Caitlin Moran



Profile:
Full name: Caitlin Moran

Area of interest: Current affairs and popular culture

Journals: The Times

Email: [mailto:caitlin.moran@thetimes.co.uk caitlin.moran@thetimes.co.uk]

Website: TimesOnline / Caitlin Moran

Blog: Alpha Mummy

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Biography:
Education: Home-educated - "Caitlin Moran left school at 11. At 12, she won the Dillons essay competition. At 15, she won the Observer's Young Reporter award. At 15, she had her first novel published. At 17, she was writing for the Observer and the Guardian. At 18, she got her own column in the Times", see: Interview: Atrocious mess, precocious mind: Meet Caitlin Moran, newspaper columnist, television presenter, novelist, screenwriter, pop music pundit, Hunter Davies, The Independent, 17th May 1994

Career: Journalistic career began with music paper, Melody Maker; Written for The Times since 1992; also writes for The Sunday Times Magazine; Elle magazine; Word magazine; Period Living; Radio Times; Times Educational Supplement; Caitlin is also on the Alpha Mummy team, The Times' blog for 'mums who work, used to work, or want to go back to work one day' Viewpoints/Insight:

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Books: The Chronicles of Narmo, 1992 - autobiographical novel, written at the age of 16, about being brought up in a family of eight children who were home-educated (ISBN 0552527246)

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TV/Radio: Hosted Channel 4's music show Naked City, 1992/93 - the show ran for two series and was notable for breaking many new bands and introducing Johnny Vaughan

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Other: Married to The Times' rock critic Peter Paphides



The Times:
Column remit: Current affairs and popular culture

Section: Times 2 / Features

Role: Columnist

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Email: [mailto:caitlin.moran@thetimes.co.uk caitlin.moran@thetimes.co.uk]

Website: TimesOnline / Caitlin Moran

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Day published: Monday

Regularity: varies

Column format: Three topics

Average length: 1100 words



Articles:

