Articles:
- Beastie Boy Adam Yauch: not just a celebrity activist - My brief encounter with Adam Yauch taught me that he was a musical pioneer, a champion of independent films, and a man who was true to himself - 9th May 2012
- Etan Patz: the tragedy that still haunts me - The case of one missing boy cast a shadow over a generation of American children. Last week brought another sad reminder - 25th April 2012
- Titanic anniversary: which tacky souvenir will you go for? - Companies have come up with some pretty tasteless ways to cash in on the 100th anniversary of the catastrophe. Can't they see the irony? - 11th April 2012
- The Mail simply threw Samantha Brick to the wolves - Clearly Brick's piece was absurd – but what's disgusting is the Mail's history of using and abusing female writers in this way - 5th April 2012
- Who would be Mitt Romney's running mate? - The Republicans have a knack for picking some real oddballs, so who might Romney have in mind? - 4th April 2012
- James Cameron and Sean Penn prove it's not easy being a celebrity - Here is my handy guide for celebrities intent on Doing Serious Things. James Cameron and Sean Penn, please take note - 28th March 2012
- Which is worse? Homophobic bullying at university or on the national political stage? - When one leads to Rick Santorum doing unexpectedly well in the Republican presidential primaries, we have to question the national attitude - 21st March 2012
- What David Cameron and Barack Obama should really be talking about - Never mind Syria and Afghanistan. These are the issues the people really want on the agenda - 14th March 2012
- Here's what's really wrong with the internet – and it isn't just some clunky computer coding - So a computer whizz thinks he knows what the worst thing about the internet is. Has he never seen a Twitter feud? - 7th March 2012
- The Artist is the perfect film about Hollywood - What distinguishes this this Oscar-winner from its competitors is the way that it mythologises the past but trashes it too - 29th February 2012
- Jeremy Lin row reveals deep-seated racism against Asian-Americans - The racism directed at NBA Asian-American basketball player Jeremy Lin has been quite something to behold - 21st February 2012
- Romance is in the air for the GOP and the Catholic church - United by a belief in the evil but simultaneously sacred nature of sex, the Republican party and the Catholic church are made for each other - 15th February 2012
- Now the American right has even hijacked breast cancer's pink ribbon - The most seemingly apolitical things are now deepy political. Having helmet-like hair: rightwing. Eating vegetables: leftwing - 9th February 2012
- Running for president or for an Oscar – which is the bigger waste of money? - Mitt Romney has spent $9m on advertising. Charlize Theron's Golden Globes outfit cost $8m. It will only get more difficult to differentiate between the Oscars and the Republican primaries as both reach panic stations - 1st February 2012
- Ever wondered what happened to Sarah Palin? Well Newt Gingrich has eaten her and absorbed her shtick - Just like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich blames the media for his own failings and insists he's an outsider – despite his frequent references to his time with Ronald Reagan - 25th January 2012
- This US election is all about money and class - Last time the key issue was race. It's not been mentioned in this campaign so far - but race and class are deeply knotted together - 18th January 2012
- The Republicans could learn more than just silence from The Artist - Listen up GOP candidates: you can only recycle the past if you do it with intelligence, wit and conviction - 11th January 2012
- Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter – 2012 is off to a surreal start - The circus surrounding his arrival on the networking site continues the unravelling of the Murdoch myth - 3rd January 2012
- My top 2012 prediction: the Republicans try to ban sex for women - Looking into my crystal ball, I also predict that 2012 will see Newt Gingrich becoming the face of the family values party and Shane Warne literally becoming Elizabeth Hurley - 21st December 2011
- Obama promised to listen to scientists – so why restrict the morning-after pill? - Obama promised to 'return science to its rightful place'. So why is he breaking that promise with restrictions on emergency contraception? - 14th December 2011
- Donald Trump for GOP debate host? You're hired! - The Republican presidential race already resembles a reality TV show, so who better than the 'star' of The Apprentice to play a part in the election of the president? - 7th December 2011
