Sarah Sands
Sarah Sands enjoyed decade long tenures at the London Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph, before becoming the first female editor of the Sunday Telegraph in 2005. Her topical weekly column looks at social and cultural issues.
Sarah Sands: If you're fat or dowdy, please just stay at home
The England football team may be disappointing but their supporters can do no wrong. The London Evening Standard reports that local police are struck by the polite attractiveness of the crowds. More hedge funders than hooligans. More latte than lager. A couple of princes thrown in and this is the Wimbledon of World Cups.
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Sarah Sands: Clever Clegg minds his languages - all six of them
Sunday, 13 June 2010
As Nick Clegg fell fluently into German during his visit to Berlin last week, his senior Cabinet colleague William Hague held fast to his translation earphones so he could understand what the Deputy Prime Minister was saying. I bet he did. Anything could have been going on. Clegg could have signed Britain up to the euro.
Sarah Sands: Community viewing is back in style
Sunday, 6 June 2010
If one divides a house into male and female parts, there is no doubt about the gender of the television. It is preening and dominating and size-obsessed and demanding of worship. Most of the gadgets we use are getting smaller and neater – computers, phones, laptops. Not televisions. Televisions are growing into monsters.
Sarah Sands: Moving to No 10 is the ultimate in social mobility
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Lives can be measured in births, marriages and deaths but it is much more interesting to trace destiny and social history through house moves. Each one of them a drama of hope, progress, winding down or disappointment, bubble-wrapped and watched with critical scrutiny by the neighbours. The Camerons' move from Kensington to Downing Street is an intriguing conflict between political achievement and social descent.
Sarah Sands: Toxic Bush's better half is his best advert
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Laura Bush's old-world style will win us over
To depart with dignity is all you can want in life - or death
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Sarah Sands: Nothing in Gordon Brown's time at No 10 became him like the leaving of it.
Sarah Sands: The camera does lie, but not the radio
Sunday, 9 May 2010
If you really want to know what's what, tune in
Who wants an untidy slob as a husband? And who's got one?
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Sarah Sands gathers up the leaders’ dropped hints at manly disorder
Sarah Sands: Marriages founder on trivia but are immune to the Pope
Sunday, 25 April 2010
The initial reluctance of Miriam Clegg to campaign with her husband was cited as evidence of her down-to-earth modesty. She had "got real" about the everyday demands of a working mother. Since then, there have been clues that the balance of power is elsewhere in this relationship.
The enduring, and very British, appeal of Jackie O
Sunday, 18 April 2010
New film, plus hours of 1964 interviews, will shed more light on Camelot.
Sarah Sands: Yes, the voting age should be changed – to 25
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Gordon Brown has got it wrong about youth
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