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Barbara EllenThe Guardian |
Rejoice, for Kate Bush has risen again. Heart-popping excitement (my own, and maybe yours too) greeted the musician’s surprise appearance last week...
How instructive to see the actor Amanda Abbington give an interview to Newsnight . It followed the BBC report in which it apologised to her, upholding...
Give the Princess of Wales her due, she got our full attention with that video. Posted on Instagram to mark the completion of chemotherapy to treat...
There are many parenting styles for teenagers, but sometimes it feels like there are just two: cool and uncool. Often, cool, liberal parents are...
I know what you’re thinking: “Whatever happened to sexy tyre calendars? I really miss those.” You’re in luck. The 2025 Pirelli calendar has...
Body shaming – it wouldn’t be a British summer without it. It’s that time of year when you can’t move for media images of famous people,...
Are female empowerment initiatives in danger of becoming a tad pat and lazy? I ask, because of the mammoth backlash against the lingerie company...
Something strange is happening to men’s shorts. They’re no longer shorts, rather they’re short-shorts. Last week, Normal People actor Paul...
Last week sometimes felt like standing in the midst of a triumphant hosiery and condiment-themed ticker-tape parade. I’m referring to the deluge of...
How important are you? So important that only other important people are permitted to speak to you? So eminent your hair must be snipped in...
Hollywood producer Carol Baum has publicly derided Euphoria ’s Sydney Sweeney. Interviewed onstage following a screening of her 1988 film, Dead...
The reviews are in for the trailer for the imminent Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black . Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, it stars Marisa Abela as...
Are young people, especially creatives, as excited about London, as driven to live in it, as people like me once were? The answer appears to be a very...
I’m talking about music festivals. I can’t abide them and never could, even when I was a fresh-faced goth, with crimped hair, a tummy full of...
Paloma Faith does her best to keep it real. The singer-songwriter’s new album, The Glorification Of Sadness, is about break-up struggles. Her 2021...
Has childhood been cancelled? Or rebranded as first-stage “old”; a last-chance saloon for preventive skincare? Inspired by social media,...
Who’s in the mood to throw a pity party for Oscar Pistorius? Anyone? Or, like me, do you find his crime so disturbing it rather sticks in the craw...
As 2024 looms into view, let’s do a mental exercise. What happened the last time you were hungry? In the mental picture you’re conjuring, are you...
In its defence of the civil court action brought by Prince Harry, Mirror Group Newspapers argued to the death that there was not a shred of evidence...
Before we fully enter the festive season, succumbing to the sweet rustling embrace of mistletoe and Quality Street, please could we consider the good...
Whatever else might be said about Prince Harry, he got to pull the sword from the stone. He got his day in court, his longed-for legal vindication,...
Is Taylor Swift pop music’s last great troublemaker? Or has it always been the done thing for the Time magazine person of the year to use their...