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Comedians are no laughing matter today | Barbara Ellen

When did British comedians get so whiney? It's getting difficult to open a newspaper without coming across a comedian feeling "oppressed" by the "culture of fear", especially at the BBC, wailing about being censored, poor them, boo-hoo! As comedy is ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Comment Is Free,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: BBC,  Russell Brand,  Jonathan Ross,  Ben Elton,  Jimmy Carr

It's about time we gave nurses a degree of respect

Sarah Brown should be suspicious of people gushing about how "fabulous" she looked in her outfit for the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year awards. The fuss around Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 leads to the question: is there really such a thing ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Brown,  Cherie Blair

That's enough slap and tickle, Sir Nick

I have a blurred memory from many years ago of molestation at work. Dragged unwillingly into a stationery cupboard, alcohol fumes everywhere, a couple of minutes of tussling, then falling out, possibly sprawling on to the carpet. But I think he was OK ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Comment Is Free,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sir Nicholas Winterton,  Natascha Engel,  Kerry McCarthy,  Twitter Inc,  Boris Johnson

If parents lie, whose fault is that, Mr Balls?

Does Ed Balls lie quaking in his bed at night, realising that many otherwise sane and reasonable parents would cheerfully boil him in tar if they thought it would get their child into a decent school? Does our schools secretary look at the recent sharp ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Comment Is Free,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Sam Taylor-Wood,  Ed Balls,  Lily Allen,  Ashton Kutcher,  Jay Jopling

Leona Lewis: "I'm no pushover!"

Does Leona Lewis ever get fed up with being viewed as some kind of "anti-Amy Winehouse"? Maybe it is because they both attended the performing arts BRIT school in Croydon, but it seems, especially in Britain, Lewis and Winehouse are forever linked in ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Leona Lewis,  Amy Winehouse,  Nelson Mandela,  Led Zeppelin (musician),  Clive Davis

Pack children off to school asap

No one could argue that the Cambridge Primary Review, the biggest report on primary schools for over 40 years, isn't a weighty-looking document. Six years to complete, 600 pages long, one of its main arguments is that British children are starting ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Naomi Campbell,  Equality and Human Rights Commission,  Lara Stone,  Billie Holiday

A heartbroken father shows us how to protest

Interesting that one of the most powerful actions of the week turned out to be a non-action. Peter Brierley – father of Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley, one of the first to die in Iraq, at St Paul's to commemorate soldiers and personnel killed in the ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Comment Is Free,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Tony Blair,  Matt Lucas,  Rowan Williams,  Bono

Vanessa George case shows armchair paedophiles are just as guilty

Researchers at the University of California have discovered that flirting with an attractive member of the opposite sex gives men a noticeable boost of feel-good hormones, cortisol and testosterone, contributing to overall wellbeing. The conclusion ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Comment Is Free,  3 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Chris Morris,  Chris Langham,  Daniel Craig,  Hugh Jackman

The year the girls grew up on screen

In 2003, Catharine Hardwicke's Thirteen was the film nervous parents, like myself, didn't want their young daughters to see, lest it gave them "ideas". Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed starring as delinquent teenage girls, barely in whispering distance ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Evan Rachel Wood,  Nikki Reed,  Mariah Carey,  Lone Scherfig

Little wonder Katie Price won't name her rapist

If even the revelation that she'd been raped couldn't do it, one wonders if there is any situation that could lead to people feeling sympathy for Katie Price? Or is the mood against her so far gone that a plane could fall out of the sky, right on top ...

From BARBARA ELLEN, Comment Is Free,  19 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Matthew Wright,  Audrey Hepburn,  Jonathan Ross,  Lionel Shriver,  Marilyn Manson

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