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| Friday 16 October 2009 |
‘Welcome to the rohypnol conference’
Emily Hill watched the Tories in Manchester swig fizz, dodge photographers and talk about as little as possible.
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| Thursday 15 October 2009 |
Jane Austen meets Sex and the City
A new BBC adaptation of Emma abandons Austen’s barbed wit in favour of 21st-century dating psychobabble.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Sarah Brown: celebrity wife
Gordon Brown once rejected the politics of celebrity, now his wife hangs out with Paris Hilton.
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| Wednesday 29 July 2009 |
Down with ‘Damon AllBran’
After writing an opera about monkeys, Britpop’s answer to Tim Henman is back with his old chums.
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| Thursday 18 June 2009 |
Peaches: hereditary celebrity
Sir Bob used Africa to puff up his ego - his daughter just falls out of night clubs.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
Using a meatcleaver to kill a moth
A new book on celebrities taking over the world spends so much time taking petty, heat-style potshots at Paris Hilton’s miniature dogs that it forgets to mention Bob Geldof, George Clooney, the Redgraves…
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| Tuesday 12 May 2009 |
James Corden: fat luvvie
Obesity is cool, exotic and iconoclastic – as long as you’re famous rather than poor.
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| Tuesday 21 April 2009 |
The castration of Cheryl Cole
The Geordie blubberer is set fair to take over Princess Di’s conspicuous compassion job, if all personality isn’t ironed out of her first.
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| Friday 13 February 2009 |
E certainly doesn’t stand for ‘evidence’
The UK government’s insistence on classing Ecstasy alongside heroin exposes the limits to its ‘evidence-based’ approach.
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| Friday 19 December 2008 |
Lily Allen is not my home girl
Only grey-haired music-press bores and Boris Johnson think this daughter of privilege is the spokesperson for my generation.
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| Friday 24 October 2008 |
Geriatrics Do It Better
Ignore the prudish old feminists who slam Madonna for still wearing a leotard and dry-humping Justin Timberlake in her fifties. The woman is wily, committed and scarily muscular: the Ayn Rand of pop.
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| Monday 29 September 2008 |
A conference postcard: ‘Wish I weren’t here’
A reporter for the Londoner’s Diary tried to stay awake at the Miserabilist And Miliband Show at the Labour conference.
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| Monday 21 April 2008 |
An epidemic of ‘emotional bulimia’
Now even gruff John Prescott has joined the ranks of public figures who vomit up their private woes in the press.
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| Thursday 17 April 2008 |
Who killed Glastonbury?
Maybe ticket sales are down, not because of Jay-Z, but because this music fest has become a dayout for geriatrics and poshos.
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| Thursday 27 December 2007 |
Amy Winehouse: the anti-Diana of 2007
In our era of bland, rehabilitated celebrities, let’s give thanks for the diva with the beetle-black beehive who put the naughty into the Noughties.
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| Friday 21 December 2007 |
Lunching with the doyen
of ‘loser lit’
Toby Young, journalist, author and soon-to-be subject of a Hollywood movie, poses as a hapless failure. ‘Is it all an act?’, asks Emily Hill over a £5 platter of Indian food.
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| Friday 21 December 2007 |
Carry on Commando
James Delingpole’s Coward on the Beach, the first novel of 10 detailing the exploits of Second World War hero Dick Coward, will have you gripped with its knowingly posh derring-do.
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| Tuesday 4 December 2007 |
Still forty metres of junk
Mark Wallinger’s Turner Prize-winning recreation of Brian Haw’s anti-war protest was hailed as brave political art. But it wasn’t political and it wasn’t art.
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| Wednesday 21 November 2007 |
Banality, insecurity, snobbery?
The UK government's idea to create a 'national statement', or even a motto, about being British has been met with derision - and class hatred.
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| Wednesday 14 November 2007 |
Burning down the house
The Arsonists at London's Royal Court Theatre is a firecracker of a play, and provides the sparks for serious debate on nihilism and its apologists.
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