the Guardian columns - 2001
Citycide: "The government is full of these people; people who once had real feelings, real ideas about social justice, but who withered inside... "06 jan 2001 Citycide
11 jan 2001 Never mind the gap
13 jan 2001 Blair would probably end up appointing a Depression Tsar (from Scotland's Wigtown)
18 jan 2001 When women finger other women as man-haters, they are lesbians
20 jan 2001 Gender bending
27 jan 2001 Mid-Atlantic rift
03 feb 2001 Saying no to good advice
10 feb 2001 Give me some truth
17 feb 2001 No bed of roses
24 feb 2001 The trouble with Vanessa...
07 mar 2001 Just say cheesy
14 mar 2001 So bad it's good
17 mar 2001 Why do we care what Eminem says?
24 mar 2001 The bear facts
31 mar 2001 Leaving home alone
"If you can't smoke, take drugs, drink and fornicate when you're young, when can you? Things will never slide off you so easily again."07 apr 2001 The dry-humping of commerce lubricated by the slime of sentiment
12 apr 2001 In praise of the quickie
14 apr 2001 ...when you start comparing Britain with other countries
21 apr 2001 From pillock to post
28 apr 2001 The grape divide
05 may 2001 A nasty taste in the mouth
19 may 2001 Sticks and a stone
26 may 2001 The new work ethic? It sucks
02 jun 2001 The naked truth
23 jun 2001 Out with the new
30 jun 2001 Time, gentlemen, please
"Only three sorts of people actually like their work: ponces who don't do proper jobs; heroes, who do life and death jobs; and people who find their home lives so appalling that the workplace is a sanctuary. Anyone else is a liar. Or, even worse, they really do like it. "07 jul 2001 How soon they forget
27 jul 2001 Low down and dirty
28 jul 2001 After the flood
04 aug 2001 Losing a grip on reality
11 aug 2001 Grin and bear it
16 aug 2001 Get a life
18 aug 2001 Some people will believe anything (on Islamaphobia)
25 aug 2001 The immaterial girl
01 sept 2001 Farewell, my lovely
08 sept 2001 Best laid plans?
08 sept 2001 The university of life (review of Lorna Sage's Moments of Truth)
22 sept 2001 Thinking the wurst
22 sept 2001 All the pretty songs (review of the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier than Heaven)
29 sept 2001 Scent of a single woman
Of human bondage: "I can't help feeling that the continuing determination of many women to cohabit with men who are clearly not equally interested in doing so is not a sign of maturity but rather one of insecurity and childishness. "06 oct 2001 Press the right buttons
13 oct 2001 Seen not heard
20 oct 2001 Out of the rubble (on the war against the Taliban)
27 oct 2001 Of human bondage
03 nov 2001 Sex and the pity
10 nov 2001 TV's Pop Idols sashay on and I am hooked
17 nov 2001 Ode to joy
19 nov 2001 Quality drama?
24 nov 2001 Stars in their own eyes
01 dec 2001 The pleasure principle
08 dec 2001 Fame is the name of the game
15 dec 2001 I'll drink to that
29 dec 2001 Love thy neighbour