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Will Dean

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Will Dean is Editor of The Independent Magazine

Greece

Hotel review: Ikos Olivia, Greece

Sovereign's Gate
Hotels

Osborne House, Isle of Wight: Gateway to the royal treatment

Commentators

Funny things happen when you leave home and don't go back

From here to maternity: Darren Boyd plays the midwife in‘The Delivery Man’
Reviews

The Delivery Man, review: Fish-out-of-water sitcom is the best laugh

Paradise lost: Bear Grylls, centre, and the male team on their Pacific island
Reviews

The Island with Bear Grylls, TV review: They'd be better off with a

Chain of command: ‘Hillary Clinton: the Power of Women’
Reviews

Hillary Clinton: the Power of Women: It's the inequality, stupid

Coren was told he was on the verge of fatness
Reviews

Eat To Live Forever With Giles Goren, TV review: Do you want to live

Coren was told he was on the verge of fatness
Reviews

Eat To Live Forever With Giles Goren, TV review: Do you want to live

Playing chicken: ‘The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop’ looks behind the scenes at KFC
Reviews

The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop: A fry-on-the wall?

Timeshift: Spicing Up Britain looked at the country's post-war restaurant revolution
Reviews

Timeshift: Spicing Up Britain - How Eating Out Went Exotic, TV review:

Scarlett Lewis holds up a photo of her six-year-old son Jesse, who was killed in the attack
Reviews

Surviving Sandy Hook, TV review: Three brave families honour the

The right treatment: Philippa Perry presented ‘Being Bipolar’
Reviews

Being Bipolar, TV review: At last, a hug that isn't a telly moment,

Reviews

Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power, TV review:

Reviews

Suffragettes Forever! The Story of Women and Power, TV review:

A cut above: Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn in 'Wolf Hall'
Reviews

Wolf Hall, TV review: Henry VIII goes out on a high in a history

A cut above: Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn in 'Wolf Hall'
Reviews

Wolf Hall, TV review: Henry VIII goes out on a high in a history

Pop sociologist: Ronson is deft at getting his shamed subjects to talk
Reviews

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, book review: You are

Top gun: John Wojtowicz was the subject of ‘Storyville: Sex Addict Heist – the Dog’
Reviews

Storyville: Sex Addict Heist - the Dog, TV review: Real life story

Top gun: John Wojtowicz was the subject of ‘Storyville: Sex Addict Heist – the Dog’
Reviews

Storyville: Sex Addict Heist - the Dog, TV review: Real life story

Off the wall: Jolyon Rubinstein presented ‘An Idiot’s Guide to Politics’
Reviews

An Idiot's Guide to Politics, TV review: Jolyon Rubinstein misses the

Baby bond: writer Will Dean at home with his newborn baby, Johnny
Features

Paternity leave: Do the figures actually add up?

Britain will become the first country ever to allow the procedures if MPs vote yes, which are aimed at preventing serious or deadly genetic disease being passed on to the child
Comment

I just became a dad, so I know how vital proper paternity leave is

Assured: BBC3 reporter Alys Harte
Reviews

Abortion: Ireland's Guilty Secret?, TV review: BBC3's film reveals

Making waves: 'Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom'
Reviews

Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom: Animals get one over on humans

Master of ceremony: Jeremy Paxman
Reviews

Churchill: The Nation's Farewell, TV review: Paxman reveals truth

Food & Drink

Burns Night 2015: 11 best whiskies

Reviews

Pets - Wild at Heart, TV review: Not quite Planet Earth but plenty of

Master of ceremony: Jeremy Paxman
Reviews

Churchill: The Nation's Farewell, TV review: Paxman reveals truth

Food & Drink

Burns Night 2015: 11 best whiskies

Reviews

Pets - Wild at Heart, TV review: Not quite Planet Earth but plenty of

Sister act: Emma Pierson, Jessica Hynes, Judy Parfitt and Rebecca Front in ‘Up the Women’
Reviews

Up The Women, TV review: The Suffragettes were history's winners - and

Reviews

Up The Women, TV review: The Suffragettes were history's winners - and

Sister act: Emma Pierson, Jessica Hynes, Judy Parfitt and Rebecca Front in ‘Up the Women’
Mark Rylance stars as Thomas Cromwell in BBC2’s ‘Wolf Hall’
Reviews

