate Lib Dems. But they are likely to need them - 3rd October
 * The niqab is no reason to deny a girl an education - A school in Camden has barred a pupil for wearing a veil. This is not how a liberal education should work - 26th September
 * After the referendum, the reckoning: why Cameron should fear for his future - The mishandled no campaign in Scotland has left many questioning if Cameron can win the crunch battles ahead - 19th September
 * Fat-shaming: how the slim and sanctimonious help to cause our obesity crisis - Where weight is a risk to health it should be tackled, but it shouldn't become a free-for-all for finger-wagging skinnies - 12th September
 * Marriage has moved on and now the children come first - They may not be Mr and Mrs Smith but, by delaying wedlock, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are part of a new norm - 5th September
 * A pink toy, a faded photo, bring the victim closer - Notebook - 25th July
 * Silly season now means treating us all as idiots - Notebook - 18th July
 * A big hand for parents who let their child go free - Notebook - 11th July
 * We’re afraid you’re boring – relatively speaking - Notebook - 4th July
 * The taupe dividing line in the battle of the sexes - Notebook - 27th June
 * Don't like politicians? Get a load of the kamikaze crew - So long as politics is held in contempt it will attract ideologues like Dominic Cummings – and their extreme sense of mission - The Guardian, 17th June
 * There’s a way out from the dark forest of childlessness - Notebook - The Times, 6th June
 * Morals in the City – don’t put your money on it - Notebook - The Times, 30th May
 * Ed shouldn’t pretend to be poorer than he is - Neither does he need to know the cost of a pint of milk - The Times, 23rd May
 * If you’re old or a loser, please leave a message - Notebook - The Times, 15th May
 * Kaiser Bill and Tony B both look a picture - Notebook - The Times, 9th May
 * The post-Paxman style will still need that element of surprise - Political interviews are getting harder. But sometimes the Fern Britton approach is more effective than Paxman's battering ram - The Guardian, 3rd May
 * They need a stubborn so-and-so for this seat - Notebook - The Times, 1st May
 * Free the rich: make them enjoy their money - Notebook - The Times, 18th April
 * This police record was almost criminal - Notebook - The Times, 11th April
 * Play safe to win the votes of Maidstone Mums - The women who’ve kept their families afloat don’t believe politicians with big, bold ideas - 9th April
 * The children who are not neglected quite enough - Notebook - The Times, 4th April
 * Mainstream politics lost out along with Clegg - Being statesmanlike did the Deputy PM a fat lot of good - The Times, 28th March
 * The Tories are on the wrong scent over foxes - Country people I know are far more concerned about house-building - The Times, 21st March
 * George Osborne’s great stealth giveaway - Filling up hastily this morning, on a garage forecourt cold and claggy with fog, I put barely half a tank in the car — and realised that a small ritual in motoring life has virtually disappeared - The Times, 14th March
 * They’ve all got opinions on the trial of the year - Notebook - The Times, 7th March
 * I hate Page 3 but applaud the Sun's breast cancer campaign - The images may be divisive, but this initiative will probably save lives. It's boobs, yes, but not as we know them - The Guardian, 5th March
 * As pensions dwindle, inheritance looms large - Many middle-class Britons no longer trust hard work alone to secure the lifestyles they’ve come to expect - The Times, 1st March
 * A diamond ring that represents a generation - Notebook - The Times, 21st February
 * With even Ukip promoting women, Cameron's gender gap could be lethal - Cameron is in trouble with his old boys' cabinet. But parliament is losing its attraction for both men and women - The Guardian, 16th February
 * No sneering. Talking for other people is allowed - Jack Monroe won’t be forgetting her poverty overnight - The Times, 14th February
 * Why only the lucky can 'lean in' - Character education can teach the soft skills that lead to a better life. But if you're mired in poverty or held back by prejudice, it's not enough - The Guardian, 13th February
 * Can anyone hear me out there? I’m no criminal - Notebook - The Times, 7th February
 * Until Balls says he was wrong, he’s a liability - Ed Miliband won’t sack him – but Labour needs to find another way to show the voters it is economically credible - The Times, 27th January
 * Girls, fine. But who are role models for boys? - Take Lily Allen and plenty more, but David Beckham barely matches up - The Times, 24th January
 * Yes, they whine, but a teacher’s life is not easy - The Times, 17th January
 * My crowded village has fewer people than in 1840 - Saying a country is ‘too full’ is not really about numbers - The Times, 10th January 2014
 * A drunk woman's tweets to Caroline Criado-Perez show boredom at its worst - Boredom is a driving force in everything from prison riots and problem gambling to nuisance caused by kids in school holidays - The Guardian, 9th January 2014
 * Furious rail commuters are switching their targets - Anger is moving from companies to politicians - The Times, 3rd January 2014



