Janet Street-Porter

Profile: Full name: Area of interest: Society, media, culture and politics - with emphasis on social justice and also environment concerns Journals: The Independent on Sunday | The Independent | Daily Mail Email: janet.street-porter@independent.co.uk Personal website: http://www.janetstreetporter.com Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/janet-street-porter | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/columnist-1032350/Janet-Street-Porter.html Blog: Representation: http://unitedagents.co.uk/janet-street-porter Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/JanetStPorter

Biography: About: http://www.janetstreetporter.com/jsp_page.php?pg_id=10 Education: Lady Margaret School, London; studied at the Architectural Association for two years Career: Worked briefly for girls' magazine Petticoat; joined The Daily Mail (1969), becoming deputy fashion editor; moved to the Evening Standard (1971): fashion editor; in this period was also a specialist writer on design and architecture for Architectural Design, Design magazine, Harpers and Queen and Vogue; began a broadcasting career in 1973 as a commercial radio host…; returned to journalism as editor of The Independent on Sunday, 1999/2001, then editor-at-large 2002- see also Newspaper work (Wikipedia) Current position/role: Independent on Sunday: editor-at-large; Daily Mail: columnist also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Television presenter, producer, author Other: activities (Wikipedia) Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Press cuttings (JanetStreet-Porter.com) Sorry, I'm a shame free zone - The Daily Mail, 15th September 2006 'I am not an amateur' - They mocked her accent, they said she was a terrible role model, they complained she was overexposed. But Janet Street-Porter shrugged it all off. So why is she so jumpy about talking to Stuart Jeffries? - Interview by Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 6th April 2007 Interview - AsRecommended.co.uk, 2008 Broadcast media: http://www.janetstreetporter.com/jsp_diary_new.php?pg_id=93 work (Wikipedia) Television work (JanetStreet-Porter.com) Video: IMDb Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: BAFTA award for originality for the Channel 4 TV series Network 7 (1988); Prix Italia, Emmy nomination and a Classical Music Award for a reworking of the German romantic opera The Vampyr (1992) Scoops: Other: Personal life (Wikipedia)

Books & Debate: The British teapot (1981) OCLC 8095636 Scandal (1981) OCLC 8095636 Coast to coast with Janet Street-Porter (1998) OCLC 40758186 As the crow flies: a walk from Edinburgh to London in a straight line (1999) OCLC 40882154 Baggage: my childhood (2004) OCLC 55805962 Incest: a tragic tale, by Marquis de Sade (2003) OCLC 51107433 (foreword) Fall out (2006) OCLC 68771071 The walk of life (2005) OCLC 58455387 Latest work: Life's too f***ing short (2008) OCLC 180477513 ~ watch meet the author (VIDEO) See also books (JanetSteet-Porter.com) Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Independent on Sunday: Column name: Remit/Info: Society, media, culture and politics Section: Role: Editor-at-large Pen-name: Email: janet.street-porter@independent.co.uk Website: Independent.co / Janet Street-Porter Commissioning editor: Day published: Sunday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Multiple: main item plus usually two more items (can be three of four) Average length:

Articles: 2012 A wedding day should be a gay day - Marriage is pretty unattractive to many straight people. We don't get tax breaks, and our political leaders (apart from Cameron) are too wet to stick up for it - 20th May No lipstick? Glasses? It's just politics - When Hillary Clinton says she's no longer bothered about the way she looks, I don't believe her - 13th May Job sharing divides work more fairly - Wouldn't Britain run a lot more smoothly if every citizen was handed a lethal pill at 75? Compulsory death – there's a lot to be said for it - 29th April Kids... sit up, scrub up and buckle down - There's an easy way to tell when a government is deep in the brown stuff: every day it makes self-important statements designed to divert attention from a catastrophic loss of direction - 22nd April Jesus didn't say you get a generous tax break thrown in - Every day, I'm asked to support a charitable cause – to do a funny drawing, send a signed book, go on a group walk, donate a pair of specs or a frock. Sadly, it rarely involves just sticking my hand in my pocket - 15th April Nobody has a stake in Britain until they have grafted too - The findings of the report into the causes behind last summer's riots fell back on that over-used piece of political jargon, the term "stakeholder" - 1st April ‘Freedom of choice’ means nothing in a class-ridden society - George Osborne's Budget – a complex set of financial imperatives painstakingly designed to take sickly Britain Plc a tiny, faltering step down to the road to solvency – has opened another bout of class warfare - 25th March The police must shape up, knuckle down, and change - Calls for reform, from filing to fitness, have hit the rigid mindset that blights a once proud service - 18th March Marriage is dying, but let gay