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Charlotte Gill

Feminism’s obsession with equality sells women short

Charlotte Gill 30 August 2017 11:50

There was much fanfare last week when Holly Willoughby’s apparent ‘huge £200k pay rise’ meant she’d finally be earning the same as her…

If it takes a credit card to live like Kim Kardashian, then so be it

Charlotte Gill 24 August 2017 14:47

Recent figures around the UK’s credit and debit card debt are startling indeed, with the number of transactions rising to…

Forget the ‘nasty party’, Theresa May has turned the Tories into the zombie party

Charlotte Gill 15 April 2017 12:00

Watching Education Secretary Justine Greening discuss grammar schools this week, I felt exasperated and in desperate need of a cognac. And…

The last thing Brexit needs is support from an ageing Sex Pistol

Charlotte Gill 28 March 2017 15:55

John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten, the former Sex Pistols front man –  has voiced support for Brexit, and some seem…

Emma Watson’s ‘have your cake and eat it’ feminism is hard to swallow

Charlotte Gill 2 March 2017 11:29

There’s a real whiff of hypocrisy about Emma Watson’s latest shoot for Vanity Fair, in which she poses semi-nude. Women’s magazines…

PETA’s Warhammer ban reveals the hypocrisy of its fake fur policy

Charlotte Gill 2 February 2017 11:50

There are lots of problems with Warhammer fans. Bad haircuts, terrible dress sense, to name just two. These aren’t even stereotypes; as…

Britain’s spy agencies could do with a woman’s touch

Charlotte Gill 21 January 2017 10:30

I always knew security agencies were missing a trick with the ladies. Currently, less than four in ten workers in…

Christmas carols and the sorry state of British singing

Charlotte Gill 24 December 2016 11:30

At my local carol concert this week, I couldn’t help but despair at the state of the singing. It was just…

The fashion world had no moral compass – until Melania Trump came along

Charlotte Gill 7 December 2016 11:38

Will someone please dress Melania Trump? She looks like something out of The Only Way is Essex in those tight-fitting,…

The animal rights revolution is coming

Charlotte Gill 30 November 2016 16:14

Some will scoff when I say that we are in the first wave of an animal rights movement which will…

Forget ‘soft’ feminism. I want my feminism ‘hard’

Charlotte Gill 6 November 2016 9:00

Can you be a Disney princess and the feminist messiah? I wondered this earlier this week, upon seeing new images…

The truth? Most women can’t ‘have it all’

Charlotte Gill 3 November 2016 13:30

Many of my friends are terrified of having babies. It’s the childbirth process that frightens them. And once upon a time…

Young people’s ‘yolo’ spending is a symptom of a much bigger problem

Charlotte Gill 8 September 2016 13:55

‘You’ve got to stop eating those croissants,’ my parents tell me. I know they’re right, but have they seen the croissants?…

Bureaucracy is destroying the fabric of London’s nightlife

Charlotte Gill 7 September 2016 12:01

London’s nightlife is under attack. That became obvious this morning with the news that the popular club Fabric has closed for good. After…

Wedding rings should be kept away from the Olympics

Charlotte Gill 15 August 2016 15:52

I felt rather sorry for Chinese Olympian He Zi yesterday. Having picked up the silver gong in a women’s diving…

Pokémon Go is a symbol of Generation Y’s worst trait

Charlotte Gill 1 August 2016 14:18

Pokémon Go makes me wonder about Generation Y, which will surely be remembered as one of the most childish collectives…

Why Hillary Clinton’s mix of celebrities and politics could backfire

Charlotte Gill 27 July 2016 12:24

Politicians, it seems, aren’t so dissimilar from the rest of us in their obsession with celebrities. Indeed, not even Hillary…

The show’s over for the Women’s Equality Party

Charlotte Gill 20 July 2016 10:34

In the post-Brexit upheaval, the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) has fallen out of sight. Its members once told us ‘WE can,…

These celebrity lectures about Brexit are the absolute pits

Charlotte Gill 14 June 2016 15:31

Is there anything worse than celebrities lecturing us on Brexit? Tourists that walk slowly along Oxford Street, you say, or people…

In defence of baby Cyanide

Charlotte Gill 16 April 2016 10:30

I’ve always been slightly jealous of people with unusual names. It’s the sort of envy that happens when you miss…

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