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| Thursday 18 November 2010 |
Someone hand me a commemorative sickbag
Spare us the carnival of naffness that is the marriage of Wills and Kate and let’s cut the royal line instead.
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| Tuesday 26 October 2010 |
Something about this smoking confession stinks
Desperate to appear cooler than the office-supplies manager he fundamentally is, Nick Clegg has outed himself as a Smoker.
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| Wednesday 20 October 2010 |
Campaigning to keep Joan voluptuous
Womankind won’t spiral into depression just because Christina Hendricks from Mad Men is going on a diet.
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| Thursday 14 October 2010 |
The sad decline of
la femme fantastique
Proposing an online register of ‘rapists’ is the maddest thing Germaine Greer’s done since she puked on Big Brother.
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| Friday 8 October 2010 |
Turning celebrity breakdown into art
I'm Still Here documents Joaquin Phoenix’s journey from Hollywood star to obese, beardy rapper. Or is he just messing with us?
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| Monday 27 September 2010 |
In the Milibore era, pity the poor satirists
With Cameron, Clegg and Ed running the show, political dramatists and comedians face tough times ahead.
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| Friday 27 August 2010 |
The word of the Lord
The trouble with Lord Mandelson’s autobiography is that the thing he tries to paint as tragedy – the thwarting of his and Tony’s big plans – is enjoyed by most sane people as comedy.
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| Wednesday 4 August 2010 |
No, Gisele, breast is not always best
The supermodel’s call for a law forcing mums to breastfeed takes ‘militant lactivism’ to its crazy conclusion.
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| Tuesday 13 July 2010 |
It’s time to cut this purposeless prince
While the UK tightens its collective belt, why must we put up with Charles, a useless, unelected feudal throwback?
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| Tuesday 8 June 2010 |
Two Thunderbirds versus Colonel Blinky
The Labour leadership contest between Ed and David Miliband and Ed Balls is personality politics with no personality.
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| Tuesday 18 May 2010 |
Money, money, money...it isn’t funny
The BBC’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s classic 1984 novel has none of the book’s zing, insight or fast satire.
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| Wednesday 5 May 2010 |
You can’t blame Brown for everything
There are two problems with Brown-bashing: it’s immature and it’s making Emily Hill feel sorry for the PM.
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| Wednesday 24 March 2010 |
Politics is clearly in trouble and strife
The leaders’ wives – Serious Sarah, Sexy Sam, Anonymous Miriam – are taking the politics of personality to a new low.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
The pub bore of British letters
Martin Amis’s complaint that he is treated badly by the British press is bizarre. Even his painfully bad new novel The Pregnant Widow – full of tits, Islam and pseudo-poetry – has been slavishly well-received.
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| Monday 22 February 2010 |
In defence of ballsy WAGs
Money has always been a prime reason for marriage, so why are working-class women who wed wealthy footballers seen as vulgar?
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| Friday 12 February 2010 |
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
Everyone’s surprised that Gordon Brown will reportedly cry on TV, yet New Labourites have been blubbing publicly for years.
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| Thursday 21 January 2010 |
Straw the Younger vs King Tony of Islington
Will Straw’s tantrums about Blair’s betrayal of his father confirm New Labour’s descent into mafia-style infighting.
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| Tuesday 22 December 2009 |
All hail Frances Bean Cobain
How one celebrity offspring has managed to avoid the trap of trading off her parents' fame.
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| Tuesday 8 December 2009 |
In defence of Katie Price
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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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