Wolf Hall, BBC2: An imperious Rylance revels in the darkness

Phyto professional fiber paste, £15, phyto-haircare.co.uk
Features

The best hair pomade: Start the new year with a new 'do

Fight club: the Siege of Marlborough in the English Civil War was relived in ‘Weekend Warriors’
Reviews

Weekend Warriors, TV review: A cheap way to make a battle documentary

George Clarke (left) with Russell and Nadia outside their cottage in Shropshire
Reviews

The Restoration Man, TV review: A wrecked Grade II-listed cottage is

George Clarke (left) with Russell and Nadia outside their cottage in Shropshire
Reviews

The Restoration Man, TV review: A wrecked Grade II-listed cottage is

Giles Clark, the star of Tigers About the House: What Happened Next
Reviews

Tigers About the House: What Happened Next, BBC2, TV review: Not quite

Profiles

The Unluckiest People of the Year 2014 (and one very unlucky giraffe)

Didn’t he do well? Bruce Forsyth presenting ‘The Generation Game’
Reviews

The Fight for Saturday Night, TV review: Top marks for Michael Grade's

Jason Watkins as Christopher Jefferies
Reviews

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, review: Jason Watkins is

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to spin a yarn; Atul Kochhar's bookshelf;

Reviews

Liberty of London, TV review: It's fun to watch the follies of the

The programme was a look back at the Mad Men-y age of the Sixties and Seventies
Reviews

Confessions of a Secretary, TV review: The "good old days" were in

Sports & Fitness

Christmas 2014: 10 best gifts for babies and toddlers

Sports & Fitness

Christmas 2014: 10 best gifts for babies and toddlers

Reviews

Confessions of a Doctor, TV review: Difficult to watch but compassion

Reviews

The Legacy, Sky Arts 1, TV review: Smart, dark and off-kilter

Reviews

The Legacy, Sky Arts 1, TV review: Smart, dark and off-kilter

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to win a conker fight; Mal Peet's

Creep show: Tim Cockerill in ‘Spider House’
Reviews

Spider House, TV: even ardent arachnophobes will think twice

When worlds collide: ‘Particle Fever: the Hunt for Higgs Boson’
Reviews

Particle Fever: the Hunt for Higgs Boson, TV review: Blown away by a

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to sew; bestsellers' typography; Space

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to sew; bestsellers' typography; Space

Soldiers’ story: David Reynolds visited Redipuglia‚ Italy’s First World War memorial, in  ‘The Long Shadow’
Reviews

The Long Shadow, TV review: Mussolini was a British spy? They don’t

Reviews

Crackanory, Dave, review: All hail Rik Mayall, the much-missed king

Russell Tovey and Sarah Hadland in The Job Lot series 2
Reviews

The Job Lot, ITV2, review: Sex talk undermines returning Russell

Mod men: the Small Faces featured in Oh! You Pretty Things: the Story of Music and Fashion
Reviews

Oh! You Pretty Things: the Story of Music and Fashion, TV review: It's

Gary Cole and Julia-Louis Dreyfus in season 3 of Veep
Reviews

Veep, TV review: Season-ending double-header ramps up the freneticism

Let's get quizzical: Warwick Davis (with James Corden centre) hosts Celebrity Squares
Reviews

Celebrity Squares, TV review: Wise up, Warwick Davis! There's money at

Going wild: Lee Ingleby and Liz White in ‘Our Zoo’
Reviews

Our Zoo, TV review: A heart-warming period drama

City slicker: Dr James Fox in front of Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’ in Vienna
Reviews

Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: a Tale of Three Cities, TV review:

Thumb a ride: Mary Walker featured in ‘100-Year-Old Drivers’
Reviews

100-Year-Old Drivers, TV review: This wryly amusing look at mature

Sports & Fitness

10 best football gear

Inside information: Mariella Frostrup discovered more about her great-great-grandfather's incarceration in HMP Lancaster Castle in ‘Secrets from the Clink’
Reviews