- Single women: an American obsession - In certain parts of the US, or even just New York, there remains a weirdly monetised and loveless view of marriage. Enough! - 30th November 2011
- Two new films reveal the death and triumph of the American dream - To understand what state America is in, just watch two documentaries about the death penalty and Sesame Street's Elmo - 15th November 2011
- Oscars 2012: now Eddie Murphy's gone, who can be the host with the most? - Eddie Murphy has pulled out of hosting next year's Oscars out of loyalty to Brett Ratner. But who should take Murphy's place? - 10th November 2011
- Why am I so excited about 11/11/11? - Friday's marks The Date That Most Resembles Corduroy. I'm so excited I just can't contain myself - 9th November 2011
- The Republican presidential candidates are farcically unelectable - Obama must have made a pact with the devil – how else to explain his good fortune? - 2nd November 2011
- Madonna's W.E. and my 'Inconvenient Nazi' theory - The new film about Wallis Simpson assembles all the bad movie cliches – and tries to downplay those Nazi skeletons - 26th October 2011
- Will free BlackBerry apps make it better? You betcha - The hysteria over the BlackBerry crash in Britain mystified me – but I love the idea of free apps as compensation - 19th October 2011
- Disappointed that Ryan Gosling doesn't drive more? Get over it - The makers of the film Drive are being sued for not having enough, er, driving in it. But it's not the first to have a 'misleading' trailer - 12th October 2011
- Oh joy! The Arrested Development cast staged a reunion – and I was there - The TV sitcom was awesome and on stage the actors were every bit as good. No wonder I lost my shizzle - 5th October 2011
- What The X Factor USA and the Republican party debate have in common - In the eyes of Simon Cowell and the GOP, the public is easy roadkill on the path to power - 28th September 2011
- Fur flies in California - West Hollywood council has banned fur sales. Well, thank heaven they didn't make a porn movie about it – Peta has - 22nd September 2011
- With Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Johann Hari, autumn is turning into the season for apologies - But, even when they're acknowledging their faults, it's still best not to expect public figures to actually use the word 'sorry' - 21st September 2011
- Hurricane Irene or Britain adopting misogynistic attitudes: I know which I find scarier - To see British politicians adopting the Christian right's anti-women attitudes is scarier than an earthquake sent by God - 31st August 2011
- DSK: a trial of the accuser not the accused - The Strauss-Kahn case proves that only a woman who has led a life as sheltered as Rapunzel makes a convincing rape victim - 24th August 2011
- Proof of Republican 'doublethink' - The Republican party is engaged in a mash-up between Orwell's 1984 and It's a Wonderful Life, with chilling results - 17th August 2011
- The US credit downgrade makes the US look like losers. That's the problem - The reaction to S&P's decision is as much about the nation's collective ego as it is about the practical impact - 10th August 2011
- What is the link between the media and eating disorders? - We all know that the way the media judge women's bodies is sick – but how directly this leads to eating disorders is less clear - 3rd August 2011
- Amy Winehouse's death was badly reported - There's a way to report celebrity deaths – and the way the media reported Amy Winehouse's death wasn't right - 27th July 2011
- I now refer Rupert Murdoch to The Wizard of Oz - If the witch is Murdoch, the flying monkeys could be the politicians who supped from Murdoch's trough yet now claim to be digusted by the man - 20th July 2011
- Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare - If Rupert Murdoch had paid attention to the works of Shakespeare, he would have known that thishacking farrago would end badly - 13th July 2011
- My Hollywood tips for Kate and Wills - Take my advice on how to enjoy Los Angeles after you've suffered the Canada experience - 29th June 2011
- New York must pass the same-sex marriage bill - If gay weddings aren't legalised, I will feel the same anger and shame that I felt when Bush was re-elected - 22nd June 2011
- After the email dump [redacted is history] - The tainted love between [redacted] and the media has reached its nadir with the email dump - 15th June 2011
- Your sex scandal questions answered - Next time you see a photo of an unhappy male face but can't place the source of your revulsion, try this quiz - 8th June 2011
- Funny women do exist in the movies - Female-centred comedies such as Bridesmaids are great, but male-run Hollywood and male-dominated audiences just don't get the joke - 1st June 2011
