"Why are first dates so painful?"
First date – the very phrase is like a cut throat.
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"Why I'm pro-choice… and pro-life"
What subject makes women angrier – or sadder – than abortion?
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"Dictators make terrible fashion choices"
The spectacle of Colonel Gaddafi’s giant gold mermaid thing (and it had no name but thing) made me muse on the…
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"Why we get the films we deserve"
I have the same taste in movies as a 12-year-old boy cinematically; there are no depths I will not plunge. I love…
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"He is the groom but he is, poor soul, a…
Now I am engaged to be married, people ask me about my wedding. “Will you have a big wedding?” they ask,…
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"Why is so much junk thrown at politicians?"
Louise Mensch is not my favourite person. She is a female Tory MP, which means she smiles at David Cameron a lot,…
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"Can fat girls and thin girls ever be friends?"
A few columns back I wrote about Playboy Bunnies, and said I hoped they’d be suppressed like Dickens &…
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"It is time for the era of celebrity to die"
I have a confession! I have eaten celebrity culture. I have read big pieces on Simon Cowell, Beyoncé and I even,…
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"Does anyone want to be a mother?"
Does a woman really want to be a slave to little people? What I mean, of course, is – does anyone want to be a…
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"I behave badly on mini-breaks"
I’ve done the Paris mini-break, which used to be called a dirty weekend before Bridget Jones sanitised the whole…
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"We're going to need a bigger flat"
Three months ago I met a man. He is a stand-up comedian and he is handsome in a wonky way, although he has a…
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"Why we need to banish the bunnies"
Twenty years after Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club closed it re-opened last week in London’s Mayfair with a big PR…
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"Why the chav label is still repellent"
It’s a strange land in which Baroness Hussein-Ece, a Liberal Democrat peer and member of the Equality and Human…
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"Have you witnessed a Twitterstorm?"
Last week, Twitter revealed the name of the footballer who has been trying to keep his private life private. It…
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"You can't ask for justice politely"
Why can’t men discuss rape without falling down a well? Kenneth Clarke, who is usually one of the more human…
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