The plight of women in Labour
We’re told not to judge books by their covers, but faced with these two it’s hard not to. Harman’s is…
Diary
More than 20 years ago, I left my fast life in London for a rather more relaxed one in Brighton…
Diary
More than 20 years ago, I left my fast life in London for a rather more relaxed one in Brighton…
The plight of women in Labour
We’re told not to judge books by their covers, but faced with these two it’s hard not to. Harman’s is…
Falling out with Love
Volcanic fallings out within bands are an ever-recurring motif in the history of rock music. There’s an obvious reason for…
Get over it!
As someone who managed to move from enfant terrible to grande dame without ever being a proper grown-up, I must…
So much for education, education, education
‘Your old man’s barking!’ I remember hissing indignantly at my then best friend Toby Young way back in the 1980s…
Feminists for Brexit
Britain is trapped in a bad marriage with the EU. It’s time to leave
Brighton’s gone Brideshead
My town is overrun with drunken Mileses and Gileses and Violets these days. Cross these oafish students at your peril
France: #ToutsAuBistrot!
Julie Burchill hymns the joys of post-attack Paris
Chrissie Hynde writes like an angel on angel dust
‘The day I found out that Suzi Quatro wasn’t a dyke was the worst day of my life!’ a teenage…
Celebrity lives
I learned from this little lot that if one has read The Diary of a Nobody, then one can derive…
Summer’s end
Hedonism, tragedy and me
Mirror, mirror
The uglier the man, the more he demeans women
A walk on the mild side
Novels set in the music business (from blockbuster to coming-of-age) are few and far between — far less than in…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Tel Aviv
Just so you don’t get it confused with the City That Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv — my favovurite place on…
Reality check
Why I had to say no to Celebrity Big Brother
Barbados
Unusually, I didn’t leave the British Isles until I was 35, when I went to the Maldives for a fortnight.…
Barbados
Unusually, I didn’t leave the British Isles until I was 35, when I went to the Maldives for a fortnight.…
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho…
Work is a funny old thing — a four-letter word to some, the meaning of life to others. There have…
Fat chance
Why I am not dieting. Ever
A quiet revolution
What I discovered on a silent retreat
The absolute pits
Looking at the brightly coloured front cover of this book, I felt cheerful; turning it over and seeing the word…
Singles match
The rise of ‘living apart together’ – and why I’ve stopped doing it
