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Grace Dent

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Grace Dent is a journalist, author, and broadcaster.

<p>These dishes give microwave dinner a new meaning </p>
Food and Drink

Grace Dent’s quick and easy recipes that only require the microwave

Without the threat of the hangover, what’s to stop us boozing every night?
Voices

Why everyone should be against hangover-free alcohol

Did you really need to go down to the Arndale Centre to start your Christmas shopping today, Brenda?
Voices

Today’s Snowmaggedon is a national holiday

The name Rak-Su sounds like something toxic you put down in the attic to stop rats eating your wiring – and that is the sort of solid gold Dad Joke which has reverberated around Britain’s cold, skint, post-Brexit living rooms for months
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X-Factor winners Rak-Su are actually quite good

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Sorry if I don’t shed a tear for Meghan Markle having to quit her job

Trace Lysette has accused Jeffrey Tambor of sexual harassment
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Don’t blame Trace Lysette for ruining the success of Transparent

The Church of England has told schools to let children ‘explore gender identity’
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Angry about trans education in schools? This is why you're wrong

A gunman shot dead at least 26 people using a AR-15 rifle
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Why I’m no longer talking to God about gun sprees

Theresa May has vowed to take action over Westminster sexual harassment allegations
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We were wrong to think a female PM could change Westminster

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Double Take: Why women, not men, can joke about sexism

Jamie Harron faced prison for 'touching a man's hip' but was released today
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Why did we think it was OK to holiday in Dubai in the first place?

James Corden has said he is 'truly sorry' for Weinstein jokes
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James Corden, women can joke about sexual assault but you can’t

Berry admitted she'd never actually eaten a takeaway pizza during her segment on pizza – would Levi Roots have gotten away with the same thing?
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We need to challenge Mary Berry on her out-of-touchness

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We need to challenge Mary Berry on her out-of-touchness

Berry admitted she'd never actually eaten a takeaway pizza during her segment on pizza – would Levi Roots have gotten away with the same thing?
So two-tier and polarised is modern Britain that once you have experienced the smoothness of a life like the family Johnson, living any other way is simply unthinkable
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I know the reason why Boris Johnson thinks he's broke

Swaggering jock Kyle Reyes (above) designed the highly provocative ‘Snowflake Test’ for so-called ‘entitled millennials’
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The 'Snowflake Test' for millennial employees is really win-win

Jane Fonda at the Emmy Awards 2017
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All hail, Jane Fonda, ‘Queen of the New Old’

Luke Howard said his relationship had broken down because ‘life got in the way’
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Was the piano-playing man in Bristol creepy or just a person in love?

Luke Howard said his relationship had broken down because ‘life got in the way’
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Was the piano-playing man in Bristol creepy or just a person in love?

Taylor Swift in the video for her new single "Look What You Made Me Do"
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Sadly, we all know someone like Taylor Swift

If Amal Clooney truthfully wanted the world to focus solely and without a moment’s deviation on her sterling and remarkable work with the Yazidi women, she’d look like Peppermint Patty from ‘Peanuts’
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I don't feel sorry for Amal Clooney and her knackered hubby George

Last orders: an advert at Stansted airport departures area urges passengers to enjoy ‘one last pint before you fly’
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It’s not like airports don’t want to get passengers drunk

“Sugar is a powerful thing,” he said, “I get more work when I’m thinner. So I can’t put on weight”.
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You can't have your cake and eat it when you are a TV star

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This week, Game of Thrones gave viewers what they needed

Jacob Rees-Mogg is ahead of Boris Johnson in the polls
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We should listen to what Jacob Rees-Mogg is telling us

The power which the female characters relish nevertheless corrupts, just as it does their male counterparts
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Game of Thrones is a feminist TV show – glad Doctor Who caught up

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Is Ivanka Trump sitting in on Donald's G20 meetings a feminist act?

Jacob Rees-Mogg is ahead of Boris Johnson in the polls
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We should listen to what Jacob Rees-Mogg is telling us

The power which the female characters relish nevertheless corrupts, just as it does their male counterparts
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Game of Thrones is a feminist TV show – glad Doctor Who caught up

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Is Ivanka Trump sitting in on Donald's G20 meetings a feminist act?