Articles: 2013

 * 2014: the year we don’t need to be right - The Times, 26th December 2013
 * One whiff of turps reminds me of my father - Dads are role models for girls as well as boys - 20th December 2013
 * The cloud with a silver lining – but only for men - Recessions discriminate against women - 13th December 2013
 * Cheaper gas bills are cold comfort for rural folk - Notebook - 6th December 2013
 * Drops in the deep, dark ocean of loneliness - Ways to stop the effects of isolation; lazy accusations; tigers for tea - 29th November
 * Would we have cared if gin was the Rev’s poison? - Notebook - 22nd November 2013
 * Charles has never seemed more complete - Happily married, the heir to the throne has intellectual freedom to support the causes that matter to him - 16th November 2013
 * Mystique of the power couple still intrigues - Notebook - 15th November 2013
 * Off the peg, get your old-style Britain here - M&S is the answer to some of our most pressing questions - 8th November 2013
 * Mentally ill people aren’t Hallowe’en bogeymen - How can supermarkets stock these bizarre costumes? - 1st November 2013
 * Ahem. I’d just like to congratulate my bank - Notebook - 25th October 2013
 * Jeremy Hunt misses the real NHS challenge - Crackdowns on health tourism won’t prevent a crisis on A&E wards this winter - 23rd October 2013
 * Not all of our future is written in our genes - Notebook - 18th October 2013
 * Why Eric Pickles is the god of small things - Notebook - 11th October 2013
 * It's not sexy, but frailty in old age is a feminist issue too - We talk about Miley Cyrus, Botox and dating, but we should be far angrier about the crisis over long-term care of the elderly - 10th October 2013
 * Here’s the reason why the PM may lack vision - Notebook - 4th October 2013
 * Did McBride ensure that Ed became leader? - 27th September 2013
 * While you’re at it, got any other freebies? - Giving away free school lunches must mean austerity’s over - 20th September 2013
 * Newsnight shouldn’t be Snoozenight for politics - Notebook - 13th September 2013
 * Forget the BBC, unions, civil servants. The cause of Tory fury is other Tories - Once Cameron charmed his critics, but now his government lashes out – enraged by its failure to control its own party - 9th September 2013
 * Today’s baby boom is the crime wave of tomorrow - Notebook - 6th September 2013
 * Fair is only fair when we are not losing out - Notebook: Few concepts in public life are more slippery - 16th August
 * Tell the truth: the NHS will soon be bust - There’s no end to medical advances and their astronomical costs. The trouble is, we can’t possibly afford them - 14th August 2013
 * Enough dithering: now it's time Labour jumped into action - Ed Miliband's priority must be to grab the initiative on issues that his party virtually owned a couple of years ago - 11th August 2013
 * Forget alien horror: now Titanic hits the fatberg - Notebook: what a metaphor for our lard-rich, time-poor modern lifestyles - 9th August 2013
 * Why we can’t see the risks of monkey business - Notebook: A lesson from Longleat for Anthony Weiner - 2nd August 2013
 * The Beano shouldn’t try to be all grown-up - Notebook: I shouldn’t have to explain the jokes to my six-year-old - 26th July 2013
 * No sneering at Baby Cambridge parties, please - US-style proms and baby showers may seem vulgar, but we are showing off our relief at avoiding personal disaster - 22nd July 2013
 * If children are ranked, will their parents cope? - Notebook: There will be tears if it turns out little Emily isn’t a genius - 19th July 2013
 * Ghosts of the bad old days sit on the benches - Notebook: Hague should have known better - 12th July 2013
 * Interested in politics? We must have been barmy - Notebook: my non-pink mobile phone cover; my non-hallucinatory experiment - 5th July 2013
 * Build, build, build! Or rather, how dare you? - Notebook: a battle with my inner Nimby - 28th June
 * Sorry, but it seems my hens are just dumb clucks - Notebook: Clever chickens? Not in my henhouse - 21st June 2013
 * Good on the ‘wimp’ for thinking of the family - Notebook: Tom Harris’s resignation; Viv Groskop’s ambition; entranced by radio - 14th June
 * We’ve made it so easy for the data snoopers - The Prism furore is not just about civil liberties. Think how willingly we trade personal information for convenience - 10th June 2013
 * Give me the politics of hope, not of maths - All those stats kill ideas and argument - 7th June 2013
 * Lads’ mags are the wrong target for feminists - Top-shelf magazines no longer surf the wave of oversexed popular culture but drown in it - 29th May 2013
 * George Osborne may not be dead in the water after all. What will Labour do then? - The IMF may today deliver good(ish) news on the economy. Even a fake recovery would be bad news for the two Eds - 22nd May 2013
 * Parents, not policy, help children to climb the social ladder - We must find the missing piece of the social jigsaw - 18th May 2013
 * It’s hard to tell jihad from immature rage - The Boston bombers may have been driven more by a warped desire for notoriety than by real fanaticism - 22nd April 2013
 * George Osborne's sugar pills won't heal the pain, but Julia Gillard's may - The placebo effect has its place beyond medicine – as long as those who soothe us do so with our best interests at heart - 22nd March 2013
 * Cameron may last even as he leads his MPs to their doom - Tory backbenchers fear a repeat of 1997 at the next election. But that doesn't mean any of them have the courage to act on it - 11th March 2013
 * Scrap ‘marital coercion’, this ridiculous relic - Vicky Pryce was a free agent and the author of her own downfall, not a smart-suited victim - 8th March 2013
 * What Nick Clegg doesn't know can still get him into trouble - The Lib Dems' handling of harassment claims has so far been shameful. Their inquiries had best follow their brief – and dig - 25th February 2013
 * Let’s stop pretending that IVF is a luxury - The failure to conceive is not about career women who left it too late. It’s about money and the ache for a baby - 21st February 2013
 * The key to the Eastleigh byelection is forget Chris Huhne and think of Crewe - Don't expect a verdict on political trust or Cameron as a leader. Eastleigh reminds me of a very different byelection in 2008 - 10th February 2013
 * David Cameron may live to regret his backing for George Osborne - By declaring his support until 2015, the PM has narrowed his options and risks energising his enemies within the party - 4th February 2013
 * What ties David Cameron's EU policy to his stirring words on Algeria? Impatience - Pick a fight in Brussels, send in a taskforce, shake it all up – on foreign policy Cameron's like a bull in a china shop - 21st January 2013
 * Britain's new working-class pride could be a bonus for Labour - That 60% of Britons claim to be proletarian reflects a fear that the Tories have broken a promise on rewarding hard work - 14th January 2013
 * The logic of David Cameron's cry for optimism is: vote Labour - It's tempting to side with conservative Eeyores. But from peace in Ulster to US healthcare, the case for progressive politics is clear - 4th January 2013



