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- Benefit changes: David Cameron is no longer on the side of single parents - The Tory leader pledged to support single mothers. His party is now wielding the axe against them - 22nd May 2012
- Minimum alcohol pricing? Blame those vomiting girls - Minimum alcohol pricing results from moral panic. It won't affect David Cameron's problem drinkers - 16th May 2012
- The sex industry is repulsive, but it cannot be wished away - Brooke Magnanti looks at porn and prostitution with the eyes of an advocate. Yet she still has some truths to tell - 18th April 2012
- Ricky Gervais, there is no justification for this lazy cruelty - Gervais satirising prejudice against disability? No, in Derek he's just a self-serving hypocrite, feeding bigots their lines - 11th April 2012
- For women in work this is a perfect storm of inequality - For working women these are the worst of times. Whether it's job security, childcare or fair pay, we are going backwards - 3rd April 2012
- Bring on the new SuBo in this Saturday night war of the broken - Call it a God complex or Judy Garland Syndrome, but our hunger for the emotional violence of reality TV is unsated - 27th March 2012
- Sugar addiction is making our children – and Big Food – fat - Smoking and alcohol dangers are known and regulated for. So why are the risks posed by junk food not taken seriously? - 3rd March 2012
- Squatting law will only criminalise the homeless. Let's demolish clause 130 - The million empty homes in Britain are the real scandal, not the squatting of a tiny number of occupied properties - 21st February 2012
- Fashion's real victims - Working in an industry built on child labour and exploitation, it's little wonder models have finally unionised - 14th February 2012
- The Oscars season of self-hatred - As the film awards approach, our fatal attraction to Brad Pitt et al grows, just as interest in their films diminishes - 3rd February 2012
- LSE Nazi games in context - Antisemitic discourse is more acceptable now than at any time since the 1930s. I just can't laugh it off - 17th January 2012
- Of course children are unhappy. They live here too - The Children's Society report that one in 11 kids are not happy isn't surprising. But treating their suffering seperately is pointless - 14th January 2012
- How the lonely death of Joyce Vincent fuels our collective denial - When someone dies alone and unmissed, we label it bizarre in order to avoid the fact that is happens more often than we think - 26th December 2011
- Forget the Queen. This is a diamond jubilee for royal PR - The royal family is embracing the global brand ethos with alacrity (and Catherine's big hair) - 16th December 2011
- I blame the media for ignoring feminism in favour of makeup - Feminism seems so tiny today, so niche, of such little interest to the outside world. And yet it is needed - 29th October 2011
- Why Dubai? The Wembley Plaza Hotel would have been much nicer, Mr Fox - For every piece of human misery that Dubai offers, the emirate has a wondrous piece of leisure to distract you - 15th October 2011
- Beside the horror of recession, something gaudy is stirring ... - While pay for 70% of us is frozen or diminished, FTSE executive earnings were up by a third last year - 8th October 2011
- And would you like a little bit more to tide you over, madam? - Sunday Times Magazine feature: Short-term loans at outrageous interest rates have taken off in Britain as a new wave of lenders attract vulnerable customers - 2nd October 2011
- Carlos Tevez and Prince William: drop the self-pity and do your duty - This is no time to fly your helicopter into the mist Wills and bemoan your gilded fate. If you don't like it, get off the stage - 1st October 2011
- Do Tories really think this is how to woo women back? - Many female voters were initially swayed by the PM's suburban dad act, but the love can't survive the harsh reality - 15th September 2011
- Cameron should embrace his Bullingdon Club self - Why all the denials? The prime minister will be judged on his policies, not on his youthful past - 5th September 2011
- Problem families' do not need an army of Hyacinth Buckets shouting at them - Will those in the Working Families Everywhere scheme just feel more failed after the middle class day-trippers leave? - 27th August 2011
- The right has chosen its scapegoat – the single mum. And she will bleed - The danger of the single woman and the threat she poses to civilisation is an ancient narrative - 20th August 2011
- My kind of Speaker's wife - Sally Bercow is a gobby, fabulous retort to those who confuse marrying a politician with being him - 8th August 2011
- L'Oréal's pulled adverts: This ideal of female beauty is an abomination - The lengths the beauty industry and its ugly sister, the fashion industry, go to sell their products are repellent - 30th July 2011
- Amy Winehouse: Why is there so little understanding of addiction? - As with Judy Garland, so much energy has been given to her death in the public eye and so little to the process that took her there - 25th July 2011