- Oprah Winfrey: the show is over - Oprah Winfrey made actors cry, authors grovel and audiences whoop. As the talkshow host ends her 25-year run, her unique, soul-baring style should be applauded - 25th May 2011
- Cheryl Cole and Kate Middleton – tips for America - Forget talent. All a fairytale princess needs to succeed in America is a complete lack of body fat - 11th May 2011
- So what does Obama think of Pippa Middleton? - Now that Osama is dead, there are other urgent questions for Obama to answer - 4th May 2011
- The royal wedding versus the American presidential election - William and Kate or Obama and Mitt Romney: which couple will win the battle of the bores? - 20th April 2011
- How to make cocaine uncool - Dennis Quaid and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson have done their best to make the drug look unsexy but I've got some better ideas - 13th April 2011
- It's exciting to hear that so many women writers work in the nude - But can I suggest accessorising with a giant padlock, plus a pair of concrete shoes - 11th April 2011
- Donald Trump: the Republicans' only hope - As Frankenstein is showing on the London stage, a real-life version is being played out in the US with Donald Trump as monster - 6th April 2011
- Rape is not a compliment - Once again, in the case of Delroy Grant, the public seems unable to accept the idea that rape has nothing to do with desirability - 30th March 2011
- Who should succeed Gaddafi? Step forward Marty McFly - A successor for Gaddafi? Easy: step forward Martin Sheen or Marty McFly, a hero with a track record for beating Libyan terrorists - 23rd March 2011
- America's Jane Austen dating methods - It is shameful to see America, the once great superpower, basing its dating methods on ye olde British customs - 16th March 2011
- PR advice for Charlie Sheen and other celebrity dummies - Dear Charlie, I know things haven't been going too well, so here's a little advice: have a nice hot cup of shut up - 9th March 2011
- The real winner at the Oscars this year - How the internet has saved television (though it has failed to solve the mystery of what happened to F Murray Abraham). Plus, the solution to journalism's woes - 23rd February 2011
- My cut-out-and-keep guide on how to stop women having sex - Follow this and the anti-abortion and pro-chastity folk in America can stop worrying - 9th February 2011
- Should Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton be patriotic about designers? - Should Kate Middleton support British designers? - 2nd February 2011
- Whether it's Tiger Mother's tough love or hapless teenage pregnancies on reality TV, America is fascinated by parenting porn - Watching other people screw up their kids more than you screw up yours is a vicarious pleasure - 26th January 2011
- How best to win an Oscar – try female oral sex - If you've played gay, done the learning disability, tried the foreign accent, well here's a new trick: cunnilingus - 12th January 2011
- 2011 will be the best! - Think vajazzling, going rogue, and all those celebrities who are single at last - 22nd December 2010
- Celebrities have found a new route to self-promotion - Forget advertising tasteless tat, celebrities have jumped on a better bandwagon – supporting causes in the news - 15th December 2010
- If only talking about Sarah Palin didn't boost her power - She treats criticism of her as proof that she is the lone outsider, one of the common folk, pilloried by a corrupt media - 10th December 2010
- Returning to England feels like journeying back to the 70s - Stroppy students, strikes, snow, spies – what's changed in 40 years? - 8th December 2010
- Has Botox had its day? - Botox has never looked so tacky – and the shocking revelation that Colonel Gaddafi uses it can't be good for business - 1st December 2010
- Welcome to America, where you get yelled at when you arrive and felt up when you leave - Fig-leaf underpants – the new weapon against America's airport body scanners - 24th November 2010
- George Bush's memoirs play like a made-for-TV movie - The more normal our leading politicians attempt to sound in their autobiographies the loopier they appear - 10th November 2010
- The Walkman has gone, and I must move on - I have the same problem as Hollywood – too much nostalgia for the 80s - 27th October 2010
- Carl Paladino's confused homophobic principles - If Carl Paladino, candidate for New York governor, can't sort out his own homophobic principles how can he sort out the traffic on Second Avenue? - 20th October 2010
