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Full name: Rebecca Tyrrel
Area of interest: Culture and Society
Journals/Organisation: The Independent
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Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/rebecca-tyrrel
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Career: Former Sunday Telegraph magazine executive editor, Sunday Telegraph columnist and theatre critic
Current position/role: Columnist
- also writes/written for: Financial Times (Theatre, literature)
Other roles/Main role: Writer on Private Eye’s ‘Polly Filler’ column (source: Press Gazette, 29th May 2007) see: Newspaper parodies
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Awards/Honours: British Press Awards Columnist of the Year, 1999
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Other: Married to Matthew Norman
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The Independent:
Column name: Days Like These
Remit/Info: Close observations on family life, see: A column less ordinary - The Daily Telegraph, 18th August 2003
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Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/rebecca-tyrrel
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Day published: Monday
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- What do you tell your children if they ask whether your job is safe? - 2nd February 2009
- 'Everybody hates us. And if we met ourselves at a party, we'd hate us, too' - 22nd December 2008
- 'I identified the sound of Matthew's head banging against the steering wheel' - 15th December 2008
- 'I led the shaken driver in for tea and told Matthew to tread carefully...' - 8th December 2008
- 'Matthew can't watch "I'm A Celebrity..." on the grounds of Kilroy-Silk' - 24th November 2008
- 'Esther Rantzen, I said, and the knife slipped into Matthew's thumb' - 17th November 2008
- 'Now that Obama's been elected, there is a giant hole in Matthew's life' - 10th November 2008
- The polls, the polls... Matthew is begging us to make it all go away - 3rd November 2008
- 'Dermot Murnaghan has vanished from Eggheads. This is a job for Interpol' - 20th October 2008
- 'Our credit got crunched, so the takeaway sag aloo is banned until 2119' - 13th October 2008
- 'Phew! The pole dancing isn't at our cottage, it's down at Fanny's Bottom' - 6th October 2008
- 'For Matthew, a log is not just a log. It's something that must be nurtured' - 29th September 2008
- 'In a fencing mask, cricket pads and pink Marigolds, Matthew sat waiting to bash the rodent...' - 22nd September 2008
- Pete Murray spoke fondly, Stewpot did his Crackerjack routine – and Matthew yearned to see DLT' - 15th September 2008
- Surely I would remember having an interview? Media Studies teacher is a responsible, proper job' - 8th September 2008
- No Esther Rantzen sniggering at rudely shaped vegetables now... - 2nd September 2008
- 'It's a JFK/Diana moment in our home. Yes, Carol Vorderman has departed from Countdown' - 18th August 2008
- Matthew swore that he would never again board an aeroplane. So why did he insist we go to Greece? - 11th August 2008
- If your husband has locked himself in the car, in terror of a wasps' nest, that's when onlookers will gather - 21st July 2008
- For his village debut, Matthew is expecting a grand welcome, with bunting, balloons and a hog roast - 14th July 2008
- Never before has Matthew had such easy access to Waitrose. He thinks it's changed his life - 7th July 2008
- To keep Mish and Miles under control, Matthew drew up new guidelines, a tortoise apartheid - 30th June 2008
- wasn't at all sure that Mish was consenting, but now with this fresh, French, Jeremy business... - 23rd June 2008
- We can't have Diddy David Hamilton in a car with a table wedged in it, can we? No, we certainly cannot - 16th June 2008
- Matthew's obsession with the internet has turned him into a creature from mythology: half-man, half-laptop - 9th June 2008
- The cottage feels homely, and will be even more so when Matthew arrives and turns on a TV in every room - 26th May 2008
- It wasn't easy to decipher the questions because the fencing helmet, worn throughout, acted as a voice muffler - 19th May 2008
- Matthew has always had such a deep love for bluebells. If you want to turn his head, just mention a bluebell - 12th May 2008
- I ask Matthew why he's wearing a black yarmulke. He says he doesn't have a black armband and is mourning his treadmill - 5th May 2008
- Politics is the only thing that Matthew and I have never argued over... Until I decided to vote for Brian Paddick - 28th April 2008
- It was a damp, chilly afternoon and yet Matthew was garbed in swimwear. What was going on? - 21st April 2008
- The shock of seeing Martin Clunes in a Devon pub was too much. Matthew went into full Celebrity Alert Mode - 14th April 2008
- The tea party, for Matthew, issomething that comes straight from the set of a Merchant Ivory film - 31st March 2008
- Matthew started speaking Yiddish, something he does when I mention my Welsh Protestant background - 24th March 2008
- On the rare occasions that Matthew has been on the treadmill, it is at half the pace of an arthritic tortoise - 17th March 2008
- 'I braced myself for the barrage of reflexive pronouns characteristic of the modern call centre... - 10th March 2008
- Matthew loves Richard Griffiths, and has decided not just to worship his idol, but also to behave like him - 3rd March 2008
- It turns out that we cannot actuallyafford to hire a cleaning lady, andit's entirely Barack Obama's fault - 25th February 2008
- While we all love to see Farzan, Matthew loves his visits especially, because of the bickering that ensues - 11th February 2008
- The new gentility is bugging Matthew. He never admitted it, but he enjoyed living in the eye of a criminal storm - 4th February 2008
- Why I had decanted antifreeze into an Evian bottle I can't recall, but it wasn't to kill Matthew - 28th January 2008
- In bed by 7pm, we read, watch movies, and discuss how soon we can go into a home for the elderly - 21st January 2008
- Matthew is not at his best. He is a stupendously unstoical sufferer from Seasonal Affective Disorder - 14th January 2008
- Matthew proclaimed that finding a Nintendo Wii was a greater miracle than the Virgin Birth - 7th January 2008
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Remit/Info: Celebrity culture and personality (column ended 2006)
Section: Comment
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