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Sex, scandals and parties: 300 years of life on planet Tatler

08.10.09
Tatler may be an ageing grande dame at 300 years old but she is as relevant today as she has always been... more

How the Tories were Googled?

09.07.09
Strategy supremo Steve Hilton and internet queen Rachel Whetstone are the power couple in David Cameron’s court. But can their web of influence reach a new generation of voters?... more

Sibling rivalry has made me what I am

18.02.09
I can tell that my third, and youngest child (girl, nearly two) is a natural born leader... more

I’m the root of all evil – a working mother

04.02.09
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)... more

High fashion strikes gold in the East

28.01.09
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... more

Like the rug says - keep calm and carry on

21.01.09
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 ... more

Third runway for toffs: that idea won’t fly

14.01.09
Amid the fury of the row over Heathrow expansion, the environmental debate gets increasingly eccentric... more

In this cold, it pays to live like a Russian

07.01.09
As I write this I am sitting in the office in Kensington in my ski jacket... more

Polish that estuary accent - class war is back

17.12.08
BBC presenters come and go but none with quite such scrutiny and debate as the Today programme's Ed Stourton... more

When the chips are down, everyone's a spiv

10.12.08
Robin Ellis, "London's poshest builder", has gone bust. It's no surprise - the man almost defined pre-crunch excess... more

The Ramsay show - the best panto in town

25.11.08
Last weekend Gordon Ramsay was disporting himself all over the papers... more

But women are your friends, Dame Helen

18.11.08
However magnificent Dame Helen Mirren, 63, may look in a bikini, she seems to let herself down when she starts talking without a script... more

It's official: mothers are the cleverest

14.10.08
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.... more

Thanks to Westfield, I’m in love again

07.10.08
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... more

Give your little despot a lazy summer

22.07.08
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... more

A cheap but not cheerful Primark moment

24.06.08
Last night BBC's Panorama showed children making clothes for Primark, reminding us that those prices are too good to be true - Indian children being even more cost-effective than their beloved "economies of scale" - and also of the power of investigative journalism.... more

If there's a fly in your soup, say so - nicely

17.06.08
According to a survey by food festival Taste of London, the British don't like complaining in restaurants... more

Working mothers are still in the doghouse

16.06.08
I think the managing editor of this paper would take a dim view if I tried to claim childcare on expenses but then he wouldn't be very happy if I stung him for half of John Lewis's kitchen department either.... more

Princess-in-waiting isn't a real job, Kate

06.06.08
Six tiaras for £2.25, a pink, blue or lilac ballgown for £39.99 and a cardboard Princess stagecoach lunch box (the drink goes where the carriage is, the sandwiches where the footman sat) ...... more

Princess-in-waiting isn't a real job, Kate

03.06.08
Six tiaras for £2.25, a pink, blue or lilac ballgown for £39.99 and a cardboard Princess stagecoach lunch box (the drink goes where the carriage is, the sandwiches where the footman sat) ... These discount Princess wares are available at the Middleton parents' exhaustive party accessory website, Party Pieces.... more

Hot pants - they're such a bad career move

27.05.08
Anyone who comes for a job interview at ES magazine is scrutinised. How well do they know the magazine? Are they articulate, full of ideas, plucky under pressure? I have begun to fancy myself as an interview pro; perceptive, with rigorous standards.... more

Steer clear of tanned, touchy-feely types

29.04.08
Carole Caplin, a one-time topless model, was befriended by an exhausted Cherie Blair so that she could realign her chakras and facilitate discounts with obscure designers.... more

No more shoes - I've cut up my credit card

22.04.08
Apparently the country is full of people with a middle-class lifestyle and a working-class income, according to a new report: their school fees, big-label clothes and holidays are fuelled by credit cards, loans and mortgages.... more

Mothers aren't on Superwoman's planet

15.04.08
Superwoman Nicola Horlick gave an interview to this paper yesterday and lived up to her name. She has built up her own asset management company but it's her powers of organising her family that are truly awesome.... more

Gran, you've been sidelined by a book

08.04.08
A new report on parenting ? even the use of the word as a verb makes many wince ? declares that the mothers of modern mothers are secretly appalled by their daughters.... more

Skiving at home: a must for working couples

01.04.08
The Northern Irish are trying to make skiving off at home a crime. A proposed Bill of Rights says that if you don't do your part, you are breaching your partner's constitutional rights.... more

My council makes mincemeat of butcher Syd

11.03.08
Syd, our local Armenian butcher, sells high-quality, good-value meat to chefs like Skye Gyngell and Simon Hopkinson, the local council estate and the groomed mothers of Brook Green. But on Saturday, he is packing up his unpretentious shop after 34 years, having failed to agree a sale price for it from Hammersmith and Fulham council.... more

A child's best friend is a pushy parent

04.03.08
Today more than half a million children receive the outcome of their secondary school applications.... more

Read my lips: my child's mush stays organic

26.02.08
How scientists love to tell us how stupid we are. This week, hot on the heels of Delia Smith's antiorganic comments, BBC2's Horizon is telling us that there is "little evidence" that non-organic foods are harmful. Well, Horizon, I don't care. ... more

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