- An oil-stained BP uniform is the Halloween outfit for 2010 - You can tell a lot about Americans' state of mind by their Halloween costumes. This year's baddies are BP and Lady Gaga - 13th October 2010
- Cyber-bullying: bullying by another name - Judging by recent events, some might think the internet was invented purely for puerile, sexual bullying - 6th October 2010
- How evil is Facebook? - Think of it as your life going down the drain while you spend hours casuallly stalking other people's lives - 29th September 2010
- Young Americans look to Jon Stewart for news - With his 'rally to restore sanity', Jon Stewart has become the figurehead for American liberalism – not bad for a comedy show host - 22nd September 2010
- Sarah Palin's inaugural address - What if Sarah Palin did run for the presidency with Glenn Beck? And what if they won? - 15th September 2010
- What could be better than the man who once pocketed a £21m bonus being called Diamond? - Step forward his replacement – Rich Ricci - 8th September 2010
- How great is the automated lacing system? - Ask me to choose my favourite US TV advertising invention? You can't get more stupid than the automated lacing system - 1st September 2010
- Obama, me, and the new Franzen novel - I've read the eagerly awaited new Jonathan Franzen novel, but so has Obama – and that worries me - 25th August 2010
- Tony Blair's £5m pledge is not enough - Luckily, I can think of far better ways to salvage the former prime minister's sorry reputation - 18th August 2010
- Celebrities have invaded world affairs - Naomi Campbell and Wyclef Jean have turned the news into the new reality television - 11th August 2010
- I had a holiday from hell - My advice if you're planning to go away this year? Stay at home - 4th August
- Bristol Palin: the one person too boring for reality TV - Sarah Palin's daughter's wedding won't be the subject of a documentary because she 'doesn't have a personality' - 21st July 2010
- To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash - The backlash against Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is as inevitable as it is stupid. It's payback for her being so reclusive - 30th June 2010
- Pity the US with Piers Morgan heading its way - Piers Morgan is simply a British celebrity that Britain does not get - whereas the US, well, it thinks it does - 16th June 2010
- Madonna didn't free the gay Malawians – she just signed a petition! - Celebrities don't make the difference they think they do - 2nd June 2010
- This is the way to fund the royals - Am I missing something? There seems to be an intimation that Prince Andrew, our special representative for golf, is important - 26th May 2010
- Isn't what a politician does more important than what he or she is? - Elena Kagan's sexuality and the absence of women MPs are obsessions we could do without. People are people – aren't they? - 19th May 2010
- General election 2010: Meltdown on air - Adam Boulton's clash with Alastair Campbell was in the tradition of TV newshands losing it - 12th May 2010 (Cif at the polls)
- Why is the US mocking our 'Harry Potter' election? - British voters and politicians have been treated to quite extraordinary levels of condescension from American commentators - 5th May 2010
- Just how boring will the party leaders' debate be? - The election debate is almost upon us. So what's the very worst that could happen? Apart from it being completely dull - 15th April 2010
- The diligent get sick, too - Martina Navratilova's response to her cancer diagnosis risks feeding the idea of illness as personal failing - 10th April 2010
- Christianity: it's time to restore its image - Christianity has been having a harsh time of it recently. Which is why it needs to follow this failsafe comeback plan - 7th April 2010
- The real reason Jamie Oliver failed in America - Don't blame the end of the special relationship – Americans just didn't like being lectured on what to eat - 31st March 2010
- Samantha Cameron is pregnant – the latest twist in the election TV drama - MPs expelled, risque pictures, pregnancy . . . and the election hasn't even started. Who's writing this script? - 24th March 2010
- Politicians and their pasts - Whether it's David Cameron or Lib Dem candidate Anna Arrowsmith, it's not where a politician went to school that interests me, it's what they did afterwards - 18th March 2010
- Facebook groups are the new lynch mobs - These reactionary campaigners confuse the concept of 'justice' with 'vigilante vengeance' - 10th March 2010
- National stereotypes are thriving – at least in fashion and figure skating - National cliches are de rigueur in the fashion world and, as the Winter Olympics demonstrate, in figure skating too - 3rd March 2010