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has been vocal about her support for LGBT rights
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Why Ruth Davidson's sexy tweet isn't really that 'problematic'

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Why Ruth Davidson's sexy tweet isn't really that 'problematic'

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has been vocal about her support for LGBT rights
Ed Sheeran performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival
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The Ed Sheeran haters have lost touch with reality

Beyoncé performs while heavily pregnant at the 59th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles earlier this year
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Beyoncé's dad must be regretting announcing the arrival of her twins

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania and their son Barron arrive at the White House
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Here’s how Melania can escape the White House

Ariana, plus her revolving cabaret troupe of pop’s biggest and best, performed light-as-air pop tunes and made things, albeit temporarily, feel softer and clearer
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Ariana Grande is proof of the healing power of pop

Ariana, plus her revolving cabaret troupe of pop’s biggest and best, performed light-as-air pop tunes and made things, albeit temporarily, feel softer and clearer
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Ariana Grande is proof of the healing power of pop

John Noakes' (right) relationship with Blue Peter's border collie, Shep, taught children across Britain how to bond with their pets
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Farewell John Noakes, my first crush

Pippa Middleton is escorted into the church by her father
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Pippa Middleton's grotesque lesson in wedding etiquette

The Crown, a Netflix original, was expected to do well at the Baftas
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Why Netflix did so badly at the Baftas

Emma Watson won the first gender neutral MTV TV & Movie Award
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Emma Watson’s gender neutral award is the final straw for gong-giving

The stars of Loose Women posed for a photoshoot to promote body positivity
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Why Loose Women's underwear photoshoot matters so much

The Tory MP believes the blame for many social problems lies, in the main, with feminism
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The Women’s Equality Party are taking on Philip Davies – about time

It could be argued that easyJet adores our flakiness and poor timekeeping
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There's no such thing as a 'mini-break' when you fly budget airlines

Former legal highs, including the substance Spice, are now registered as Class B drugs – but that hasn't limited their popularity in Manchester
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Social media might be the best way to fight the war on drugs

Doris Day turns 95, not 93, today
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Cut Doris Day some slack for ‘forgetting’ her real age

When gap years were first invented, in the Seventies, they were for privileged eighteen year olds to ‘escape’ from gilded lives which most average tikes would run towards open-armed
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Adult gap years won't save you from the misery of grown-up life

Ronaldo is a dedicated father to his son and, it’s rumoured, may become a father again soon
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Cristiano Ronaldo is apparently set to have twins via a surrogate

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Cristiano Ronaldo is apparently set to have twins via a surrogate

Ronaldo is a dedicated father to his son and, it’s rumoured, may become a father again soon
Social media increases loneliness, the latest study by the University of Pittsburgh found
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Of course social media is full of sad, lonely people

Shocked faces on stage at the Oscars as the real winner of the Best Picture award is revealed
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The Oscars mix-up was a piece of performance art for our times

Sir David Attenborough speaking at the The London Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Old Vic Theatre
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David Attenborough is the poster boy for the 'new old'

Adele snapped her Grammy in two, offering the other half to Beyoncé
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You missed the most interesting thing at the Grammy Awards

Adele snapped her Grammy in two, offering the other half to Beyoncé
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You missed the most interesting thing at the Grammy Awards

David Beckham on the Graham Norton Show
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David Beckham's email scandal will not finish off our Golden Balls

The US President signing an executive order to impose tighter vetting of travellers entering the country
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British politeness does not extend to a state visit for Trump

'It doesn't help that BlackRock sounds like a dystopian hellhole'
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Surprised by Osborne's new job with BlackRock? You shouldn't be

The former Ukip leader was the first British politician to meet the President-elect after the US election
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Farage knows there's money to be made in acting like a Trump supporter

Referring to Trump, Streep said: 'When the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose'
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I'm glad Meryl Streep brought some Trump-bashing to the Golden Globes

Who could possibly object to the development of new towns known as 'garden villages'?
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Everything you need to know before moving to a 'garden village'

Ed Miliband bought fish and chips for journalists travelling with him during his campaign trail
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For Brexiteers, replacing cod with squid will be the final straw

Felix Kjellberg, AKA PewDiePie, the world's highest-earning YouTuber
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YouTube created monsters like PewDiePie – they deserve what they get

No one could deny the gusto with which the former shadow Chancellor approached his role on Strictly
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Ed Balls – please stick to dancing and abandon a political comeback

