Interview: Lorraine Candy on being the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine’If it’s some sycophantic twaddle it’s not going in,” says the editor-in-chief of Elle, Lorraine Candy, explaining the rigorous standards she requires for interviews. “You’re paying £3.60 [a copy]. Why would you want some rehashed crap from a round-table interview? We have to have one to [...]
1. The promotion is open to residents of the UK and Ireland aged 16 and over, excluding employees of Guardian News & Media Limited (“GNM”).2. To enter, email your photo to in.pictures@guardian.co.uk.3. One entry allowed per person.4. The theme for this week is Clean (to appear 13 February). The closing date for entries is Tuesday [...]
Lost in Showbiz is preposterously late in bringing this to you, owing to a huge oversight bythe person employed to attend all significant news conferences in Ukraine. Rest assured, this operative has now been fired, and we are once again all over events in each and every former Soviet republic.Without further delay, then, know this: [...]
I feel insecure and rejectedAt the start of our two-year relationship, my partner wanted sex all the time. I was battling with an eating disorder, so didn’t always feel the same way. We had sex regularly and it was mostly great, although I do find it painful more often than not. Now, the tables [...]
The author of The New Feminism talks about challenging the resurgence of sexism in her new book, Living Dolls – and not being an angry feministI’m trying to establish just how often the feminist writer Natasha Walter gets angry. Is she ever in a rage before breakfast? “Rarely,” she says. Does she ever rant [...]
Everyone started assuming that Tiger Woods had joined a rehab center as there were reports of his pictures being leaked out. The photographs were of some other person resembling Tiger Woods, wearing same clothing, jewelry and Stanford hat.
Months of Zen meditation turned my life aroundPeople like to think that monastic life is serene, but boring; they’re wrong on both counts. A year ago, after losing the love of my life I fled to live with celibate monks. The man hadn’t even died – just slept with someone else. Yet for [...]