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Why not dress up for Sex and the City?

Since I wrote earlier in the week in the main site about my day out watching Sex and the City with three of my good friends - we donned our prom dresses and went out for cocktails to celebrate - I've had a lot of correspondence from men who appear to ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008

Disaster cap-it-all-ism

The media have given unprecedented coverage to disasters in Burma and China: humanitarianism or the old 'scoop' mentality? Last night News at Ten devoted nearly 14 minutes of its bulletin to the Chinese earthquake. The night before, the BBC late ...

From GLENDA COOPER, Comment Is Free,  20 May 2008

Diamonds are a man's best friend

So I read with interest today the new report that says that men are the new Lorelei Lees. According to Scottish Widows having an XY chromosome actually makes you more likely to be a gold-digger than your female counterpart. Perhaps this should come as ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  9 May 2008

Interesting times

We will have to wait until at least Friday to hear the results But as I walked to cast my vote this morning, I suddenly remembered that it is now more than a month since the election was held in Zimbabwe, with no end of the stalemate there in site. ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  1 May 2008

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Attempting to cycle home (sudden rain and cold wind, hair descending into soggy curls; make-up streaming down face) the question what would you do if given the chance to step out of your life for a day sprang to mind. A new film based on a British book ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  29 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Frances McDormand,  Amy Adams

Why is asda be Carla

Still all those pale into insignificance compared to the next one. I would personally like to salute Ed Watson, spokesman for Asda, a man worth every penny of his PR salary for coming up with the unlikely story of the week. On revealing the sad news ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  23 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy,  Coleen McLoughlin,  Silvio Berlusconi,  Mara Carfagna

In praise of Nessa Jenkins

Enough I say of Carla Bruni telling us all how she reads Shakespearean sonnets, Coleen McLoughlin dressing up as Audrey Hepburn, or Madonna contorting herself in corsets to blow out the candles on her 50th birthday cake: who can we be really focusing ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  17 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Ruth Jones,  Carla Bruni-Sarkozy,  Madonna,  Audrey Hepburn,  Coleen McLoughlin

Me and my mobile phone

My name is Glenda Cooper and I am nomophobic. One of thirteen million Britons apparently who suffers extreme reaction to being . Moving house, breaking up with a partner or organising a family Christmas is apparently a cinch compared to the cold sweat ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  31 Mar 2008

The fifth Beatle: an old-style mystery

The news that the ‘Fifth Beatle’ Neil Aspinall (a passing thought, just how many fifth Beatles have there been – Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best, Brian Epstein) has died without ever telling his story made me feel uplifted. Neil Aspinall, second from left, ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  25 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Neil Aspinall,  Pete Best,  The Beatles,  Brian Epstein,  Hunter Davies

Sackcloth and Ashes

Don’t expect to see me wearing anything other than black this week; not in mourning for the demise of the 100% mortgage; rather this Thursday sees the last in the series of Ashes to Ashes, the sequel to Life on Mars. John Simm (left) and Philip ...

From GLENDA COOPER, The Telegraph,  24 Mar 2008
Related Topics: John Simm

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