- Yes, smoking kills – but not everyone wants to be saved - Despite knowing each puff takes us closer to the grave, Big Tobacco keeps its nicotine-stained grip on millions of users - 31st May 2011
- Not quite a paedophile' – John Humphrys' strange correction - Debating whether Prince Andrew's friend was a paedophile or not misses the point of exploitation - 8th March 2011
- What can we expect from the Wainwright-Cohen superstar spawn? - The arrival of Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen is perhaps the least sinister kind of genetic engineering I can think of - 23rd February 2011
- Andy Gray: our Jan Moir - Who would ever have guessed that it would be football that struck out for gender equality? - 27th January 2011
- It's not just John Bercow – charm is disappearing from public life. About time too - Whether in the courtly language of Westminster or the honeyed words of Cameron, it conceals a fundamental dishonesty - 15th January 2011
- We’ll keep the red flag flying here - Once again the watering holes of north London are full of champagne socialists, but how well are this new leftie tribe fitting in? - 9th January 2011
- The battle for equal opportunities still needs fighting - Inequality between the sexes is not a big deal any more, a new study tells us. That is only true if you are happy for women to have less than men - 8th January 2011
- Welcome to hell, Romeo Beckham - David and Victoria Beckham's 8-year-old is on GQ's best-dressed men list. Poor little fellow - 5th January 2011
- Go on, treat yourself at the sales - The shoppers who queue for cut-price designer goods are falling for two whopping lies - 30th December 2010
- Royal wedding: The agony of the ecstasy - I'm going to be tried for treason for saying this, but a royal wedding still makes idiots of us Brits - 25th November 2010
- A tale of two tyrannies - It is entirely apt that Naomi Campbell and co are at The Hague. Fashion should be put in the dock - 11th August 2010
- Raoul Moat, this troubled man - David Cameron should realise that, no matter how depraved the crimes, sympathy is normal - 15th July 2010 (Raoul Moat: summary)
- One dark day in Dagenham - Tanya Gold follows Nick Griffin, BNP leader, on the campaign trail against Margaret Hodge - 12th April 2010
- Sport is moronic, but I can love the Winter Olympics - I once skated with Torvill & Dean. They dragged me across the ice like a fingernail on a blackboard - 23rd February 2010
- Witchcraft is the most benign of all the silly religions - Please don't lump witches in with Jedi - 16th February 2010
- Was Gordon Brown right to talk about his daughter's death? - I can't believe it was Gordon Brown's idea to talk about his daughter's death. Did somebody guilt-trip him into it? - 9th February 2010
- Why we need celebrity autobiographies - If we can't hear the voices of celebrities such as Kerry Katona, we will hate them – because we won't understand them - 19th January 2010
- When Tony Blair met Louis Vuitton - So Tony Blair has found his natural home – selling handbags for Louis Vuitton. Well, he always had a soft spot for clothes . . . - 12th January 2010
- The rise of the iPhone generation - They are easy to spot and easy to pity – with a rectangular wound in their hand - 5th January 2010
- Nightmare on New Year's Eve - Every year, I wait for my birthday with a peculiar dread. Why did I have the misfortune to be born on New Year's Eve? - 29th December 2009
- Sorry, Dame Judi, but there's no escape from being a 'national treasure' - Judi Dench may be sobbing at the unfairness of it all. But once you've reached this exalted status, that's it - 15th December 2009
- The role of the star in the movie may be wilting to nothing - I may never have to interview a bouncing narcissist again - 8th December 2009
- Dr Brooke Magnanti says she enjoyed her life as Belle de Jour - Please don't let this distort the grim reality of prostitution - 17th November 2009
- Hollywood should stop making films about our great writers - Bright Star, the new movie about Keats, has ruined him for me. It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last - 10th November
- Good luck, Liz Truss - The row over the Tory candidate is yet another example of how women are trivialised in British politics - 3rd November 2009
- I never bought Michael Jackson as King of Pop - He was an OK singer and a good dancer. Then there's all the other stuff - 27th October 2009
- You can keep your glamour, thanks, Joan Collins - Why can't British women slop around like a shop window of rotting sausages, if that's what we choose? - 20th October 2009
- How on earth do students survive Freshers' Week? - Half a million students have been accepted into British universities this month. Their first battle is to get through their first few days - 13th October 2009
- Ignore the bells and the smells and the lovely Raphaels, the Pope's visit to Britain is nothing to celebrate - Gordon Brown is 'delighted', David Cameron is 'delighted'. I am 'repelled' - 29th September 2009 (see also: Spare me the Catholic bashing by Melanie McDonagh)