Articles: 2012

 * This lily-livered marriage bill must make room for all of us - Gay people are still being denied marriage, while straight people are deserting it in droves. The institution itself is a mess - 12th December 2012
 * The elastic middle has to be defined, once and for all - Politicians should be clear about who is really struggling. It's not those who have been forced to kick their Waitrose habits - 18th September 2012
 * Could the Hillsborough lies ever happen again? - The most corrosive effect of the conviction that we don't get the truth out of those in power is that it breeds a refusal to listen - 11th September 2012
 * The private picture isn’t always most revealing - It’s a myth that personal stories tell us the ‘truth’ about public figures. Who cares that Ed Balls is good with cakes? - 25th August 2012
 * Fixing Britain's work ethic is not the answer to this economic mess - It suits the Tory austerity narrative to blame 'idle' Britons for the recession rather than flaws in the modern labour market - 20th August 2012
 * The lessons of Louise Mensch's departure? There are none - The demands of the MP's job and her transatlantic marriage bear almost no relation to those of the average working mother - 7th August 2012
 * Ed Miliband, you stoke this anti-Europe fire at your peril - A referendum on EU membership will tempt the Labour leader. But a yes campaign would be short of arguments - 21st May 2012
 * Can Jon Cruddas start the right arguments to get Labour elected? - As Labour's new policy supremo, leftwinger Cruddas must formulate a coherent programme for the squeezed middle - 16th May 2012
 * Leveson asks why, not just how - This new phase of the inquiry may help to explain why things went so wrong - and particularly why now - 22nd April 2012
 * A conservatory tax is only the start of the conversation - Conserving water and fuel isn't a vote-winner, but politicians can't afford to be coy about our reckless guzzling - 10th April 2012
 * Labour can't simply jeer at the Conservatives' weaknesses - Bradford West showed too many people think too little changed under Labour. David Cameron isn't the only one out of touch - 1st April 2012
 * Shame works on bankers, MPs and tabloids, however immune they seem - Closing tax loopholes is more than token banker-bashing. Small gestures can shake up cosy elites - 28th February 2012
 * David Cameron may aim for the stars, but he's failing to shine - The PM should take a leaf out of Alex Salmond's book. Unlike the Scottish leader, it's hard to see quite where he's heading - 12th February 2012
 * Chris Huhne's resignation: the destructive result of love turned sour - Huhne made himself vulnerable to his enemies the minute he left his wife for his mistress. It's a curiously undignified way to go - 3rd February 2012
 * Tory feminists: the true blue sisterhood - Who says feminists can only be leftwing? An influential group of Conservative women MPs are increasingly vocal about the need to tackle gender equality. With radical views on parenting and work, can free-market feminism leave its mark? - 8th January 2012



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