Proud to be British
Sunder Katwala, of Indian-Irish heritage, analyses the whiteness of the Remain vote, seeing Britain’s pro-European movement as a case of cosmopolitanism without diversity
The sad truth about Phillip Schofield
You hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over professions in the near future – and I think television…
This coronation is making me a republican again
I was never a monarchist. One of my earliest memories is of being a bolshy little girl refusing to stand…
Blairite ‘nepo babies’ are the worst of the lot
When the singer Lily Allen found herself flak-catching recently, she was quick to point out she was the OK kind…
Self-obsession will be the death of music
Though I’m not the most avid fan of her oeuvre, I was cheered recently to see that Ellie Goulding wanted…
The Guardian has wrecked itself
It’s so strange now to think that I spent several happy years as a Guardian columnist, the only billet from…
The ignorance of Gary Lineker
When I was a girl, footballers had a somewhat limited vocabulary. That wasn’t to say that they were seen as…
Dirty work
How did modern sex become so unsexy?
Nicola Bulley and the shame of the TikTok ghouls
Ghoul – ‘a person morbidly interested in death or disaster’ – is such a descriptive word. There are a lot…
Why I’m glad to see the back of Nicola Sturgeon
I see Scotland as the brain of the UK, with Wales as the soul and Northern Ireland as the heart.…
From babe to matriarch
Even the serious abuse she suffered as a small child and a teenager is described without a trace of self-pity
We are living through a golden age of misogyny
I hope I’ll be forgiven for not dropping my dog-eared copy of The Female Eunuch in sheer molten awe upon reading in…
Why I’m sceptical of the ADHD epidemic
Just a quick plea to those who know me; if you’re going to burst upon me with a revelation, make…
Last orders
The sad decline of drunkenness
The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern
Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…
The ghastliness of Vivienne Westwood
Seeing the swathe of superlatives wheeled out about Vivienne Westwood after her death last year at the age of 81,…
Prince Harry’s book is a gift to the world
And still it keeps on coming. We had barely absorbed the first wave of revelations – jewellery mashed, dog bowls…
The trouble with Prince Harry
The promotional clip trailing Prince Harry’s upcoming interview – which has kicked off the publicity trail for his forthcoming memoir Spare –…
Why I’m giving up on diehard Remainers
What’s your New Year’s resolution? Eat less, move more? Or perhaps you’re a contrary cuss aiming to eat more and…
Nothing will ever be good enough for Harry and Meghan
Imagine you’ve paid good money to see a French farce – and halfway through, it turns into a Greek tragedy.…
The holy sinner
There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that…
Harry and Meghan want to destroy the House of Windsor
When I coined the phrase ‘The Grabdication’ in The Spectator two years ago, I had no concept of exactly how grasping the Duke and Duchess…
Balenciaga and fashion’s child sexualisation problem
For a long time now, high fashion – with the alibi of being ‘art’ – has tried on rape, self-harm, heroin-chic…
The empty Englishness of Love Actually
One of the pleasures of fiction, be it book or film, is that it can take us to actual places…
How Marks & Spencer spoiled Christmas
Working in a charity shop, where the Christmas cards go out in July, means I’m more aware than most how…
