Gwyneth Paltrow
The tyranny of 1970s self-help gurus
Clients pursuing ’true self’ were expected to wear identical clothes, shave their heads, self-flagellate and be ‘given hell’, while paying through the nose for it
The weird and wacky world of Goop
The other day, as I walked with my partner through Notting Hill, we came across a shop which deserves to…
Has any band of the past 20 years been as consistently irritating as Coldplay?
It’s a long time, a very, very long time, since I bought a Coldplay album. Has any band of the…
Arianna Huffington meets Madame de Menopause
A-Huff’s career has been remarkable for the contrast between hard-headed social advancement (‘the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus’) and…
ANOTHER media failure. How does Tina Brown get away with it?
Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…