couples have it, all the same - If marriage were a car, it would be heading for the scrapyard - 11th March Kate's dry bar visit is on trend – binge drinking is old hat - She's patron of Action on Addiction, and the idea behind the Brink is to make having a night out without alcohol as fun as the alternative when you get slaughtered - 19th February We can help women into paid work, but where are the jobs? - Steve Hilton, Dave Cameron's "blue sky thinker" might be parodied online and mocked for his ghastly taste in casual wear, but I'll give him credit for one thing – persuading the PM to attend a get-together last week with the heads of the Nordic Baltic countries - 12th February We're being told to holiday in Britain. This is my reply ... - 5th February Why Gingrich scares the party establishment - If the former speaker of the house slips past Mitt Romney to become presidential candidate, that will spell disaster for Republicans - 29th January The BBC is like the Titanic – going down fast - When Mark Thompson steps down as director- general of the BBC after the Olympics, who should replace him and what should they earn? - 29th January They pile in to damn Sir Fred's gong, but what will it change? - Politicians are jumping over each other to demand that the disgraced former RBS chief Fred "the Shred" Goodwin should be stripped of his knighthood - 22nd January Looks do count, Ed, but it's conviction that voters like most - Sadly he exudes desperation, and that's never an appealing quality in any man - 15th January Bin those useless self-help books and tuck in to a pie - January is traditionally the month of deep self-loathing - 8th January

Articles: 2011 The royal liggers should stick around in hard-up Britain - Buckingham Palace has a terrible sense of timing. As the latest figures show unemployment reaching the highest level for 17 years, one group of plucky Brits can look forward to a spot of sun and fun in 2012 - 18th December Most Britons' idea of exercise is reaching for their Dairy Milk - I guarantee that the one sport we'll win gold medals at in 2012 is loafing. We'll excel at lounging on a sofa staring at a screen, one hand around a jumbo bar of Dairy Milk, the other resting by a can of fizzy liquid - 11th December Let's sober up – and stand up to booze industry bullies - It's that time of year again – pubs and pizzerias full of gurning office workers wearing paper hats and pulling crackers, downing house plonk by the bucket load, all in the name of seasonal good cheer - 5th December We are more unkind and callous, and yet everyone's in tears - Ed Balls blubs – not because more black boys rot in jail than attend our leading universities – but at the price of a pot on Antiques Roadshow - 27th November Creating fear is this brutal government's idea of a policy - Around 9pm on Wednesday, a police helicopter hovered a few hundred feet over my home (next to sheltered housing for the elderly) in central London - 13th November Dear Bob Diamond... - I was thrilled you've finally realised that you and your high-earning pals are the single most reviled group of "workers" in the UK. Maybe it's because you make huge amounts of money by the click of a mouse and profit by other people's debts, while the rest of us think that work is something that involves an activity, a physical or mental effort, an interaction with a reality rather than an inspired gamble - 6th November Women must look after themselves, not rely on the law - Clare Wood met George Appleton on Facebook... - 30th October Yes choose our friends, we don't control them - We're constantly being told that modern society is full of lonely singletons - 16th October We pack all our troubles into cake, corn and nostalgia - Dave Cameron's big speech last week sounded more like a dog's dinner to me - 9th October 'Songs of Praise': top programme, shame about the church - The world's longest-running religious series celebrates its 50th birthday today - 2nd October Treating visitors to Britain like idiots is far from GREAT - How to solve Britain's much publicised problems? - 25th September It's jobs for the boys, and cheese and wine for the girls - Hungry for power, Dave was keen to woo us, chatting away on Mumsnet, ensuring he was photographed taking his kids to school, helping out in the kitchen. Come election time, repulsed by Gordon Brown's macho infighting, we fell for the propaganda – and millions of Tory and Lib Dem female voters were reassured when Dave said his government would be the "most family friendly ever" - 18th September Harrogate's fall to Tesco is yet another victory for the bland - Well done, Tesco! Your masterplan for total domination of the UK is complete - 11th September There's more to school than learning how to obey orders - Are soldiers the right people to teach unruly kids? - 4th September British justice should not be about revenge - even against looters - The images of gangs of hoodies smashing up shops and looting made me feel ashamed of my country, but the testosterone-fuelled response of our leaders was equally cringe making - 28th August A class imprisoned by tribalism, lack of work and filthy food - How do we stop the riots happening again? I agree with Iain Duncan Smith that locking young