Secrets from the Clink, TV review: Intriguing exposé of criminal past

Reviews

Secrets from the Clink, TV review: Intriguing exposé of criminal past

Inside information: Mariella Frostrup discovered more about her great-great-grandfather's incarceration in HMP Lancaster Castle in ‘Secrets from the Clink’
Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to read someone; Dean Whatmuff; Geoff

Clowning around: Neil Maskell, Jo Hartley, Jamie Demetriou, Rebecca Gethings and Terry Mynott in ‘The Mimic’
Reviews

The Mimic: TV review: This sitcom sleeper hit is still making a good

Edward Snowden's revelations about the information lifted by the Government has cast the potential uses of Big Data in an unfortunate light, say its critics
Reviews

Into A Raging Blaze by Andreas Norman; Trans. Ian Giles

Going underground: ‘The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway’
Reviews

The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway, BBC2 - TV review: There's nothing

Going underground: ‘The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway’
Reviews

The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway, BBC2 - TV review: There's nothing

Winning combination: the German team
International

Germany's football team: Everything you need to know about the World

Get with the programmers: Mike Judge’s new comedy, ‘Silicon Valley’
Reviews

Silicon Valley, Sky Atlantic - review: A promising start for a satire

Reviews

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap By Matt

Reviews

The White Widow: Searching for Samantha, BBC1, TV review

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to blend in like a local; getting

Crowning moments: Dan Cruickshank in ‘Majesty and Mortar: Britain’s Great Palaces’
Reviews

Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces, TV review: Dan

Making waves: Hazel Evitts featured in ‘The Trouble with Mobility Scooters’
Reviews

The Trouble with Mobility Scooters, TV review: Menacing drivers don't

Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and Nick (Jake Johnson) in 'New Girl'
Features

New Girl's Nick and Jess are just Ross and Rachel in disguise

Chest the job: ITV’s World Cup anchor Adrian Chiles – never knowingly under-Brummied
International

World Cup 2014: Is Phil Neville the worst pundit in Brazil? A look at

On the attack: Jay featured in ‘Football Hooligan & Proud’
Reviews

Football Hooligan & Proud, TV review: Uninspiring look at ugly side of

Learn a basic waltz, choose a good song, dance for a verse and a chorus, invite the family in and then get back to the bar
Marriage

The first dance arms race: The rise of cool songs and elaborate

Will Dean walks down the aisle with wife Gemma
Marriage

A young person's guide to 'I do': What's it like to get married in

Just the job: ‘Mary’s Silver Service’
Reviews

Mary's Silver Service, TV review: Portas shows retirement has a silver

Reviews

Rock Stars Stole My Life! A Big Bad Love Affair with Music by Mark

Tied up: Rich Sommer, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm in ‘Mad Men’
Reviews

Mad Men, TV review: Another giant leap for television as show enters

Crate expectations: Richie and Nikki in ‘Del Boys and Dealers’
Reviews

Del Boys and Dealers, TV review: A wheeler-dealer documentary that's

Reviews

Rock Stars Stole My Life! A Big Bad Love Affair with Music by Mark

Tied up: Rich Sommer, Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm in ‘Mad Men’
Reviews

Mad Men, TV review: Another giant leap for television as show enters

Crate expectations: Richie and Nikki in ‘Del Boys and Dealers’
Reviews

Del Boys and Dealers, TV review: A wheeler-dealer documentary that's

John McEnroe and Andy Murray pictured in 2011
Reviews

Love Games: A History of Tennis, From Victorian Pastime to Global

Yes he's serious: John McEnroe disputing an umpire's call, July 1980
Reviews

Love Game: A History of Tennis, From Victorian Pastime to Global

Reviews

Coast Australia, TV review: Visually stunning and never uninteresting

Jokers in the pack: Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan (centre) and Matt LeBlanc in ‘Episodes’
Reviews

Episodes, TV review: Matt LeBlanc needs a little more help from his

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to win a rap battle; condom multipacks;

Which has a bigger population, Luxembourg or Iceland?
Puzzles and Games

The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser

Quizzes

The Saturday Quiz answers

Reviews

The Birth of Empire: The East India Company, TV review

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