Chancellor urged to stick to debt reduction plans
The OECD has backed George Osborne's plan to reduce debt, but warns that the economy will stagnate.The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has been advised by the Organisation of Economic...
View ArticleWhere have all the protest songs gone?
There was a time when we didn't recoil when the music got political.I recently got back from End of the Road festival, a fairly small, boutique-y gathering of beardy Guardian readers down in Dorset....
View ArticleUBS hit by rogue trader
A UBS worker has been arrested on suspicion of fraud.A man has been arrested in London on suspicion of a rogue trading incident that has cost bank UBS around $2 billion.The City of London Police...
View ArticleWhy the birds are angry
Listen up, Glenn Beck: Angry Birds is a socialist analogyLate one night, while hurling animated birds at a fortress containing smug little green pigs, I began to wonder if "Angry Birds" - the smart...
View ArticleLez Miserable: "Ooh, look at that one - it's got veins!"
Meet our new columnist, Eleanor Margolis, as she takes a frank, funny and cynical tour through life as a twentysomething lesbian. In her first piece, her vibrator bites the dust, and her mother is keen...
View ArticleLez Miserable: "I'm more Byron Burger than Lord Byron. Is that why I can't...
Meet our new columnist, Eleanor Margolis, as she takes a frank, funny and cynical tour through life as a twentysomething lesbian. In her second piece, she describes what it's like to fancy women who...
View ArticleLez Miserable: “Straight girls, please stop flirting with me. Now.”
Join our newest columnist, Eleanor Margolis, as she takes a frank, funny and cynical tour through life as a twentysomething lesbian. This week, she painstakingly explains to straight girls why she...
View ArticleLez Miserable: “You’re very pretty. Have you ever had sex with an American...
During a sojourn in New York, Eleanor visits the most densely populated lesbian space she’s ever encountered. I’ve never liked the phrase “carpe diem”. It’s regularly deployed to make me do things I...
View ArticleLez Miserable: “Everyone's coming out, including Hillary Clinton and Snoop Lion”
While it’s great to have Hillary and Snoop on board the equal marriage bandwagon, Eleanor can’t help feeling they care a little bit too much about vote-chasing and record sales to be celebrated as true...
View ArticleTop ten stupid questions people ask lesbians
If you’re a woman who fancies women, I guarantee you will have rolled your eyes at some of these idiotic queries. 1. Would you sleep with a man if he was really, really hot?I can appreciate an...
View ArticleJustin Bieber is a glorified Furby. Why do we expect him to have views on the...
We need much more of a Henry VIII-style attitude to celebrities – less adulation, and more “amuse me minstrels and if you’re very, very good I might not have you executed”. As a Jew and a descendent of...
View ArticleHypochondria, baked goods and matchmaking: the uncanny similarities between...
Semites and Sapphics have more in common than you might think, says Eleanor Margolis. “I’ve checked out her LinkedIn profile, it’s really impressive.”“She went to Oxford!”“Stop rolling your eyes,...
View ArticleI’d rather be labelled “another crazy lesbian” than treat my mental health as...
While dealing with the beak-faced bastard of her own depression, Eleanor Margolis worries she's a traitor for perpetuating the “crazy lesbian” stereotype. The “crazy lesbian” is everywhere. From the...
View ArticleLez Miserable: the teaches of Peaches
Eleanor Margolis meets the high-priestess of sexually charged punk electronica and singer of Fuck the Pain Away, Diddle My Skittle and Tent in Your Pants.On stage, Peaches, the 46-year-old high...
View ArticleThe animal onesie: the fluffy scourge of Generation Y
Adults, myself included, are regressing to childhood - moving back in with their parents, job-hunting in between porn-viewing sessions and eating bowls of Frosties for dinner. Who could blame us?Even...
View ArticleLez Miserable: "Every time I kiss a woman in public, I risk homophobic abuse."
This is a time in which we gays should be kissing and holding hands anywhere and everywhere.“Look… girls… kissing!” I blurt, dumbly, as Finnish Eurovision singer Krista Siegfrids locks lips with a PVC...
View ArticleLez Miserable: "Welcome to the Lesbian Bermuda Triangle of doomed romance"
The Northern Line is a veritable lesbian hot spot. Nowhere else can you run into so many failed dates from the past at the same time.I’m on the Northern line trundling towards Angel, where I’m meeting...
View ArticleLez Miserable: "The fundamental problem with 'Straight Pride' is that...
For Eleanor Margolis, Gay Pride will always be Out Pride - a day when gay people are proud of who they are in spite of what the most conservative elements of society want them to be.Straight Pride: it...
View ArticleLez Miserable: How to speak Lesbianese
Modern lesbian vernacular is coy, verging on enigmatic. Eleanor Margolis does her best to guide you through it.“I just want to be topped by a boy,” says a lesbian friend, as we’re on our way to what we...
View ArticleLez Miserable: "Here's my second coming out: I hate music festivals"
Live music is great. But you know what's also great? Bands not sounding like they’re shouting into saucepans.With light seeping in from outside, I can just about see my breath in front of me. My head...
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