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Friday July 10, 2009
Of all the clichés about the British the only one that remains absolutely irrefutably true is the one about the weather
Jackson's death wasn’t so much to do with The Day the Music Died as with The Death of Our Youth
The easiest, most lucrative option left for the well-educated, tutored adolescents is to become tutors themselves
Last time I looked, Australia was not quite at the forefront of earnest liberalism
If you want to be famous, you must have no heart and no brain, otherwise you're walking wounded
Insults about men are a clever shorthand way of communicating with women and of making them like you
Bosoms are nice. But they’re a bore, too. Imagine the fuss men would make if clothing were designed to display the testicles
How antediluvian our approach to women in the public eye is, and will, sadly, continue to remain
Do we really need to know the ins and outs of celebrity divorce cases and custody proceedings?
What is in their diet that is causing so many small children to have such serious dental problems?
Having a job gives you dignity, a sense of purpose, something to get up for in the mornings
Is it too much to hope that men falsely accused of rape remain anonymous until proven guilty?
I love the idea of panic-stricken members of the public freaking out because they’ve been snapped groping their neighbour or weeing on a hedge
It is neither the Home Office’s nor the police’s job to monitor people’s intimate relationships
Your parents feed and clothe you, the state educates you, and the rest is there for the taking
A shy young classicist led her team to victory in University Challenge, only to be derided as smug
Men eat and have sex and then worry about it; women preen and resent, and don't especially like themselves for it
Anonymous online commenting means that the public’s disinhibition is out of control in some quarters
Whatever you may think of her, Goody is a woman of 27, with two small children, who probably doesn’t have long to live
The film’s greatest achievement is in combining a social conscience with pure entertainment
India Knight was born in 1965. She lives in London with her three children, writes a weekly column for The Sunday Times, and a weblog, Isn't She Talking Yet?, on bringing up a child with special needs. She has also written two novels, My Life on a Plate and Don't You Want Me?
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