The Guardian:
Column name:
Remit/Info: Culture, Media, Society
Section: Guardian Weekend
Role: Columist
Pen-name:
Email: lucy.mangan@guardian.co.uk
Website: Lucy Mangan's weekend column
Commissioning editor:
Day published: Saturday
Regularity: Weekly
Column format:
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Articles:
- Lay off the catchphrase. It's fandabidozi! - The popular catchphrase repeated ad infinitum to the exasperation of adults is a childhood tradition - 1st April 2009
- A brave attempt to make sci-fi less geeky - The US cable channel Sci Fi is changing its name to Syfy. Good luck. You're going to need it - 18th March 2009
- Just what have we learned from TV's social experiments? - With Channel 4's new TV show Boys and Girls Alone about to begin, it seems a good time to gather all the pearls of wisdom reality TV has scattered before us - 11th February 2009
- Emergency! ER's dying - After 15 years of dizzying camerawork, frenetic action, baffling jargon and glamorous doctors, ER is finally closing its doors - 7th Januaary 2009
- Sweet and easy to digest - Creators of Wallace and Gromit, Aardman animations, latest film is a government commission to fight obesity - 2nd January 2009
- Tinsel and telly - What's big on the box? Lucy Mangan on her Christmas television childhood highs and lows - 24th December 2008
- Carol's out for the count - but her fans will never forget her - Neither consonants nor Countdown will be the same without her - 11th December 2008
- Dangerous liaisons - As most teenage girls in Britain will already know, Twilight - a tale of love between a young woman and a vampire - has now been made into a movie. It will no doubt be a huge hit. But what a shame it's not more like Buffy - 4th December 2008
- Home economics - All that "eat within a year" stuff is nonsense. Even with food poisoning, you're still saving money - 22nd November 2008
- Yes minister, no minister ... anything you say minister - Shortcuts - 18th November 2008
- I'm a card-carrying sceptic - Jacqui Smith is either an liar or unable to notice she is being accosted by neurotic racists - 15th November 2008
- Iron awe - I am having to look with narrowed eyes at my own home, trying to work out if it or anything therein could be reconfigured as an asset - 25th October 2008
- Five steps to happiness - Kick up leaves! Chat to strangers! Spatchcock a chicken! Lucy Mangan tries out the latest advice on how to keep misery at bay - 23rd October 2008
- Arrested development - If God made man in his own image, he is a fat bloke with his feet up watching Sky+ - 18th October 2008
- Every breath I take ... - I have been unable to breathe since May, and am starting to find it annoying - 11th October 2008
- For better or worse -For six months, I have been performing profoundly unnatural acts of organisation, pecuniary disbursement and decision-making, and I think I have at last done enough to ensure that some vague semblance of a wedding-shaped event can take place - 27th September 2008
- Let them eat (carrot) cake - 20th September 2008
- Every little helps - Tesco is changing the traditional, ungrammatical signs at its express tills - 13th September 2008
- Corrie: the unlikely Cambridge University storyline revealed - Shortcuts - 3rd September 2008
- Age concerns - So, the boomers have finally won, have they? - 30th August 2008
- Divided we stand, united we'd fall - Bloody Tories. Even when they're not in power they do nowt but cause trouble - 23rd August 2008
- How utterly, splendidly ripping - Enid Blyton has been voted Britain's best- loved writer - 20th August 2008
- These so-called Games are less than sporting - Gone are the days when a man could put down his cigarette, brush the crumpet crumbs from his front and break the four-minute mile in a manner that even the octogenarian in charge of the clockwork stopwatch could measure - 16th August 2008
- Life is a British beach - 9th August 2008
- The ship that floats my boat - I am increasingly finding that navigating safe passage through life is entirely dependent on matters of scale - 2nd August 2008
- Another ad pulled - but was anyone offended? - 30th July 2008
- Ride high on a donkey - I have just received another press release from the Financial Services Authority - 26th July 2008
- The joy of New Napkins - 19th July 2008
- There's trouble in store, believe you me - Forget the fuel protests across Europe, and the food riots in Mexico - Marks & Spencer has been hit - 13th July 2008
- Your Majesty, one has been short-changed - By my calculations, the royal family owes us each a 22p refund - 5th July 2008
- Welcome to Manganland - I have tried to declare my own patch of south-east London an independent principality for years - 28th June 2008
- The bells, the bells... - 21st June 2008
- Why is Dad potty about potatoes? - 14th June 2008
- Hay! You! Get off of my cloud - 7th June 2008
- Charlatans beware - 31st May 2008
- Sex and the pity - 24th May 2008
- Planned retreat - 17th May 2008
- With the best will in the world - 10th May 2008
- Confused? You will be - 3rd May 2008
- Catford: a tribute (yes, really) - 26th April 2008
- Preparing for a marriage of two minds - 19th April 2008
- Digging for victory - 12th April 2008h
- Doom with a view - 5th April 2008
- The Family Challenge - 29th March 2008
- Things I've never done before: My first flight - 8th March 2008
- Antisocial behaviour disorder - 8th March 2008
- Wedding hells - 23rd February 2008
- Before and after: the new trend in workout DVDs - 2nd January 2008
- 2008 - the year I'm gonna get cultured - 29th December 2007
- Keep it in the family - 22nd December 2007
- Objecting to the objectors - 15th December 2007
- On the gift of giving - 8th December 2007
- Speculation on accumulation - 1st December 2007
- Riding for a fall - 24th November 2007
- An appreciation of a token - 17th November 2007
- Graveyard schooling - 10th November 2007
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