people up is no solution and exposes them to career criminals - 21st August Don't blame the looters... - ... blame our hypocritical leaders - 14th August Friends. The one where best mates desert each other - Gosh, I'm pleased I've never made Rebekah Brooks' Christmas card list. I'm proud I wasn't one of the ladies invited to Sarah Brown's slumber parties at Chequers - 17th July The 'NOTW' habit was as addictive as crack - According to Mr Cameron, 'we have all been in this together – the press, the politicians and leaders of all parties' - 10th July I’d rather shop with my mouse than with Mary Portas - I've never had much time for the self-important utterances of our Speaker's wife, but when Sally Bercow failed to find much sympathy for struggling retailers on Twitter, she hit on an uncomfortable truth - 3rd July Ideals go overboard when it comes to choosing a school - Don't you love the way alleged socialists justify their biggest act of hypocrisy? - 26th June Stop scapegoating our parents, you spineless politicos - I can't think of any job tougher than being a parent in modern Britain - 19th June End of life care is a disgrace... - ... I, for one, am staying home - 12th June Whistle-blowers risk all... - ... while the chiefs do nothing - 5th June The giving sector is a mess – and that's being charitable - David Cameron wants us to give more to charity – an admirable goal most of us would endorse - 29th May Let's be honest – there are far worse things than adultery - My goodness, is there something in the water? Open a newspaper, turn on the radio or the television and it's impossible to avoid middle-aged, successful men caught with their pants down - 22nd May Twitter is home to the dull and dysfunctional – I'll never join - 15th May Super- markets don't need royalty - The first post-wedding picture of our future Queen was taken in the car park of Waitrose in Anglesey - 8th May The monarchy at play... - ... it's the greatest show on earth - 1st May I'm spring-cleaning my brain, so those celebrities must go - A glorious Easter weekend is a perfect opportunity to do some spring-cleaning - 24th April Will the men at the top please stop their snivelling, and work? - What happened to the stiff upper lip? - 10th April Does Ed believe in marriage... - ... or is he merely canvassing? - 3rd April The BBC should ignore us, and just make programmes - We will pay the same licence fee until 2016, but what can we expect in return? - 27th March Midsomer is a nasty fantasy... - ... The truth is far more interesting - 20th March At last, the perfect job for Andrew ... He can be a dummy - The Queen, not known for talking intimately with her children, will be desperately hoping that someone can come up with a suitably face-saving solution to the Andrew problem - 13th March Official Bollocks... - ... the lingo that wastes cash and costs lives - 6th March Now only quotas will do women justice - The time has come for the blokes who run business in this country to change the way they operate - 27th February Lansley is to health what Clarkson is to road safety - Perhaps PM can rein in his cocky Health Secretary - 20th February Teachers to the rescue as Gove betrays our schools - The Secretary of State for Education has a serious problem on his hands - 12th February Cancer's link with alcohol is driving me to drink... - Friday wasn't a good day for feeling positive... - 6th February Never mind the old and ill... - ... protect the sacred wheelie bin - 30th January Schools should teach the three Rs: reading, writing and reality - Politicians made young people so many promises... - 23rd January Two cheers for Miriam... - ... but the BBC won't change - 16th January Upstairs, Downstairs is being lived out in 21st-century Britain - Will William and Kate do their own ironing and dusting? - 2nd January

Articles: 2010 Fame, then men think they're irresistible - Mr Cable is a very vain man – why else would he be on Strictly? - 26th December More women at the top? - Prospects for women will only improve if they are represented in the boardroom - 19th December Women now can thank my generation - Women in their twenties can now claim there's no glass ceiling - 12th December If we can travel in space, why are our trains at a standstill? - I'd never heard of the mysterious 'third rail' until last Thursday - 5th December Hail the Maria Callas of our times! Gillian's got it taped - This year's 'I'm a Celebrity...' is the best modern drama around - 28th November Mess with my GP's practice, Mr Lansley? Over my dead body! - Andrew Lansley is fast shaping up as my least favourite government minister - 21st November I'm a leading expert on mothers-in-law - My heart sank read ing the excruciating 'open letter' my pal Gordon Ramsay decided to 'send' his mother-in-law - 14th November Plans to invade our privacy make Street View look discreet - I thought the point of an Information Commissioner was to protect rights - 31st October You mustn't make a profit out of a peat bog - Be vigilant – some of our most precious assets are at risk as a result of Mr Osborne wielding the axe - 24th October Paying workers to give up their jobs is bad housekeeping - If I get a nasty tax bill and have to cut back on my spending, there are