- Why women have sex - According to a new book, there are 237 reasons why women have sex. And most of them have little to do with romance or pleasure - 28th September 2009
- Give Liz Jones a break! - Her confessionals highlight the agonies of women. Is that why other women columnists hate her so much? - 22nd September 2009
- The queen of unkindness - When remembering the Queen Mother, let us not overlook her cruelty – both to the 'little people' and her own family - 15th September 2009
- It's time Venice stopped hating tourists - Global warming, not day trippers, is why the city's dying - 8th September 2009
- Swoop, apply lipstick, swoop again - Harriet Harman has been subject to misogynist abuse all week - 8th August 2009
- Tatler's 'most invited' list makes me want to be sick - Any magazine that believes David Cameron, Sarah Brown and Princess Beatrice are among the coolest people in the world has got a very big problem - 20th July 2009
- The wedding list says to me: your input is not required. Kill your imagination. Give us the spoons - Give them to me, squawks my friend, because I am in love - and so I get consumer durables for free. I demand a new kitchen - and you will pay for it! - 10th June 2009
- Not our kind of victim - Always happy to rescue the downtrodden, we recoiled when Susan Boyle broke away - 2nd June 2009
- To understand Amy Winehouse, perhaps we should consider Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea - Does Winehouse's success comfort her? I doubt it; I suspect it taunts her - 6th May 2009
- Why I confess all - My name is Tanya Gold and I am a confessional journalist. Do you want to know why? - 4th May 2009
- Nazi cows, Nazi cats, actors playing depressed Nazis. It's all just Hitler porn and it disgusts me - We seem to have a new kind of Nazi domination - a cultural one. And it turns our eyes from the evils that we should be noticing - 23rd April 2009
- It wasn't singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain's Got Talent so much as our reaction to her - Is Susan Boyle ugly? Or are we? - 16th April 2009
- It may be 20 years since she was last on TV, but Alexis Carrington remains my ultimate role model - Alexis spent the series torturing Blake and his awful wife, to the cheers of women everywhere - 23rd March 2009
- If you are looking for a new year's resolution, try this one: never, ever date a swinger - How did I end up with a swinger? I found him outside a fringe party conference in 2004 - 1st January 2009
- The Whitehall fat police can do their worst. No one is going to get between me and my mini-rolls - 13th November 2008
- Gap-year students are just misery tourists mixing with The Poor because it looks good on Facebook - 6th November 2008
- Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with state-school kids - for its own good - 2nd October 2008
- What's with this Jane Austen fixation? Her women were spirited, yes, but their lives were miserable - 11th September 2008
- Spare me the lectures from celebs - 18th August 2008
- Save me, glossies, save me! - She has always hated women's magazines, but when Tanya Gold read about the writer who changed her life by following their advice, she agreed to try it too - 13th August 2008
- One of Vanity Fair's 'best-dressed' is wearing a jacket that looks like a thrown-up Indian takeaway - Only one accessory relating to royalty interests me: the wicker basket to contain their decapitated heads - 31st July 2008
- David Cameron says alcoholism is a choice - I need to believe that it was my genes telling me to drink - 22nd July 2008
- Judith Chalmers went commando on television - what message was she trying to send her viewers? - 26th June 2008
- Why Wallis Simpson should get her blue plaque - People hated her because she refused to conform to our grotesque 1930s society - 10th June 2008
- So what if Max Mosley played dodgy sex games? Some of those who condemn him should look at their own pasts - 5th June 2008
- Infamy? They've got it - The Carry On films were crass and populated by misfits. And, sadly, they mirrored people's lives - 17th April 2008
- For more and more women, booze offers the only escape - As a recovering alcoholic, I know how our society's constant assault on female self-esteem is creating unprecedented misery - 29th January 2008
- Men want us lobotomised - In speed dating I did a lot better as a simpering, giggly florist than as a dazzlingly literate lawyer - 29th December
- The day the chatshow died - It's farewell, then, to Parkinson, and farewell to a genre killed by the paranoid celebrity PR - 24th December, 2007
- The heroines' heroine - Mills & Boon woman is no drippy pushover. Mess with her and you get your arms blown off - 8th December, 2007
- Better eat a banana - The bad sex awards remind us that for even the most gifted writers, celibacy is the best policy - 13th October 13, 2007
- The world has had enough - It wasn't feminism, terrorism or the end of the cold war that finally did for James Bond. It was Austin Powers - 24th January, 2005
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