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Clair Woodward

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Clair Woodward is a culture and lifestyle writer. A former deputy editor of Ok! magazine, she has held senior posts at the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Express. A columnist for the Sunday Times’s Culture supplement, she is also a regular contributor to podcasts about popular culture, and always keen to be a talking-head on “I ❤️” TV shows about “yesteryear”

<p>Joan Collins took to Instagram to bemoan the Lime bikes blocking her path in Kensington, west London</p>
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Robert Jenrick’s next crusade should be against Lime bikes

<p>Ncuti Gatwa regenerates in the finale of ‘Doctor Who’</p>
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If the BBC licence fee is scrapped, Doctor Who can go behind a paywall

<p>Robert Jenrick tackled fare dodgers at Stratford station on the London Underground</p>
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Robert Jenrick has joined my one-woman battle against fare-dodgers

<p>Israel’s Yuval Raphael, a 24-year-old singer and survivor of the 7 October attacks, was booed during her Eurovision semi-final </p>
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For Eurovision’s sake, let’s keep politics out of the song contest

<p>‘Prospero and Ariel’ by Eric Gill on the front of the BBC’s Broadcasting House</p>
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Artworks by disgraced artists need context, not protective screens

<p>‘Older and younger people should come together rather than slagging each other off’</p>
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Hey, Gen Z: back off ‘wealth-hoarding’ boomers

<p>Patients in a hospital corridor awaiting treatment</p>
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Wes Streeting is right not to do a ‘victory lap’ over the NHS

<p>Thomas Kingston died in February last year after he stopped taking prescribed SSRIs</p>
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I stopped taking antidepressants – I should have known better

<p>BetterUp, the mental health startup that gives the Duke of Sussex an estimated £800,000 salary, has been branded a ‘toxic trainwreck’ by staff</p>
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Will 2024 go down as Prince Harry’s annus horribilis?

<p>Ricky Gervais and Penelope Wilton in ‘After Life’. Their bereaved characters start up a friendship on a public bench </p>
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Can AI cure loneliness? No – but this might…

<p>The Gen Z ‘sarnie army’ are after our basic butties </p>
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Your sandwich will never be ‘woke’ enough for Gen Z

<p>‘Coleen Rooney may surprise herself – and us – by what she gets up to on I’m a Celeb’ </p>
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Who needs villains on I’m a Celebrity when we’ve got Wagatha Christie?

<p>Gary Barlow (5ft 8in) has brought joy to the internet with a family photograph that includes his son, Daniel (6ft 2in) </p>
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‘Gary Barlow’s massive son’ has saved us from Trump misery

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‘Gary Barlow’s massive son’ has saved us from Trump misery

<p>Gary Barlow (5ft 8in) has brought joy to the internet with a family photograph that includes his son, Daniel (6ft 2in) </p>
<p>‘You can’t beat the thrill of a big firework display, which I still think is the best way to see them – everyone ooh-ing and aah-ing at the spectacle’ </p>
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Remember, remember? Maybe it’s time we forgot about Guy Fawkes

<p>‘Chreaster eggs’ are now part of Aldi’s Christmas range for 2024</p>
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Sorry, Aldi – the last thing I want for Christmas is a ‘Creaster egg’

<p>‘The workplace is becoming an under-40s zone’ </p>
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When did 57 become too old to work (…but too young to retire)?

<p>Phillip Schofield will tell his ‘story of survival – both on a desert island and off it’ in Channel 5’s ‘Cast Away’ </p>
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Phillip Schofield’s TV return is not illegal… but it is unwise

<p>Phillip Schofield will tell his ‘story of survival – both on a desert island and off it’ in Channel 5’s ‘Cast Away’ </p>
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Phillip Schofield’s TV return is not illegal… but it is unwise

<p>The number of women dying from alcohol-related disease in the UK is at the highest since records began</p>
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The moment I realised midlife, menopause and merlot don’t mix

<p>Angela Rayner could raise billions for the Treasury by making single households pay the full council tax </p>
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My love-in with Labour is already over after two months – here’s why

<p>Comedian Mark Simmons got the award for funniest joke at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. There’s a problem though </p>
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The ‘funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe’ won’t make you laugh

<p>Rosé is best appreciated when chilled to no lower than 7C – and left out of the fridge for 15 minutes before pouring </p>
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You’re drinking rosé all wrong… so how chilled should it be?

<p>Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, on a tour of Stevenage’s Airbus facility as part of Labour’s general election campaign – days after Rishi Sunak made a visit to the constituency</p>
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Why this election will be decided by ‘Stevenage Woman’

<p>Queen Camilla, Princess Anne and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh have stepped up to help The Firm </p>
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‘Charlie’s angels’: The three women the King needs in a crisis

<p>Women at the wheel: Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie</p>
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Sorry, Barbie – you just weren’t good enough

<p>Derek Draper with his wife, Kate Garraway </p>
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Derek Draper was my therapist – he saved my life

<p>Queen Camilla, Princess Anne and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh have stepped up to help The Firm </p>
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‘Charlie’s angels’: The three women the King needs in a crisis

<p>Women at the wheel: Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie</p>
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Sorry, Barbie – you just weren’t good enough

<p>Derek Draper with his wife, Kate Garraway </p>
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Derek Draper was my therapist – he saved my life

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