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The grunting. The sinister parent/coach/jailor lurking in the background. The ever more creative attempts to design an eye catching outfit whist restricted to ‘white’ and ‘must be able to play tennis in it’. Wimbledon is here again, and if you don’t care about tennis there’s still plenty to enjoy. Tennis […]
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(This morning I wrote a piece about the Spice Girls, then Grace Dent wrote a piece about the Spice Girls for the Independent. So this may now be considered my response, offering a generationally different perspective.) I have a deep and profound love for the Spice Girls. Their remarkable debut album, ’Spice’ (which I have […]
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Albert Marquet, 1905 Let’s talk about self love I am a massive wanker. I wank when I’m hungover. I wank when I’m at home alone in the middle of the afternoon and don’t have time for a nap. I’ve wanked at friends’ houses, if I’ve been staying over and no-one’s around. […]
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We googled ‘single woman’ and got this picture As much as I love the catty joy I get from a good giggle at the front pages of the latest glossies, there comes a time when a girl has got to look at what the media is trying to project onto her and […]
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L’origine du monde, Courbet, 1866 Today I went to my local hospital to get a smear test done. The process is this: you go into the room, then you perch awkwardly on a chair while the doctor interrogates you about your various bodily functions and irresponsible lifestyle. Then you take your pants off, get on […]
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You know what makes me cry tears of bile and want to run though the Daily Mail newsroom with a starving Alsatian? This enduring bloody myth that women should be each others’ best friends because they’ve all experienced uterine outpourings. If you haven’t already seen the pictures of the BET awards, the one that’s been […]
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“These men love their hobbies … almost as much as their girlfriends!” Are your sides splitting yet? According to July’s issue of Company magazine, the equation for summer this year is a ‘girl’, plus a ‘boy’, plus … a motorbike! A surfboard! A mountain bike! But guess who owns that motorbike, that surfboard, […]
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