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I can tell that my third, and youngest child (girl, nearly two) is a natural born leader
Read full article...This week, I feel rather got at. According to Jonathon Porritt, by having a third child I have contributed to the destruction of the planet (even though this tiny person wears hand-me-downs and eats leftovers)
ES Magazine's spies at the couture shows in Paris report that the atmosphere is "febrile" and that new clients are jostling with each other for the best seats
Before Christmas, a striking rug was featured in ES Magazine: "Keep Calm and Carry On", it read. Something about its clean typography and modest yet powerful message struck a chord
Amid the fury of the row over Heathrow expansion, the environmental debate gets increasingly eccentric
As I write this I am sitting in the office in Kensington in my ski jacket
BBC presenters come and go but none with quite such scrutiny and debate as the Today programme's Ed Stourton
Robin Ellis, "London's poshest builder", has gone bust. It's no surprise - the man almost defined pre-crunch excess
Last weekend Gordon Ramsay was disporting himself all over the papers
However magnificent Dame Helen Mirren, 63, may look in a bikini, she seems to let herself down when she starts talking without a script
It seems that lately the male/female divide is stronger than ever
What killjoys grown-ups can be - half of parents surveyed by the professional killjoy association, the Children's Safety Education Foundation, say they won't be allowing their children to trick or treat this Hallowe'en
The financial crisis, economic meltdown, credit crunch plus, or whatever we call it has almost imperceptibly changed our view of some universal truths that once seemed rock solid. We've all already acknowledged that climate change and the terrorist threat seem a little less pressing. So, in the interests of updating our inner lexicon, I thought it might help to examine some other newly unfixed positions.
A splendid neuroscientist from Virginia has come up with a refreshingly positive theory researched on rats and primates, but let's not split hairs that after a wobbly patch of pregnancy head, mothers do in fact have supercharged brains, for life.
I have a guilty secret: I am a mall lover. I'm not even that fussy. When I lived in W2, Whiteley's was the object of my affections, even though it has a ropey past (this was before Café Anglais and Food Inc) and half the shops were empty, or discount suitcase emporiums. That didn't stop me drifting round the floors for hours in a daze
A new theatre of war has opened up in politics: the battle for Toddler Time
Earlier this week a pack of eager fashion hounds, buyers, breathless students and general camp hangers-on trotted their way around the Serpentine, guided by pouting Lily Allen lookalikes clutching red balloons showing us all the way to the Luella show
Isn't it exhausting being a working mother?
It’s the winning, not the taking part. That can be the only message from the hysterical reaction to our success in China
When my five-year-old daughter asked her tennis instructor, Rocco, to come on holiday with us so that she could have constant tutoring, I actually started thinking about how it might work
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