- It has been a fabulous week for public spats - Cheryl Cole's T-shirts just about have the edge on Anna Ford's and Martin Amis's letters - 24th February 2010
- How to be British - It takes more than queueing to fit in here. How about self-deprecation and Marks & Spencer? - 17th February 2010
- Who do you trust more: Alastair Campbell or Peter Andre? - They've both had 'moments' on TV. But it's the contrasting public reactions to them that's interesting - 10th February 2010
- Me and my homeopathic overdose - How I knocked back a bottle of homeopathic 'medicine' and lived to tell the tale - 3rd February 2010
- The amazing truth about Zoolander - Did you think Zoolander was just a funny film about the fashion industry? Really? It is, I'll have you know, all true - 27th January 2010
- What's with all this talk of 'cougars'? - Why are women being labelled like animals in the zoo for dating younger men?'s - 20th January 2010
- Awful ads, crass jingles and Dale Winton – daytime TV fodder is now primetime - In a recession we're assumed to be sitting ducks for any money-saving tip - 6th January 2010
- The noughties are defined by fakery - And the most embarrassing example has been the rise of 'fake science', which values naivety over facts – a bit like Sarah Palin - 30th December 2009
- The baiting and the snark - The gossip sites mourning Brittany Murphy reveal more about the bullying scrutiny actors now face - 23rd December 2009
- In defence of Christmas gift guides - People hate Christmas gift guides because they take them seriously, instead of reading them as hideous expressions of contempt - 17th December 2009
- European: America's favourite insult - When in America, if you wish to describe something as bad, you can just call it 'European'. It's very useful - 9th December 2009
- The end of the decade is nigh and the need for lists is upon us - What was the best album of the decade? The most significant YouTube video? The defining hairstyle? Best list of the decade? (Answer: this one of course) - 2nd December 2009
- Thanksgiving's making me feel queasy - But with Sarah Palin eyeing the presidency and Scientology in trouble there are at least reasons to celebrate - 26th November 2009
- The Madoff "car boot" sale was the only place to be - The worst thing about all this tat was that it was rubbish bought with other people's money - 18th November 2009
- Precious is an extraordinary film about race - Who'd have thought a film about a sexually abused black teenager would make whole cinemas stand and cheer? - 11th November 2009
- How to market a dead celebrity tastefully - Joe Jackson would be well advised to refrain from commenting on his son's improved earning power - 4th November 2009
- Obama's games for the White House boys - Is Barack Obama sexist for failing to invite female colleagues along to his basketball nights? - 28th October 2009
- Pretentious? Moi? - Does anyone – apart from fashion designers – talk about their work as inanely as actor - 21st October 2009
- Who'd marry a politician? - Political wives have always been interesting subjects, but now they've been turned into celebrities and are judged accordingly - 8th October 2009
- How will celebrity biographies top the Mackenzie Phillips story? - Revelation is the most important element, now that publishers are so desperate for media attention - 30th September 2009
- Jennifer Aniston movies, hateful horror films, cosmetic surgery – what the US should ban - In America there are worse things to outlaw than smoking - 23rd September 2009
- Fox News' rabid propagandist Glenn Beck has lured me to America - He wants to recreate the spirit shown the day after 9/11. But it's a worrying kind of patriotism he's whipping up - 16th September 2009
- Sexual abuse of models is fashion's dirty secret - Instead of getting worked up over a little tummy fat the industry should tackle the issue of rape - 9th September 2009
- When a slavering press brands kidnap victims such as Jaycee Lee Dugard 'sex slaves', it shames them - Why don't abducted and abused girls get the same anonymity as other rape victims? - 2nd September 2009
- If Obama can stand up to Scotland, why can't he stand up to the Republicans? - If only the president would forget the cool and reasoned debate for a moment, and take a tip from Barney Frank - 26th August 2009
- Abortion is the one taboo left in the world of comedy - Why Family Guy has offended everyone - 19th August 2009
- Even when they produce their own Hollywood romcoms, why do female actors still allow themselves to be humiliated? - the ugly truth about female actors in romcoms - 13th August 2009
- Celebrity scoops are not always in the public interest - Magazines and reality TV have combined to make emotional pornography seem almost acceptable - 5th August 2009
