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Thumbing avidly through Heat magazine recently in a fevered search for the latest on the Cheryl/Liam/Naomi infernal triangle, I was…
View ArticleOur churches aren’t perfect, but if we lose them we will all be worse off
After hearing about the massacre in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, I went to church, happily sang the word God…
View ArticleLabour can’t cope with Boris’s BAME cabinet
I’ve never voted Conservative and I never will. Having been raised in a working-class home, I can’t get past the…
View ArticlePity poor Candace Bushnell, still flogging Sex and the City at 60
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View ArticleWhy is everyone on Facebook so paranoid about their privacy?
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View ArticleThe daring curiosity of Blondie’s Debbie Harry
‘I’ve had a very lucky life,’ says Harry, looking back, aged 74, on a career of fame and fortune — as well as drugs, abuse and depression
View ArticleThe old monster Elton John appears charmingly self-deprecating
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