obvious, if unpleasant, measures - 17th October We don't have time for Big Society - The problem with Dave's concept is the basic assumption that we've got the time to get involved - 10th October These costly games are all about ego... - ... they do nothing for sport - 3rd October Stroppy machinists led the way, but it's still a man's world - The cheery British film Made in Dagenham (opening 1 October) tells the true story of 187 female machinists who went on strike at the giant Ford motor factory in Dagenham in 1968 - 19th September Is Rooney's Juicy Jeni so different from Belle de Jour? - Why be so judgemental about a pretty girl's lifestyle option - 12th September Tony Blair's boastful journey - Once, we took journeys to work, school, get the shopping or claim benefit - 5th September Baby boomers can't retire... - ... they need the money - 15th August Naomi's been crass, but what did we expect? - In her case, does an undisputed commitment to charitable causes balance glaring personality defects? - 8th August Say 'fat', and stop the nation eating itself to death - If I call you fat, is it kind or cruel? - 1st August The disaffection that created Moat is what matters - Walk around some city streets and you sense low-level aggression - 18th July The C of E will die if it shuts out gays and women - Our church seems to be turning into a club I'm not sure I want to be part of - 11th July Free choice not fit for school lunch menus - If you're poor you'll live 10 years less than someone from the middle classes - 4th July Self-control, not sex and booze, makes winners - I used to be addicted to Wimbledon; now I can't stand the mental torture - 27th June My blueprint for a better, cheaper, health service - What kind of National Health Service do you want? We're the rarely-consulted consumers, the front-line fodder for the NHS – but this cash-eating monolith (which gobbles up a sixth of all public spending) appears to operate to please its bureaucrats rather than the patient - 20th June Kids need parents, not a state nanny - Kids who are socially adept have parents who take an interest in them - 13th June The media turn tragedy into a spectacle - Cumbria killings resulted in a tidal wave of voyeurism fuelled by modern media - 6th June Let's find Fergie a job to do... - ... and save her from herself - 30th May Tesco – every bit of brand promotion helps - Why has our biggest retailer suddenly been stricken with a social conscience? - 23rd May Let cynics scoff... - ... a can-do Cabinet may pull it off - 16th May Business as usual... - ... very few women, far too many men - 9th May 13 years on: Who's the heir to Blair's lair? - Janet Street-Porter: Islington South used to be a safe Labour seat. Our writer, a local resident, went to watch the three leading candidates in action and found that even here, the world has moved on - 25th April Cameron insists we're all equal. The cheek of it! - I'm always up for a party – isn't that what we Brits are really good at? Celebrating, doing things to excess, having fun - 18th April A blow for justice... - ... if you're after the goldfish vote - 4th April Men showing off is bringing our country to a halt - Life is full of unexpected small pleasures. Last Friday, listeners to Radio Four's Today programme were granted a 24-carat nugget to treasure. Geoff Hoon – one of the most pompous prats I've encountered – squirmed, grovelled and, finally, apologised! It was a historic moment - 28th March Travel is great in the UK... - ... as long as you are a bat - 21st March Three cheers for Generation Y - Lucy Neville-Rolfe of Tesco is one of a handful of bosses who seem to delight in denigrating young people - 14th March It's poverty, not polygamy, that kills - I've never met Sally Bercow, but my nickname for this self-important female is an abbreviation of her - 7th March The doctor says looks don't count... - ... it didn't hurt her... - 28th February MPs are obsessed by class... - ... We just want nice trains - 21st February Kids should know the food on their plate - One in four kids under the age of 16 thinks that bacon comes from sheep - 14th February Who's cashing in on fine art...? - ... The banks, of course - 7th February A 999 call is a call for help... - ... Pity the police don't know - 31st January Only a price rise will stop booze culture - Why are politicians so feeble about tackling alcohol abuse? - 24th January

Articles: 2009 My best birthday present... - ... grown-up women on TV - 27th December Cowell to rescue British politics? - ... Give me a break - 20th December It's your perks that define your status - The Tories pledge they will cut ministers' pay by 5 per cent, but that's not enough - 13th December If kids can't read, how do they get a job? - Who's right? Last week, Ofsted delivered a report which claimed that around a third of our schools are substandard - 29th November The internet is no place to fight a general election - Has the level of political debate really come to this? - 22nd November Nurses are not heroines... - ... They are professionals - 15th November MPs - they still don't get it, do they? - What a bunch of whingers... and the women are worst of all - 8th November Face it, Martin – Katie sells books... - ... and you don't - 1st November Nicole's sex roles betray women - On the face of it, Nicole Kidman would seem to be a rum choice to be talking about violence against women - 25th October Tesco calls its big sites 'towns'... - ... I call them monopolies - 18th October A woman's place is on the platform - Bright women should be in power, not simpering at their men - 11th October Superwoman is now dolled up as the supermissus - Forget WAGs: there is a new female royalty - 4th October Harassed to death – why did no one listen? - Her story is so distressing that it makes me wonder what kind of neighbours lived in her street - 27th September A slimmer Auntie is more attractive - The BBC is now the bloated institution every politician wants to castrate - 20th September After Turing, shameful abuse of gays goes on - It's become fashionable for politicians to say sorry – generally for events they have no control over - 13th September The cure for stress is not pills but saying 'No' - Belatedly, the Government has announced that, along with alcohol and cigarettes, another highly popular and legal way of dealing with modern life's little difficulties is to be sold with a prominent health warning - 6th September University is no place for kids who need skills - When 97 per cent of boys and 98 per cent of girls gain A-level passes (and more than a quarter receive an A grade), the argument about standards is over. The A-level is thoroughly debased - 23rd August Twitter ye not, for it will not change the world - Never mind the twitterati – and here, unusually, I agree with David Cameron – anyone suffering from the desire to communicate what they are doing or thinking every minute of the day in fewer than 140 characters is best described as a twat - 16th August Harman could fix things... - ... but the men won't budge - 9th August Older mums are 'selfish', but older dads are studs ... - The death from cancer at 69 last week of the world's oldest mum produced some provocative headlines – and I suspect they were written by men - 19th July Three kinds of sorry... - ... and I know which one I trust - 12th July Graduates - More debts than knowledge - There's no point in getting a degree if you can't communicate your ideas - 5th July Superior BBC bosses take biscuit over pay - I can't waste energy getting worked up about BBC executives expenses - 28th June Class rift at the heart of the debacle - I laughed when an MP moaned about the hypocrisy of journalists over expenses - 21st June Hard-up mums need to work... - ... but kids pay dearly - 14th June Super- markets lop a penny off... - ... then ring up millions - 7th June Jail is pointless for Baby P's mother - She snivelled, "by not being fully open with the social workers, I stopped them from being able to do a full job." - 24th May Of course we're angry, but opting out is no answer - The BBC's Question Time was unforgettable television this week - 17th May If shopping is a drug, MPs need to go cold turkey - A year ago Gordon Brown lectured us on the evils of waste, and begged us to do our bit for the planet by throwing away less food. Sadly, he undermined his green message the next day when he boarded a privately chartered jet to the G8 summit in Japan (which had flown to London from Texas to pick him up, empty) and sat down to a six-course lunch followed by a dinner featuring 14 dishes - 10th May Mondeo Man is dead... - ... Women will swing the election - 3rd May Bullying is a form of class warfare - As a nation we pride ourselves on our individuality – so why do we bully anyone who dares to be different? - 26th April I like a drink. Does that make me an alcoholic? - 19th April Tomlinson was no saint, but he deserved better - Ian Tomlinson deserved some respect and understanding, and he clearly didn't get any that night - 12th April Able women going to waste, while men talk - The tabloid headline said it all: "Sarah has a girls' night in while the boys talk business." In other words, it was situation normal in the world of politics: men make the real decisions while their womenfolk talk about doing good and bringing up the kids - 5th April Balls is fiddling while education goes up in smoke - Has there ever been a more useless chap in charge of education? - 29th March Why don't we take to the streets over job losses? - Last week, the number of people out of work passed two million for the first time in 12 years, with workers in commercial businesses losing their jobs at the shocking rate of more than 20,000 a week. And how did the British people take these shocking figures last Wednesday? We settled down on our sofas to watch Orangutan Diary on BBC2, Nature's Great Events on BBC1 or Grand Designs on Channel 4. There's nothing like opting for a spot of mindless escapism when the shit hits the fan, is there? - 22nd March More love and 12 victims would have lived - Lack of self-respect and low self-esteem lie at the heart of this tragedy - 15th March We need older workers... - ... they know everything - 8th March To lose a child is agony – and the pain never goes - ‘My partner and I could not bear to be in the room when his disabled son died’ - 1st March Digging is good for you... - ... Just don’t expect to enjoy it - 22nd February Wedding bells to wedding hell