Janice Turner
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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The 89 rules for life — according to top Times Writers
No phones at the table, avoid boat parties and ditch Twitter. Caitlin Moran, Giles Coren, Janice Turner, Matthew Parris and Sathnam Sanghera weigh in on what really matters → Read More
Glenda Jackson at 86: I don’t worry about getting older
As Glenda Jackson, 86, embarks on a new film with Michael Caine, she tells Janice Turner why she couldn’t care less what anyone thinks → Read More
Sean Bean: ‘I’m a romantic… otherwise I wouldn’t have kept getting married’
The actor on what it’s like to play a husband of 27 years in his latest drama — when he’s been married five times in real life → Read More
Is ‘TikTok MP’ Dehenna Davison the future of the Tory party?
For a second Dehenna Davison loses her train of thought. A name has flashed up on one of the Westminster TV screens that announce who is speaking in the House. → Read More
Justin Webb: ‘Everything I learnt about being a man, I learnt from a woman’
Justin Webb is unflappable on the Today programme. But his upbringing was anything but calm. He talks about his late mother, his stepfather’s mental illness and his biological father, who had nothing to do with him → Read More
How to get a happy fix: the 27 easiest ways to lift your mood
I write with mud in my hair. Thirteen years ago now, I realised that to be happy — or, more precisely, not unhappy — I needed three things: violent exercise, fr → Read More
Rosie Kay: I resigned from my own dance company after I was accused of transphobia
Choreographer Rosie Kay has never shied away from controversial subjects. Her ballet MK Ultra addressed conspiracy theorists; her award-winning 5 Soldiers, insp → Read More
Matthew Macfadyen on sex scenes, Succession and his A-list marriage
Matthew Macfadyen didn’t work for a year when he got his first big break. Now, at 47, he’s in Succession, the hottest show on television → Read More
Professor Kathleen Stock and the toxic gender debate
Two weeks after Professor Kathleen Stock resigned, she is yet to empty her faculty office, a task she dreads. The last time she walked through the underpass to → Read More
Corbyn’s legacy is still poisoning Labour
Claudia Webbe should trademark her words “I’m not mad, I’m a member of parliament” and make wacky signs to hang in Westminster offices. She’ll probably need an → Read More
Could freezing eggs be the new 21st birthday gift?
I froze my eggs — now I have more optionsSophia Money-CouttsIt was the sort of conversation that wouldn’t have sounded wholly out of place in The Handmaid’s Tal → Read More
Matt Hancock’s sin is hypocrisy not infidelity
Waking up yesterday morning felt like we’d been teleported back to the 1980s by some tabloid time machine. A minister caught in a “steamy clinch”. Two female rivals held up for harsh public comparison → Read More
A £100 dog licence would make buyers think first
A press release arrives for a new delicacy. It contains salmon, peanut butter and sweet potato and is 100 per cent natural, with no added salts, sugars or preservatives. Some overpriced Gwynnie → Read More
Look Again with David Bailey – from Deneuve, Shrimpton and Helvin to his new memoir
David Bailey’s autobiography is called Look Again, but Love Again or Lust Again would be more apt. His is a truly remarkable 20th-century life: the boy who watched from his father’s shoulders as the → Read More
Sasha Swire's diaries reveal the crass elitism of the Cameron government
Full of enraging ancedotes of the rich and powerful, Diary of an MP’s Wife shows how the Cameroons treated public office like a luxury holiday villa. → Read More
How Melania Trump gets what she wants
Dismissing Melania ignores two extraordinary feats: rising from lone eastern European immigrant to First Lady in 20 years, and being the longest relationship of that most eccentric and difficult man, Donald J Trump. → Read More
The lockdown litterbugs have been unleashed
Under a tree in the park is a fairy-ring of takeaway boxes. You can tell what each person ate, who preferred mustard to ketchup. Sated, this party got up and left their rubbish exactly where it lay → Read More
Lockdown has been turning my fingers green
A usually lush garden centre looked so forlorn — very few bedding plants, scant choice of pots — I assumed it was closing down. Far from it. It went online from the first day of lockdown and delivered → Read More
Giving puberty blocker to ‘trans’ children is a leap into the unknown
An 11-year-old child is probably years from his or her first kiss. Yet the drug they are about to take will almost certainly lead to a medical pathway which will leave them sterile. Since their → Read More
Feminists have fallen for the strip club myth
A friend told me his student daughter had become a feminist activist. Check out her Facebook page, he said. So I did, expecting posts on the gender pay gap or #MeToo. Instead I discovered the campaign to which she and her mates devoted their energy was to save the Sheffield branch of Spearmint Rhino → Read More