Stuart Jeffries



Profile:
Full name: Stuart Jeffries

Area of interest: Culture, British society and politics

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:stuart.jeffries@guardian.co.uk stuart.jeffries@guardian.co.uk]

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Website: Guardian.co / Stuart Jeffries

Blog: Comments is free...; the blog art & architecture

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Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/stuartljeffries



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Education: Exeter College, Oxford

Career: Birmingham Post and Mail: cub reporter; Hampstead and Highgate Express: various duties; 1987/1990; The Guardian: subeditor, TV critic, Friday Review editor, Paris correspondent, feature writer and columnist, 1990-current. See: Comment is free profile

Current position/role: feature writer and columnist


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Viewpoints/Insight: The Guardian: [http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/news/story/0,,2014653,00.html Has university really changed? Oxford, 1981-84] 16th February 2007

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 * Mrs Slocombe's pussy: growing up in front of the telly OCLC 45593087, 2001

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Remit/Info: Culture, British society and politics

Section: various

Role: features and comment writer

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Email: [mailto:stuart.jeffries@guardian.co.uk stuart.jeffries@guardian.co.uk]

Personal website:

Website: Guardian.co / Stuart Jeffries

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Day published: previously Friday, Monday

Regularity: No regular column since November 2006

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Articles:

 * Sex, violence, class, power, politics – the school rugby row has it all - The idea of a ban on tackling in school rugby is easy enough to defend or decry – but my experiences of the scrum on a grammar school playing field in 1970s Birmingham tells me this can be a truly formative game - 5th March 2016
 * Money has corrupted us. We no longer understand what it's worth - It's time we made money do what we want, rather than letting it diminish and degrade us - 2nd January 2014
 * St Jude's may be 'just a storm', but why not go wild? - Hold on to your hats, here come the complaints of overreaction. But we're normally so sheltered, we're bound to get a bit excited - 28th October 2013
 * Cometh the storm – are the gods smiting us for worshipping royalty? - The storms could be a sign that we must atone for our hubris – or just a poetic intimation of what it is to give birth - 24th July 2013
 * David Beckham: how this crock of a footballer can still woo the French - It doesn't matter he's too old to play for Paris Saint-Germain – Becks can still score in France as an honorary Frenchman - 1st February 2013
 * Man flu: an enigma wrapped in a damp towel - I'm not sure that research on the preoptic nucleus will settle things – it's a matter for the psychology of illness - 26th January 2013
 * A quiet word about silence at breakfast - Seb Emina is wrong – sitting down to eat can and should inspire conversation. Words, not silence, rule at the breakfast table - 8th january 2013
 * Why Marxism is on the rise again - Capitalism is in crisis across the globe – but what on earth is the alternative? Well, what about the musings of a certain 19th-century German philosopher? Yes, Karl Marx is going mainstream – and goodness knows where it will end - 4th July 2012
 * Water relief. The hosepipe ban is switched off, just when we need it least - My hosepipe will still rest easy, after this plague of anti-jubilee rain. But what will Rod Stewart and other ban flouters do now? - 14th June 2012
 * M&S diamond jubilee knickers? There's worse memorabilia - Wash your Royal Wedding pizza down with some Jubilade and if it's all too much here's a diamond jubilee sick bag - 17th May 2012


 * Brush up your Hegel, Sarko - Monsieur Président's burka outburst suggests he can't tell his abstract and concrete freedoms apart - 24th June, 2009


 * your own head be it'' - Should cyclists wear helmets? - 11th August 2008
 * No country for old men - The number of men over 60 living alone in Britain has topped one million for the first time - and this Father's Day, many will have no contact at all with their families. But how did older men come to be so neglected? And why do women fare much better in retirement? - 11th June 2008
 * Unlikely in love - couples who beat the odds - Some marriages just work. How? It's none of our business - 5th June 2008
 * What lies beneath - Austria has been called 'rotten', 'freakish' and even 'poisonous' following Josef Fritzl's atrocities. Is it fair to condemn the entire nation? No, it's hypocrisy - 7th May 2008
 * Flying penguins, Sarkozy's new look and other tall tales - 2nd April 2008
 * International surveys: there'll be another one along shortly - 26th March 2008
 * A natural phenomenon - Tonight, after 54 fabulous years of globetrotting for wildlife, David Attenborough bows out. What made him so great? And who can take his place? - 3rd March 2008
 * Global warming plants the seeds of change for gardeners - 22nd January 2008
 * Can politicians learn anything from history? - 6th December 2007
 * The sheer hell of bossy Britain - We live in bossy Britain where signs and loudspeakers order us around all day long. It's time to revolt against this patronising dictatorship - 19th June 2007
 * Celebrity Big Brother - Beauty and the beastliness: a tale of declining British values - 19th January 2007
 * Twelve angry celebs - Stuart Jeffries on a new frontier for reality TV. A young woman who has been out drinking with footballers alleges rape - and the courtroom is packed with celebrities - 13th January 2007



