"A Homeless Christmas": Less Than Merry

If admitted misanthrope Liz Jones can overcome her aversion to the homeless to learn the true spirit of Christmas, can't we do the same?

If admitted misanthrope Liz Jones can overcome her aversion to the homeless to learn the true spirit of Christmas, can't we do the same?

Quentin Tarantino's long awaited so-called "masterpiece" Inglourious Basterds opened today at Cannes, and although reviews of the film are varied, most seem to agree that it isn't his best work.
As promised, the text of my email to a Guardian writer responding to her questions. (I was not able to get to them all.) Like Jess McCabe at the F-Word, I wasn't pleased.
Over at the Guardian, Annalisa Barbieri addresses a reader question: "what should we call our daughter's genitals?"
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert recently gave the Guardian the kind of interview that is a lesson in the dangers of, well, interviews... coming off as entitled, ditsy, and bizarrely lacking in self-awareness.
Kira Cochrane of the Guardian is a rare breed of diet blogger: she pretty much thinks she looks fine, so she doesn't really feel like dieting. In previous columns, she's eaten muffins and "graciously refused" to work out with a medicine ball. This week, she planned to diet, but didn't. Kind of sounds like our lives. […
The Guardian's Sunday magazine, the Observer, devoted almost every article this past weekend to the state of feminism in Britain, and the picture they paint is pretty bleak. The lead essay, by 39-year-old Rachel Cooke, claims that the gains made by earlier feminists are quickly losing ground. "Are we going backwards?…
For decades, a secret stash of Victorian books languished in the Cambridge University library tower, and naturally, students thought they were filled with high-grade bonnet-wearing scat porn. Well, librarians, bolstered by a million-dollar grant, finally sorted through those dusty tomes, and though the books were from…
Responding to yesterday's article about The British Fashion Council's creation of a "Model Health Inquiry", writer Zoe Williams weighs in with some choice thoughts of her own, namely, that models are already amply protected by law and that any attempt to regulate their treatment at the hands of evil-minded fashion…
Poor models! In response to the uproar over their alarmingly emaciated physiques, the catwalkers are about to have working regulations imposed on them (and their employers) by the British Fashion Council. Lady Kingsmill, chairwoman of the Council's Model Health Inquiry, had some interesting things to say to today's …
England is so full of frigid, uptight, misinformed men and women that London has had to open an "academy for sex and relationships". Called Amora, the museum-cum-exhibit-cum-sex school (Hee! We said "cum"!) is said to offer Britons everything from a resident sex therapist to crash-courses on lovemaking techniques,…
We're not really into the whole aggressive self-acceptance thing, which is why we are much abashed to declare that we effing adore talk-show host Tyra Banks, who was profiled in yesterday's Guardian:
[Emphasis ours]According to The Guardian hips may be hip again this spring when tulip shaped skirts show up in stores. Not likely this trend will take off since women have been taming their curves for generations, but if you're tempted, proceed with caution. Tulip skirts, like last season's balloon skirts, are not for everyone.…