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the President-elect, has already met with the Japanese premier
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Ivanka Trump is a pseudo-feminist fig leaf for her father's politics

Trump pledged to appoint pro-life justices and said he was himself pro-life
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Donald Trump, like his supporters, isn't pro-life – he's anti-women

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Donald Trump, like his supporters, isn't pro-life – he's anti-women

Trump pledged to appoint pro-life justices and said he was himself pro-life
Ant and Dec are back with this years I'm a Celebrity
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I'm A Celebrity is the ultimate Brexit voters' show

Hilary Duff and her boyfriend Jason Walsh went to a Halloween party as a Native American and pilgrim pair
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Hilary Duff’s Halloween costume faux pas wasn’t malicious

Latest research uses a peptide which alters the way human cells work, “switching off” sperm’s ability to swim
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The Male Pill – an excuse for men to remain bachelors for longer

That’s some serious side eye from the Trumps
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The Al Smith dinner shows just how bizarre the US election has become

That’s some serious side eye from the Trumps
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The Al Smith dinner shows just how bizarre the US election has become

Melania Trump
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Nicki Minaj is right – pray we don't get stuck with First Lady Trump

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this week
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It’s official: Baby Boomer male backslapping has reached its nadir

Hillary keeps a sensible silence in the face of Trump's provocations
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Clinton, like all women, cannot win in the face of male infidelity

Farage should have said that the row that led to Woolfe being hospitalised has no place in politics
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Nigel Farage shouldn’t write off the Steven Woolfe incident so soon

30 Years of The Independent

Beyoncé changes her name

Ms Leadsom faced social media backlash after suggesting young Britons take up fruit-picking jobs
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Only snobs would be outraged by Andrea Leadsom’s suggestions

The North East Skinny Dip, where people run naked in aid of charity
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Stop telling me you're going on holiday ‘for charity’

Harriet Harman said Theresa May is a woman but 'not a sister' at the Labour conference during the weekend
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Is Theresa May supposed to be offended that she's ‘not a sister’?

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Joss Whedon's latest anti-Trump project will spectacularly backfire

Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, marches in the Toronto Pride festival
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London has come 53rd in the liveability report - I'm not surprised

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No wonder millennials are angry Russia's banned Pornhub

Hillary Clinton waves after leaving an apartment building in New York
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If we expect them to be infallible, we get the leaders we deserve

Sturgeon’s biographer revealed that she had a miscarriage while she was deputy first minister
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Nicola Sturgeon shouldn’t have to explain her miscarriage to anyone

Almost everything Corbyn suggests about sexism sounds like a sketch from 'The Two Ronnies'
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I've found myself agreeing with Corbyn about toxic after-work drinks

Bragg's ten part series will feature on BBC Radio 4
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I welcome Melvyn Bragg’s celebration of all things 'not South’

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The student whose pictures with Usain Bolt went viral has won gold

Almost everything Corbyn suggests about sexism sounds like a sketch from 'The Two Ronnies'
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I've found myself agreeing with Corbyn about toxic after-work drinks

Bragg's ten part series will feature on BBC Radio 4
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I welcome Melvyn Bragg’s celebration of all things 'not South’

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The student whose pictures with Usain Bolt went viral has won gold

The Night Tube is due to open tonight, on the Central and Victoria lines
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Why I won't be taking a ride on Sadiq Khan's glittering night tube

Bill Bryson’s ‘Notes from a Small Island’ is celebrating its 20th birthday this year
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Bill Bryson couldn’t be more wrong about Britons

The Duke was a close friend of the Royal family
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The young Duke of Westminster's £9bn missed out his older sisters

Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, topped the list of highest-paid chief executives
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FTSE fat cat salaries prove big business is still a man’s game

Naked pictures of Orlando Bloom were published in a number of outlets including the New York Daily News and Daily Star
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Why you shouldn't check out Orlando Bloom's naked pictures

Kevin Roberts has been disciplined over sexism comments
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If women want to equal men, they must change their notion of happiness

Colin ‘Heavy D’ Newell, of Storage Hunters UK, enters the CBB house
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Celebrity Big Brother isn't as shambolic as you might think

Speaking to BBC radio on Wednesday morning, Iain Wright said that although Sir Philip’s payment represents a ‘significant milestone’ it has nothing to do with his knighthood
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It wasn't just Philip Green who spent all that money

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