This week I spotted a picture of Paris Hilton at some party and realised that this was the first I'd heard of her for a few months. The notorious heiress is not the gossip rag fixture she once was. Lo and behold, the Guardian ran a story ove...
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02 Dec 2009 08:38 GMT
This Friday, BBC 6 Music are holding a very special event. National Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work day is the brainchild of the legendary BBC Radio Indie God (or DJ, as he’s also known) Steve Lamacq, and is now in its second year.
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30 Nov 2009 09:39 GMT
Today the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.It’s a subject that’s close to my heart and the reason I was among 2,000 women who took to the streets of London on Saturday for 2009’s Reclaim The Night march, the sixth since RtN’s revi...
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25 Nov 2009 08:49 GMT
When Carla Bruni, wife of French president Nicholas Sarkosi, came to London last year, you’d be forgiven for thinking the UK newspapers had never seen a woman before. You could almost picture the tabloid editors dribbling over their computer screens every time a fresh batch of pictures came in, tongues lolling and eyes glazed. She did look good, but the overreaction was something to behold. The insanity was repeated when Michelle Obama came over – she took the liberty of showing her ar...
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19 Nov 2009 16:07 GMT
So now the world knows who Belle de Jour is. That she isn't the creation of well known authors, the fantasy of perverted men or even worse, Toby Young.
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18 Nov 2009 08:45 GMT
Here in America we don’t always like to practice what we preach, especially when what we preach benefits everyone. Because if everyone were to benefit from something we’d all just become a bunch of tree-hugging, pot-smoking socialists, and everyone knows socialists are the new communists.
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17 Nov 2009 23:00 GMT
Following the coverage of the Rihanna and Chris Brown abuse incident has been almost universally depressing. First there was the harrowing photograph of her battered face that was leaked by police, Brown’s fans relentlessly blogging about how she must have deserved it and, most recently, people saying she’s using her ‘victim’ status to sell records. If there was ever an event that showed how wide-spread misconceptions about intimate partner violence are, this was it.
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16 Nov 2009 11:00 GMT
I recently signed up to become a volunteer mentor for refugees. Mainly so I can look smug and falsely self-effacing when people ask me what I do in my spare time, and tell them I’ve devoted my life to “helping those less fortunate, a bit like Mother Teresa and Princess Diana”. But also because I thought it would be interesting – I wanted to know a bit more about how refugees and asylum seekers are treated here.
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12 Nov 2009 11:45 GMT
Say what you want about her politics, but Meghan McCain has a decent head on her shoulders. She's not afraid to follow a logical train of thought, even if it leads her to unsuspected places. Her latest piece for The Daily Beast goes into the practically beaten to death topic of female politicians in the media - but from a somewhat fresh perspective.
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09 Nov 2009 21:00 GMT
For once the government seems to have made a smart decision when it comes to sex education. And, of course, religious groups are crapping themselves left and right. The Times Online report that today the “at present there is no statutory requirement” for teaching about relationships or the “emotional side” of sexual behavior, but starting in 2011, all 15-year-olds must receive at least
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06 Nov 2009 10:43 GMT