- From shlock to sleaze: why you never want to fall victim to a celebrity's chat-up line - You never want to get chatted up by a famous person - 29th July 2009
- First Arlene Phillips gets the boot then Tom Watson blows it at the Open – it's a tough time for older people - In a month when there were doom-laden warnings about the pressures on social services from our increasing number of pensioners, it was heartening to see an older man on track to win the British Open. But then came disaster - 22nd July 2009
- Madoff got away with it for so long because no one understands finance - Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which bankrupted thousands, worked so well because no one knows how to read financial records - 15th July 2009
- No one at the 10 Years Younger Live event expected any of these products to work - so why be there? - Why were they doing all this? Beryl and Jackie looked at each other: 'Well you have to do something' - 8th July 2009
- The new confessional journalism turns female writers into tedious, self-hating semi-celebrities - These women need help; they do not need to be made to feel that their professional USP is to play up their misery - 1st July 2009
- As Jacko found, fame means trusting only cats and chimps - Michael Jackson's fate is a garish warning to all those craving stardom. Instead of love, think paranoia and isolation - 27th June 2009
- The people's king of pop? - Michael Jackson's death is not A Diana Moment. The public's craving for collective emotion leads only to false emotion - 27th June 2009
- I refuse to join the chorus of outrage about Bruno. It's a very moral film - despite the pygmy sex - Frankly, I'm far more offended by movies in which the gay character is, yet again, the neutered sidekick - 24th June 2009
- The worst thing about not eating meat isn't the limp salads - it's the other vegetarians - The whole shebang has taken on the sweaty sheen of bossiness and moral superiority. It makes me want to stuff a fistful of veal in their gobs - 17th June 2009
- The farce ceiling - Our CEOs and celebrities may struggle to get it, but it's not hard to see why this feminism thing exists - 3rd June 2009
- Mr Cheney, please, tell us about it - Babbling away like a Speaker's Corner regular, Bush's former guru is doing him a final favour - 23rd May 2009
- Forget the concertos or whatever, was Mozart hot? - Looks trump talent these days – and nowhere more so than in the US. Now even historical figures get the 'hottie' treatment - 15th May 2009
- The Dubya diaries - The advance might be modest, but that won't stop George trying all those Henry James tricks - 20th March 2009
- Uncool Britannia - Awards season brings out the worst in UK fawning before Americans. Stop it. Pull yourselves together - 12th February 2009
- There goes the sisterhood - A new book of tips for single women hints at a spiteful and combative trend in feminism - 26th January 2009
- Toxins are all in the mind - Whatever Gwyneth or Beyoncé do, cutting out major food groups can be very bad for your healt - 6th January 2009
- Scarlett does not reveal all - Cosmo's fake interview scandal could provide a solution to those bland celebrity puff pieces - 20th December 2008
- Affluence, it's so last season - The recession has got fashion glossies in a tizz. They should take a tip from Marie Antoinette - 27th November 2008
- Anything to get onscreen - A nadir in reality TV lays bare - very bare - the dangers of being famous for being famous alone - 6th October 2008
- Despite being a woman, Sarah Palin doesn't get my vote - While a female VP would be nice, John McCain can't just throw any lady on the podium and expect us all to squeal excitedly - Guardian.co.uk - 1st September 2008
- Only the clotheshorses can buck fashion's thin fixation - The labels won't, and nor will the glossies. It takes the likes of Kate Moss to challenge the addiction to skinny models - 28th August 2008
- The sartorial prerogative - Across the centuries, aristocratic women have held little sway except through their clothing - 23rd August 2008
- Style is all about self - It is heartening that the latest edition of Vogue suggests age need not dictate what we wear - 18th June 2008
- Gloriously tragic - ...on the humanising minutiae that make a memoir - 13th May 2008
- The Witty touch - Katharine Witty, Mohamed Al Fayed's latest media spokeswoman, was one of the revelations of the Diana inquest. But why would anyone want to take such a job? - 9th april 2008
- Pushing all the right buttons - Blair's political wardrobe - 11th May 2007
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