in one generation - Marriage couldn't be more unattractive – the number of us getting hitched has slumped to the lowest level since records began, 150 years ago. By next year, it's predicted that singletons will be in the majority - 15th February BBC was right to get the stupid celeb out of there -Carol Thatcher, martyr in the cause of free speech or dumb blonde? - 8th February Look who's worst off in recession - women - Here's my advice on how to cope with the credit crisis: pour a drink and eat a bar of chocolate - 1st February Fatherhood is for life... - ... it's not just about the DNA - 25th January Another butterfly broken on a wheel - It's hard to think of Boy George as a butterfly, but try - 18th January The year we went green just shows what we can do - The only way to deal with rubbish is closer to home - 4th January

Articles: 2008 Haggling in the souk is our new way to shop - Even Blair rearranged his schedule to be first through the door at the Armani sale - 28th December 2008 That's a bit rich – the church going on about wealth - How should we spend Christmas – make do and mend, or spend and be damned? The church and the state slugged it out last week, with the Archbishop of Canterbury claiming the moral high ground - 21st December 2008 Bankrupt Blighty – no dosh, and even less style - 14th December 2008 Another mother slips through the net - Everyone has an opinion about Karen Matthews - 7th December 2008 Let me put the wonder back into Woolies - My first job was in Woolworths, Shepherd's Bush, west London - 30th November 2008 We are a nation of puritans now, not shopkeepers - 23rd November 2008 Time to shake our civil servants from their feather beds - 16th November 2008 Where can we find Britain's Barack Obama? - 9th November 2008 The BBC is the biggest joke of all. Bring back Brand - 2nd November 2008 Sex on the beat – indecency gets a slap on the wrist - 19th October 2008 Repellent fat cats, resign - Friday was grisly – markets in free fall, TV screens covered with red figures - 12th October 2008 Ingenious Jamie deserves a seat at the high table - I realise that Jamie Oliver's not everyone's cup of tea - 5th October 2008 Oh Sarah, you've just taken a step back for women - Suddenly you can't open a newspaper without seeing a picture of Sarah Brown - 28th September 2008 So, the banks are going under. At least we will always have Damien... - 21st September 2008 No woman is an island, Mrs Palin - John McCain's running mate shares the dangerous tunnel vision of George Bush junior in her avoidance of foreign travel - 14th September 2008 Women have brains as well as babies, and they're going to waste - There is little more job equality than 30 years ago, and the number of female executives is declining. What went wrong? - 7th September 2008 Don't blame Kate. It's the fashionistas who love skinny models - Despite all the hand-wringing, nothing has been done to stop women starving themselves for the catwalk. It's all about money - 31st August 2008 Wake up Gordon and Nick, you've no idea about the cost of living - 24th August 2008 Sugar and spice... why have our little girls turned sour? - Young women are becoming more violent in a bid for 'respect', but it's a lack of female role models, not alcohol, that's to blame - 3rd August 2008 Fat cats of the food industry only want us to eat more and more - The Government is wrong to turn to the giant manufacturers of junk meals for sponsorship of its campaign against obesity - 27th July 2008 Here's one way to reduce knife crime – look the other way - Thoughtful work done quietly at grassroots level will do more to help put wayward youths on track than screeching headlines - 20th July 2008 Equal in the eyes of God? Not in the Church of England - The howls of protest from conservatives that greeted the vote to allow women bishops contradict Christian teaching - 13th July 2008 Privacy is down the YouTube and real friends are history - Teenagers weaned on the instant gratification of the internet do not understand the dangers that lurk in its virtual world - 6th July 2008 A vision that will make slums of what's left of our rural heritage - Ministers can refuse to listen to architects, planners and builders on so-called 'eco towns', but the British public will not be ignored - 29th June 2008 Give lacklustre parents Asbos – not their children - Let's tackle anti-social behaviour with compulsory evening classes in running a home and raising a family - 22nd June 2008 David Davis is the new voice of the people - The maverick Tory is more in tune with popular feeling than 'insiders' think - 15th June 2008 When I was stalked, I got help. Where were the police for Arsema? - The police often think that women who attract a stalker start by encouraging the man. They are wrong, and dangerously so - 8th June 2008 The have-it-all days are over. We're back to austerity and thrift - Hard times are upon us, so we should rediscover the forgotten skills of patching, mending and growing our own vegetables - 25th May 2008 Eco-towns are just vandalism dressed up in a trendy green coat - Who wants new communities when thousands of existing houses stand empty? Even builders agree – government plans are potty - 18th May 2008 We've put the wrong