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Thursday October 16, 2008
Religious leaders who argue that inoculating 12 and 13-year-olds against HPV will make them promiscuous are dead wrong
Jamie’s Ministry of Food is all about reinforcing TV's most cherished stereotype: the working-class Neanderthal
Trinny and Susannah can do what they like, but woe betide any Kerry Katona or Jade Goody who makes a public gaffe
Apathy is underrated, as anyone who has had to sit through a holiday bore's sightseeing checklist will tell you
Why assume that a fortune spent in school fees should glad-hand you all the way to Oxbridge?
Women are their own worst enemies
Nothing happens quickly enough for us anymore - wanting to accelerate every human experience is the sickness of the age
It's not that women should always stay quiet and never take revenge, it's just that sometimes it smacks less of female empowerment and...
It inverts economic logic not to charge big people more for their clothes
When we scrape a win against Andorra, you'd think it was 1966 again
Internet airlines avoid verbal communication like most people avoid flashers
Without the media attention that many celebrities claim to despise, they wilt like neglected begonias
Sod the snobs, Wayne - at least you earned your cash. You're an advert for the rewards of determination and graft
The tyranny of mouthy prudes must stop
Ageism is the only 'ism' you can get away with these days. Just ask poor John McCain

Carol Midgley joined The Times in 1996 and is a feature writer and columnist. Her times2 column appears on Thursdays and her bargainhunter column in the Times Magazine on Saturdays. She won Feature Writer of the Year in 2004.
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