 * equality, reality TV'' - Hurray, the ‘stars’ are revolting - 9th February 2010
 * on the skirting board? Well, I’m game'' - If adults don’t play silly games once in a while they go all wrong - 25th January 2010
 * ‘ROFL’ for lulz? Hey, man! It’s just the way I roll'' - Which new words entered my life during 2009, and which new cliches have I come lazily to depend on? - 22nd January 2010
 * Jonathan Ross go leaves the Beeb weak and dull'' - That a chaotic popinjay became a lightning rod for the Corporation was unfortunate for them — and for him - 11th January 2010
 * beautiful people, let's have wonky Brits'' - I don’t want to sound racist about attractive people, but they all look the same to me. My gaze slides off their faces - 30th November 2009
 * was the worst drug problem I ever had'' - "I’ve just found a wrap on the floor in the toilets. I think it’s heroin. You can have it if you want" - 2nd November 2009
 * I implore you, don’t judge a man by his biscuit'' - Gordon Brown’s Biscuit Lynching was a shameful moment in our political discourse - 26th October 2009
 * cruel world, I’m moving to the internet'' - In cyberspace you can erase people, in the real world you’d have to murder them - 19th October 2009
 * I love paying tax'' - When I write a huge cheque, I go Woo!, how grown-up - 12th October
 * pass me the salt, I’m on a bacon roll'' - Bacon is the Dark Matter that holds together the Universe. We are stardust. We are bacon - 5th October 2009
 * and other deadly British institutions'' - Americans won’t be surprised to learn that a Custard Cream is a health hazard. They already worry we’ll trip on our bustles - 14th September 2009
 * to make children climb a mountain'' - A wise inference of Disney Stores at summits and High School Musical figurine sales at bases should ensure mobility - 7th September 2009
 * gives a woman gigantic balls'' - A male midwife has said that women should experience more pain in labour. It’s one way to put things into perspective - 20th July 2009
 * Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made'' - Ghostbusters is 25 years old and, to celebrate, the whole world should just admit that it's better than Star Wars - 29th June 2009
 * I deserted you and I still carry the shame'' - Glastonbury is like your favourite football team: you stand by it. But I have to admit that I am a fair-weather supporter - 27th June 2009
 * Wallace or Danny DeVito: what's your cosmonaut of choice?'' - Who would really want to run the risk of jetting off to Mars while slowly turning into Greg Wallace from Masterchef? - 22nd June 2009
 * up, world, I admit it — I am a feminist'' - I’m going to purposely start using the word for its shock value - 8th June 2009
 * Obama is ‘Indofromerican’ and my children are ‘Week’ or ‘Cyrish’'' - Why we need a new handle on terms for the racially mixed - 1st June 2009
 * build a sex theme park and call it Legoverland'' - If you can theme a ride around some giant teacups, then inventing a sex ride would be a doodle - 25th May 2009
 * have Miss Beautiful Morals, so how about Miss In Utero?'' - We could have a round called Most Clearly Presented Unambiguous Genitals at 18-Week Scan - 18th May 2009
 * Gordon Brown to blame for cooking up the phrase ‘barbecue summer’?'' - It’s everywhere! Everyone is telling us a ‘barbecue summer’ is on the way. But I smell a rat (hopefully not marinated) - 11th May 2009
 * Aniston, the Hoff, Brad and Angelina... in Louisiana?'' - Film and TV crews are fleeing Los Angeles and relocating elsewhere in the US. So, no more California dreaming... - 4th May 2009
 * secret of slimming was an old Cortina, space hoppers and Smash'' - In the 1970s you'd be on a picket line or sitting for hours on top of the twin-tub - 27th April 2009
 * was a traumatised half-wolf, and he ruined my teenage years'' - Teenage girls might just as well have a hairy, barking baby for all the good a dog will do them - 20th April 2009
 * fish called Colin'' - Deep in our hearts we all hate fish - 13th April 2009
 * Ben: where we are going wrong with Brand Britain'' - Leave my bloody iconic Second World War-winning clocktower alone, you sewer! - 30th March 2009
 * Jade Goody: From monster to media phenomenon - She was the gobby girl next door who was vilified then vindicated by the media that made her. We examine her life and fame - 23rd March 2009
 * I was a skunk addict, at least I think I was - All that talk about the Myersons and drugs made me remember that I was a stoner. But my memory is not what it used to be - 23rd March 2009
 * Cartoon men get me feeling hot, hot, hot - Mr Incredible has a voice as deep and haaaawt as the fires of Hell - 9th March 2009
 * clubs in the Noughties? Get off the stage, girls'' - Are we saying that strip clubs are wonderful charities that allow women to get degrees? - 2nd March 2009
 * mackerel! It's not the oily fish that makes those Mediterraneans live for ever'' - They don't have to try to reconcile the two thoughts, "I am a desirable and sexual woman" and "I am putting on quilted long johns" - 23rd February 2009
 * don't fail me now: how I got past the nausea and into my stride'' - I now find myself running ten miles a week, in all weathers. I enjoy running. Me! - 16th February 2009
 * there's a smile on his face, it's there to fool the public. But why did Hitler bother?'' - It doesn't matter how ‘caring' the Führer tries to look in a photo; he will always look evil - 9th February 2009
 * best thing about big families? There's always someone to moan about'' - Weight problems, relationship problems, identity confusion - they can all be blamed on multisiblings - 2nd February 2009
 * America finally gets the chance to prove it can throw a par-tay'' - There's a dim part of our minds that craves to hear the new President say “Get on down. And that's an order.” - 19th January 2009
 * took 1 min 47 seconds for my memory to become host to a horror that will never go'' - It is the details in watching someone die that are the most awful and rattle you the most - 12th January 2009
 * limitless knowledge means unlimited fun'' - A jump into its infinite detail proves to be deeply revelatory about the nature of humanity - 22nd December 2008
 * be a scene if I see one of these under the tree'' - Chocolates? Stilton? Perfume? Vouchers? As a gift? Are you insane? - 15th December 2008
 * as anything - how I lost my rock'n'roll cool'' - I was 31 when I finally unclenched my Buttocks of Cool enough to do some Freddie Mercury-style audience participation - 8th December 2008
 * problem with ageing is ... actually, there isn't one'' - So many presumptions around ageing are untrue. The main, risible, postulation is that it is always bad - 1st December 2008
 * with sharks: my pool of memories'' - Had I seen such a pool in 1986, I'd have presumed we were in Playboy Mansion - 24th November 2008
 * swots, women: we all deserve a sporting chance'' - We need, worldwide, more Olympics, encompassing the panoply of human specialisations and brilliances - 17th November 2008
 * scientists have spoken: gossip is good'' - 10th November 2008
 * can't make a silk purse out of a peasant's bag'' - The handbag I would like most is a big, hollowed-out potato with handles; in times of crisis I could bake and eat it - 27th October 2008
 * School Musical. Resistance is futile'' - The ubiquitous blockbuster is nothing to be afraid of. And, mums, it has a topless locker scene - 9th October 2008
 * the crunch bites, acacia-flower beignets won't help'' - The middle classes shouldn't try to teach the poor how to do poverty properly - 29th September 2008
 * who make an effort to look hot deserve a medal'' - Straight boys in pink nu-rave hoodies. OAPs in scarlet ballet pumps. Waitresses with 1940s up-dos. These are people who want to be looked at - 22nd September 2008
 * you rather spend 38p on Doctor Who or a stamp?'' - The BBC is a fabulous mad aunt, who lives in a dilapidated cottage in the middle of the metropolis surrounded by books, bassoons and children - 15th September 2008
 * (thin, reedy) cheers for British weediness'' - When I look at our uniformly mild, paunchy, metrosexual British politicians, it makes me swell with pride - 8th September 2008
 * me a large gin; my staycation has started'' - Who needs picnics in Puglia when you can spend your summer holiday practising 1940s updos and finishing The Wasteland - 11th August 2008

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