Gordon in charge - While the PM's credibility plummets, the TV chef is the very model of self-belief - 11th May 2008 An army of choosy shoppers could see off greedy retailers - Voters care about life on their own doorsteps – the election results show that – and nothing beats the glow of buying locally - 4th May 2008 The bonkathon for Mayor is an insult to struggling parents - The press rakes over the affairs of Ken, Boris and Brian, but with little of the censure dished out to Shannon's mother Karen - 6th April 2008 Janet Street-Porter vs Boris Johnson - Editor-at-large Janet Street-Porter, born and bred a Londoner, tests the credentials of the Tory candidate for Mayor, Boris Johnson - 30th March 2008 (interview) Let's give our so-called 'feral youth' a break - Demonising anyone under 21 does great harm – after all, the young are our future - 30th March 2008 A Good Friday bet is the oddest way yet to erase child poverty - The Government is big on ideas such as freedom and choice, but these have only pushed the working classes further into debt - 23rd March 2008 Women are rarely welcome in the police chaps' club - Machismo is still the norm in the force, as Michael Todd's case shows. Even in trouble, he was still 'one of the boys' - 16th March 2008 Hillary vs Barack is a thriller. Ken against Boris is just tawdry - In the US, the candidates galvanise and inspire. The contrast with London's mayoral rivals could hardly be more marked - 9th March 2008 Women, you can have it all – just not at the same time - Having a baby at 40 is increasingly the only sensible option for a growing band of educated wealthy southerners - 2nd March 2008 Don't blame the young: we're a nation of boozers - We should look to our own behaviour – not that of teenagers or pop stars – if we are to tackle the alcohol problem - 24th February 2008 Divorce British-style is a messy business - As the circus that is the McCartney-Mills break-up continues, it's almost worth wishing for the simpler, sharia version - 17th February 2008 Young, gifted... and ignored by Radio 4 - The BBC's main spoken word station fails to reflect the diversity of Britain – or even the variety in the white middle class - 10th February 2008 All aboard the MPs' gravy train for a tour of self-serving sleaze - We cannot keep paying our politicians to employ relatives on lavish salaries. Their marital harmony is not our problem - 3rd February 2008 Let adult fatties eat themselves to death. The kids we can save - If the Government really wants to tackle obesity, it should channel all its resources into getting the young fit and healthy - 27th January 2008 A few frocks on a red rug don't make a film industry - The Baftas are coming, but a bit of glitz and glamour can't disguise the fact that British cinema has little to celebrate - 20th January 2008 M&S has its USP – but it's not a value pack of underpants - Marks & Spencer carved out a niche for quality and that's where it's at home, not scrabbling to pile it high and sell it cheap - 13th January 2008 Just blog off. And take your self-promotion and cat flap with you - Whether the ramblings of the socially inept or the musings of the rich and powerful, most cyber-diaries are a feeble waste of time - 6th January 2008

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Articles: 2009 Mixing politics and business turns off voters - Perhaps the PM should take a look at the furore surrounding Silvio Berlusconi - 10th June 'Jeopardy' – television's crack cocaine - I only watched the last 10 minutes of Britain's Got Talent, and even that tiny bit of blood sport made me feel guilty - 3rd June I'd be a lousy MP – and so would Esther - Esther means well, but she's hopelessly under-qualified to enter parliament - 20th May Time to give the rich a dose of reality - Elizabeth Hurley refers to "civilians". We might prefer "them and us". Events of the past few days reinforce the notion that two parallel versions of life co-exist in modern Britain - 13th May At least politics is brightened up by the Berlusconis - It's seconds out in the battle between Silvio Berlusconi and his long-suffering wife Veronica - 6th May I don't want MPs lecturing us - The Tories have appropriated the word "thrift" to describe the way forward - 29th April MPs don't deserve their summer hols - Do you know of any other job that pays as well (£64,700) for so few hours and offers twice as much time off as most workers in the UK get? - 22nd April Why we all need to stop worrying and start talking - We've turned into a nation of worriers - 15th April Very smooth and very sweet but very far from innocent - Smoothie makers just like Coca-Cola - 8th April Public art has become a vile pollutant - We are busy constructing the follies of our age - 1st April We've lost sight of what bravery really means - Is "brave" the most over-used word in the English language? - 25th March Bring back ration books – for booze - We could pay a minimum price, and there would be a thriving black market for those determined to drink to excess - 18th March I'll be relieved when charade ends - Nothing illustrates the patronising attitude of the BBC more graphically than its hijacking of charitable causes - 11th March A good tantrum can be better than diplomacy - anger is now being re-evaluated. A 44-year study by psychiatrists in the US looked at the careers of 800 people, and concluded that anger helped people rise to the top, provided it was expressed in a positive way - 4th March I decided not to eat the sad, rubbery food I was given - A piece bemoaning poor food and service in some British restaurants brought an impassioned response from our readers - 3rd March Why can't I get a decent meal out? - A new kind of cuisine is flourishing – cheap fast food - 25th February It’s older fathers who need morality lessons - I cannot see that one 13-year-old father is proof that we’re morally bankrupt - 18th February Pure delusion... - ... It's an open and shut case - 11th February (See: Suicide police chief's work 'not affected by 38 liaisons') I wanted real news, not pretty pictures - Give the BBC a snowstorm and they seem more concerned with pictures than real information - 4th February What's wrong with the idea of GPs? - It's right that the NHS should look at ways of improving its impact on the environment - 28th January Let's have more real people like Ken - Ken Clarke, like Vince Cable, is a chap totally at ease with himself - 21st January It is potty to lose our true arts heritage - 7th January

Articles: 2008 Seasonal advice you can safely ignore - Can I suggest lying in bed watching repeats of Midsomer Murders? - 30th December 2008 Martin Amis is right about the elderly - Amis reckons the class system has disappeared and been replaced by a rigid hierarchy in which the young will resent being made to pay for the over-60s. Amis predicts a civil war between the generations. Is he joking? - 24th December 2008 How do we stop men feeling inadequate? - We obsess about our appearance and feel inadequate at work, but research proves men feel the same - 10th December 2008 Mother does not always know best - One of the most sensitive subjects for writers is the mother-daughter relationship - 3rd December 2008 This is nothing compared to the 1940s - Christmas has come early for some citizens, according to the Chancellor - 26th November 2008 Mother always knows best? - What damage do you have to inflict on a child – and for how long – to be deemed an unfit mother? - 19th November 2008 I fear 'Healthy Towns' are just another fad - 12th November 2008 Jeremy Clarkson and John Prescott - Two dinosaurs, two outdated world-views - 5th November 2008 Men like Russell Brand thrive in the macho culture of the airwaves - Fines, sackings and investigations can't alter a culture - 29th October 2008 Booker prize snobs have lost the plot - The British publishing industry is the last bastion of true snobbishness - 15th October 2008 The growth industry that is now obesity - 8th October 2008 Forget local TV if you want to know what's happening - 1st October 2008 Gazza's slide into despair shames us all - 24th September 2008 Forget the doom and gloom – this is a golden age for art in Britain - 18th September 2008 A man who is tired of Damien Hirst... - So Robert Hughes thinks Damien Hirst's work is absurd and nothing more than clever marketing - 11th September 2008 Lessons in life are important too - 4th September 2008 Get these fake police officers off our streets - 28th August 2008 Sex tourism blitz is just opportunist - The media circus surrounding Gary Glitter is not only confined to the antics of an ex-rock star pursued by reporters. Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, was obscenely quick off the mark to cash in on what probably seemed like a great PR opportunity - 21st August 2008 I'm innocent. So the police have no right to keep my DNA on file - 31st July 2008 'Healers' on the run – with your money - 24th July 2008 A dignified death at home is a human right - 17th July 2008 Sorry, Sir Stuart, but it's not 'our' M&S - 10th July 2008 Knife crime's real perpetrators: parents - 3rd July 2008 A prima facie case of floundering by Brown - 26th June 2008 A hair-raising price for being too honest - 19th June 2008 If this is 'care', then I hope I'll never need it - 5th June 2008 I could run a railway better than this... - 22nd May 2008 We're ready to rise up against eco-towns - 15th May 2008 Deep in rural England, fresh fields for the BNP - 8th May 2008 So what chance did Karen ever have? - 17th April 2008 Shame on those who ganged up on Harriet - 3rd April 2008 Why should MPs get special treatment? - 27th March 2008 Welcome to Botswana – the sanitised version - 20th March 2008 You've got the wrong target, Margaret - 6th March 2008 But would you want to live in an eco-town? - 28th February 2008 No wonder there are so many sick notes - 21st Febraury 2008 The rich must resolve the paradox of London - 14th February 2008 Hooray for Henry? Not bloody likely... - 7th February 2008 Dignity is the right of every NHS patient - 31st January 2008 Cooking needs time. So does teaching it... - 24th January 2008 Why I hate the beauty business (Or why life's too short to spend £100 on face cream) - Saturday 19th January 2008 There's no big secret about Burrell's flaws - 17th January 2008 No film will reveal the truth about Maddy - 10th January 2008 How can we teach the merits of thrift? - 3rd Jauary 2008

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