How Tara Palmer-Tomkinson defined the 90s
The original ‘IT girl’, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was the poster-child for the wild debauchery of the 1990s. Tanned, toned and sporting shoes that cost more than the average mortal’s monthly salary, she encapsulated my fantasies of adult hedonism like no other. Splashed across the tabloids on a weekly basis, she became almost as high-profile as...
Marriage. How old is too old?
It’s been a politically charged week to say the least. The Tories are revelling in their victory, promising to abolish The Human Rights Act, reintroduce entertaining methods of animal cruelty and stop those scrounging disabled bastards from leeching the salaries of Eton-educated self-made millionaires. The increasingly anguished left have taken to Twitter in umbrage, as though...
How justice failed Reeva
Oscar Pistorious killed his girlfriend. Except he didn’t just kill ‘his girlfriend’, did he? He killed Reeva Steenkamp, an independent, successful woman, whose name barely gets a passing mention in the articles concerning her death. Reeva was a South African model who supported her family through her career. She took part in awareness campaigns on...
Is misogyny back in fashion?
Hairless vaginas used to belong to pre-pubescent girls and those preparing for invasive gynaecological surgery. But these days it’s become a socially expected norm for young women to wander round with their nethers plucked like a pre stuffed Christmas Turkey. Scores of women will claim this World War 3 style attack on body hair or desire...