Articles: 2006

 * Who's the daddy? - Last year sperm donors lost their right to anonymity - now 58% believe this was wrong - 18th November 2006
 * Suspect nation - The national DNA database is a detective's dream... But does it also infringe our civil liberties? - 28th October 2006
 * Stuart Jeffries has been deleted. From now on you will be listening to - and taking orders from - Stuart 2.0 - 13th October 2006
 * You only live twice - After the success of MySpace, Bebo and YouTube... Second Life is fast becoming the hottest thing on the web - 7th October 2006
 * The Hungarian prime minister has been remarkably honest this week. What if he wrote Blair's farewell speech? - 22nd September 2006
 * It's all very well George Osborne banging on about the evils of air travel. But did he really have to fly halfway round the world to do it? - 1st September 2006
 * Mellow fellow - He has fallen in love, dropped the vernacular, and admires David Cameron. Has Irvine Welsh, scourge of the English, and the English language, gone soft? Interview by Stuart Jeffries - 12th August 2006
 * Saturday in the news - Edinburgh is upon us, and the Fringe programme, as usual, is full of eccentric oddities. Can you spot which of the following are real shows, and which are the product of Stuart Jeffries' overheated imagination? - 5th August 2006
 * So 54 per cent of Britons want to live abroad? Good riddance to the moaners, I say. Now I'll be able to get a box at the opera - 4th August 2006
 * To abolish only non-Christian faith schools would be taken as an affront. The answer is that they all have to go - 28th July 2006
 * I used to think Madonna was flawless and I didn't realise Angelina Jolie's legs were ugly. Clearly I have no eye for detail - 7th July 2006
 * Here is a news quiz from the University of Clerkenwell. (You will be happy to hear there are no wrong answers) - 30th June 2006
 * You brighten my day? - Government tips on how we dads should talk to our children will make us less cool than ever - 16th June 2006
 * My partner and I are making a mockery of marriage, according to the Tories. Well, thank goodness for that - 2nd June 2006
 * So, six things made the west great but now civilisation is 'drifting' towards suicide. In 42 years, I'll prove that's wrong - 19th May 2006
 * When did the English stop being real men? It's hard to tell, especially if you are over 40, balding and, well, er, a man - 12th May 2006
 * First Hitler in Germany, then Mussolini in Italy, and now the BNP in the UK: will this left-wing conspiracy never end? - 28th April 2006
 * From now on we have to call the Dome 'O2'. What next? The Spearmint Rhino Diana Memorial Fountain? - 17th April 2006
 * Why dropping nukes may not be the best way for President Bush to 'save' Iran - or secure his place in history - 10th April 2006
 * How a new gadget ought to make tomorrow's party funding summit vibrate with excitement - 3rd April 2006
 * Why are the French so ready to take to the streets? Maybe because, unlike the British, they have something worth fighting for - 20th March 2006
 * It looks like Blair's favourite health guru won't become Baron Rehab of Roehampton after all. But the affair still stinks - 13th March 2006
 * People are looking for Blair's 'God told me to do it' moment - but this isn't it. He used his own reason to wage a false war - 6th March 2006
 * Prince Charles is not yet king, so does it really matter that he keeps making political statements? You bet it does - 27th February 2006
 * Sleep pods will help ad agencies sell more stuff to people, possibly those with insomnia. Stuff such as sleep pods - 20th February 2006
 * If Gordon Brown is having a makeover, so am I. Week one of Project Stuart: hot date with Chantelle and get more serious - 13th February 2006
 * In 2068, robots could subjugate humanity to their infernal will. Instead of being scared, why don't we marry them? - 6th February 2006
 * The Mozart effect: Listening to Mozart makes you a genius, apparently - shame it never worked for those cashing in on his birthday - 30th January 2006
 * Our first Brit Day won't all be fun and games. It will be a time for solemn meditation and, most likely, serious drinking - 16th January 2006
 * Forty things that definitely won't happen in 2006 - 2nd January 2006



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