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Barbara EllenThe Guardian |
The reviews are in for the trailer for the imminent Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black . Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, it stars Marisa Abela as...
Are young people, especially creatives, as excited about London, as driven to live in it, as people like me once were? The answer appears to be a very...
I’m talking about music festivals. I can’t abide them and never could, even when I was a fresh-faced goth, with crimped hair, a tummy full of...
Paloma Faith does her best to keep it real. The singer-songwriter’s new album, The Glorification Of Sadness, is about break-up struggles. Her 2021...
Has childhood been cancelled? Or rebranded as first-stage “old”; a last-chance saloon for preventive skincare? Inspired by social media,...
Who’s in the mood to throw a pity party for Oscar Pistorius? Anyone? Or, like me, do you find his crime so disturbing it rather sticks in the craw...
As 2024 looms into view, let’s do a mental exercise. What happened the last time you were hungry? In the mental picture you’re conjuring, are you...
In its defence of the civil court action brought by Prince Harry, Mirror Group Newspapers argued to the death that there was not a shred of evidence...
Before we fully enter the festive season, succumbing to the sweet rustling embrace of mistletoe and Quality Street, please could we consider the good...
Whatever else might be said about Prince Harry, he got to pull the sword from the stone. He got his day in court, his longed-for legal vindication,...
Is Taylor Swift pop music’s last great troublemaker? Or has it always been the done thing for the Time magazine person of the year to use their...
Are issues surrounding sexual consent (the relentless murk, mystery and misunderstandings) doomed to remain roughly the same, generation to...
Is it retrospective censorship to object to Little Britain? Or is it more complicated than that? A new Ofcom audience research study (also looking at...
A new US study from the University of California surveying 1,000 young people aged from 10 to 24, says that the majority of those aged between 13 and...
What is the appropriate response when a feminist “woke” rebrand not only fails but (whisper it) deserves to fail? For those who missed it, in...
I s slut-shaming having a retro-moment? Or is it rather that, for the slut-shamed, it never really goes away? Monica Lewinsky, the self-declared...
D id the binge-watch turn us into a nation of TV addicts? Or, for some of us, was the darkness always there? A Radio Times survey, involving...
O nce more, there are grim reports that the British high street is dying. It’s time for people like me to make it clear how much we care. To become...