Moving On , my second novel, is published as an ebook today – and I’m over the moon. It’s the novel I’m most proud of so I’m hop...

Tony Blair reckons he’s better equipped to be PM now than he was during his Downing Street years. He says he’s learned “an immense amount” a...

Alexandra Shulman, the brilliant Vogue editor-in-chief, has just written her first novel. Can We Still Be Friends is set in the 1980s and...

Sitting on the Oxford Tube on the way home from London last night, I flicked idly through the Evening Standard . There, on page five, was a...

As a student in London, I’m living in the fashion capital of the country, some might say the world. This is one of the many reasons I was ad...

The PR glanced at my scribble-filled notebook and did an astonished double take. “You write shorthand?” she gasped. “Wow. You’re the first j...

I’ve never met a journalist who isn’t obsessed with their byline – for the uninitiated, that's the line between the headline and the sto...

Few people, if any, have a good word to say about journalists these days. As the Leveson inquiry reveals shocking new details about decepti...

“Journalism is alive and well and feisty, especially at the New York Times .” Those were the upbeat words of journalist John Lloyd after a ...

From Emily Carlisle to Sarah Duncan , fellow bloggers have given me loads of fantastic advice over the last few months. I’ve gleaned tips o...

My teenage son’s trying to decide which universities to apply to. The only trouble is that after poring over countless websites, they’re al...

On Saturday and Sunday mornings I wake in the grey light of dawn, fretting that my student daughter has got home to her flat all right. She...

From facelifts to Botox, we’re all preoccupied with capturing the smooth brows and wrinkle-free skin of our youth. None more so than Madon...

Journalism can be exciting, nerve-racking, mind-numbingly dull and, at times, very very annoying. But unless you’re a film critic or showb...

After a decade of working in Fleet Street news rooms I went freelance when my daughter was born. Working from home, I juggled looking after ...

We’re living through extraordinary times. After the dramatic events of last week I assumed last week’s media storm would die down for a whil...

I stopped and did a double-take when I spotted the news on Twitter. Halfway down Oxford Street to meet my teenage daughter from work, I cou...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s 11-day tour of Canada and California has got me thinking about my own brief sojourn as a royal reporter....

Am I the only person who’s bored rigid by Wimbledon ? It may be the world's greatest tennis tournament but I couldn’t care less about ...

Columnist Liz Jones is a mass of contradictions. She’s forever complaining she’s broke, yet buys Prada, Bottega Veneta and most recently a...