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The one woman Dave must listen to

04.10.11
Who could blame David Cameron if he retreated to an old leather armchair at White's and sighed, in the manner of Professor Higgins: "Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so decent, such regular chaps why can't a woman be a chum?"... more

Put the kettle on, girlfriend, and let's get down to some woolly thinking

05.09.11
In cafés and bars all over town, hip young knitters are celebrating the start of Wool Week. Karen Dacre joins the rush... more

Mrs Gary Lineker signs up as a Calendar Girl

25.10.10
Lingerie model and television presenter Danielle Bux is to make her stage debut in the farewell tour of the hit show Calendar Girls... more

Beware the wrath of Middle England mothers, Dave

06.10.10
Mr Cameron’s turn in the conference spotlight may be seriously compromised by the child benefits backlash... more

Sisters are doing it for themselves

14.06.10
Enough of white male dominance. London’s professional women are supporting each other via female networking clubs, says Liz Hoggard.... more

Good, bad and ugly — how local papers are reporting the election

28.04.10
Media Analysis: A trawl around local papers in central London suggests their journalists are rarely reporting live from the election hustings - and some journalism has just been naïve... more

Master Chef will change Dhruv Baker's life

08.04.10
MasterChef champion Dhruv Baker tells Nick Curtis how he hopes winning the cook-off will turn his dream of owning a restaurant into reality,... more

Phil Brown 'extremely sad' to be sacked by struggling Hull

15.03.10
Manager axed by Hull after a controversial week for the struggling Premier League side... more

Phil Brown apologises to Women's Institute after Hull brawl

12.03.10
Hull manager has apologised for the 'unsavoury' public bust-up between Jimmy Bullard and Nick Barmby... more

Who wouldn’t want to dress like Lady Gaga?

18.02.10
London Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow. Everything is nicely organised to the nth degree, apart from one significant thing. How best to honour the life of Alexander McQueen? ... more

Charlie Dimmock bares all for Calendar Girls role

06.01.10
Famously braless garden guru Charlie Dimmock is to go a step further - by baring all on stage for Calendar Girls... more

Coach horror: Driver saved us from worse injuries, say passengers

23.12.09
Two women were killed and 47 people injured when their coach careered off a road after a trip to see a village’s Christmas lights... more

Sushi, cocktails and male escorts... the Women's Institute, inner-city style

30.10.09
They might make sushi instead of jam, and their guest speakers are more risqué than the average local historian - but this is still the WI... more

Why women have to make it on their own

20.10.09
Rather like women's football, the "female Davos" women's economic forum in Deauville has gone widely unnoticed... more

Don't lay food waste at the supermarkets’ door

12.08.09
So apparently it's the supermarkets' fault again: the Government's new food strategy, published this week, is highly critical of “buy one, get one free” offers... more

Jerry Hall strips for stage date with Calendar Girls

19.06.09
Jerry Hall is set to bare all in the stage show version of Calendar Girls. ... more

Jeremy Deller: The avant gardener

19.05.09
He's best known for staging a re-enactment of the battle that defined the 1984 miners' strike - so why is Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller putting up scarecrows outside the new Louis Vuitton store at Westfield?... more

The rise of baking

22.04.09
Making your own sponge is all the rage. And it’s a piece of cake, finds Nick Curtis... more

Make a date with the Calendar Girls

15.04.09
Calendar Girls is a chance to enjoy displays of prudery, coyness and vulgarity, a mixed cocktail of character-traits that remains forever English.... more

War Horse leads the charge as West End shows sell £5million tickets in advance

17.03.09
A peculiar triumvirate of Waiting For Godot, Calendar Girls and War Horse is heading a storming start to the year in West End theatre with almost £5million in advance ticket sales... more

The Goldsmiths girls who want to jam with the W.I.

13.03.09
One prides itself on the freedom to experiment, thinking differently and individuality. The other represents a slice of the solid values of middle England - a slice of jam sponge, that is... more

Laura Ashley founder Sir Bernard dies at 82

17.02.09
Sir Bernard Ashley, who helped found the fashion firm that carried his wife Laura's name, has died aged 82... more

Beating the recession is a piece of cake

12.12.08
Last weekend I baked a Christmas cake, something I'd been meaning to do for 20 years... more

Tonight's W.I. lecture: brothels of the world

28.07.08
It's a long way from jam-making and knitting - two members of the Women's Institute have just returned from a tour searching for the world's best brothel... more

Watchdog smells rats - but can't catch them

01.07.08
In his classic 1940 book Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, Fred Schwed Jr takes on the follies of Wall Street in a way never bettered since. By his telling, Wall Street is a kindergarten full of incurable romantics, children who really believe all that guff they spout even as it is being proven spectacularly wrong... more

Great Queen Street is simply the best

23.06.08
Great Queen Street offers the best food, the best value and the best service. Book a table there before it becomes the hottest place in town, says Mark Bolland.... more

Ready for the festival season?

14.03.08
With little to choose between the line-ups, it's the added extras that will count at this year's festivals. David Smyth guides you through the best summer festivals.... more

Fabulous faces

21.05.07
Dulwich Gallery has scored a coup with its new show of artists' self portraits from the Uffizi's sublime collection, says Brian Sewell.... more

Jam and Jerusalem in Renaissance Italy

09.10.06
Women's Institute stalwarts and devotees of car-boot sales will flock to the V&A's new exhibition of Renaissance home life. The sane man, sceptical, may be less enchanted, says Brian Sewell.... more


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