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15th Aug journalism

70th Anniversary of VJ Day

Today’s 70th Anniversary of VJ Day is not simply a historical milestone, but the last commemoration…

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1st Feb journalism

How to write good, realistic dialogue

Dialogue is what happens when two or more characters talk to each other. We’ve all read novels in…

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4th Nov journalism

More on The Forgotten Women of the War in the East

I’ve always had a fascination for the Pacific War. It began at 8, when I learned that my parents’…

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11th Dec journalism

RIP Woolies

Where do you think David Cameron bought his Christmas wrapping paper this year?His wife's Bond…

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11th Apr journalism

A warm and witty novel with a clever twist on Shakespeare

Wolff is everything journalists love. She's bubbly, hysterical, totally radio-ready and always with…

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23rd Mar journalism

How did the real hero of the anti-slavery movement get airbrushed out of history?

On one of his many investigative visits to Liverpool, then the world's largest slave ship port,…

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4th Apr journalism

Botox Ballot Box

Observations on illusions I'm sitting in the Wimpole Street surgery of Jean-Louis Sebagh - the…

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24th Jul journalism

The writing at the ball

'PEOPLE these days expect a lot more for their money than dinner, a disco and a raffle,' said Judy…

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13th Mar journalism

Incomparable Chocolate Mousse

Celebrity square meals #28: Isabel Wolff's 'Incomparable Chocolate Mousse' Serves 6My mother cut…

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2nd Mar journalism

In defence of romance

Imagine you are playing one of those word association games and someone says "romantic novelist".…

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7th Nov journalism

Queen of Sofadom

THAT IS absolutely brilliant,' breathes Anne Diamond excitedly as she inspects Keith from Essex's…

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14th Jul journalism

Praising Chick Lit

"I read your last book," a female acquaintance confided at a party recently. "Really?" I said…

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20th Aug journalism

How we Met: Vitali Vitaliev & Clive James

Vitali Vitaliev, 41, was born in the Ukraine. His articles in Krokodil, the satirical magazine,…

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17th Dec journalism

How we Met: Kathy Lette & Spike Milligan

KATHY LETTE: Spike Milligan was my first great love. I was about 15, and while all the other girls…

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17th Sep journalism

How we Met: Ross Benson & Ingrid Seward

Ross Benson was educated at Gordonstoun. He joined the Daily Mail in 1967. Since 1973, he has…

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2nd Jul journalism

How we met - Cynthia Payne & Screaming Lord Sutch

Cynthia Payne, 64, was born in Bognor. In 1980, she served four months in prison for running a…

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2nd Jul journalism

How we met - Quentin Crisp & Donald Carroll

Quentin Crisp, born in 1908, went to art school, but never earned his living as a painter. After a…

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18th Jun journalism

How we Met: Uzi Mahnaimi & Bassam Abu-Sharif

Uzi Mahnaimi, 42, was born in Tel Aviv. Formerly in Israeli military intelligence, for whom he…

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4th Jun journalism

Harold Wilson would have drowned but for us

EVERYONE is supposed to get 15 minutes of fame, and I've had mine. In 1973 the spotlight of…

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29th Jan journalism

Warning off the office beast

What's the difference between an exuberantly over-sexed dog, and an office executive who offends…

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11th Dec journalism

Real Life: Greetings from Club Dead Seances are out, mediumship awareness workshops are in

DOWN A LONG, winding country lane, a mere ouija board's throw from Stansted airport, the Arthur…

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12th Jun journalism

My lunch at Daphne's

''GLYNDEBOURNE was heavenly,' intoned the elegantly dressed fortysomething woman seated at the…

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12th Jun journalism

Aaaah... ylang ylang

'YOU'RE a lavenderish sort of person,' announced my aromatherapist, Amanda Jones, triumphantly.…

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22nd May journalism

Who's the prat in the white tuxedo?

'INSIDE the entrance of the Rock Circus in Piccadilly, London, foreign students throng in their…

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8th May journalism

Goodbye Che, hello Claudia

ATHENA, whose glossy posters of Che Guevara and a tennis-playing girl scratching her bottom adorned…

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20th Mar journalism

What Bienvenida's husband wrote to me

'I FIND you utterly captivating, enchanting, intelligent, practical, determined, overwhelmingly…

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19th Dec journalism

Real Life: A girl who still has everything

'WHAT DO you like about Barbie?' I asked seven-year-old Sara Thorp from Lancashire. We were…

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12th Dec journalism

Don't ask why, just put a lid on it

''SO THERE we all were, in Lisa's semi in Chingford; Bev and Liz and Elaine and Lisa and Kate and…

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5th Dec journalism

Adultery: don't do it

WIVES AND mothers, as we all know, are saints. The embodiment of goodness, love and self-sacrifice,…