Janet Street-Porter

Editor-At-Large: I have a new pin-up (and it's not you, Pete Burns)

Published: 08 January 2006

It's good to see a new kind of pin-up in the press, and it certainly makes a change from Jordan and Pete Burns (can anyone tell them apart?). But surely the most appealing picture in recent weeks was that gorgeous Mous'l Fern, a five-month-old black bull-calf, who faces execution under the Government's tough new policy for dealing with bovine tuberculosis. Mous'l Fern may sound like a rapper, the Li'l Kim of the beef world, but he is in fact the youngest member of a highly prized rare Dexter breed of cattle, noted for their curly coats, short stature and fine meat, the toast of restaurateurs all over Britain.

Janet Street-Porter: My advice for this year: take less advice

Published: 05 January 2006

Advice is the most dangerous drug on offer in modern Britain. It's up to us to take control of our own lives

Editor-At-Large: Hot air, posh food and why the greening of Dave is a bit rich

Published: 01 January 2006

It's easy to be environmentally aware in Britain, if you're middle class. From eating organic to driving "green" cars to remodelling your home using ecologically sound principles, saving the planet is just that bit easier if you're wealthy enough to live in a posh area like Notting Hill Gate. One famous local resident is the Tory leader David Cameron. In a matter of days Mr Cameron has suddenly turned a most impressive shade of green.

Janet Street-Porter: My pride at making Elton's wedding speech

Published: 22 December 2005

You might think I was a bit of a controversial choice to make the speech yesterday at the celebrations marking the registering of the civil partnership of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. Well, I have known Elton for nearly 30 years, and am one of a handful of people who attended his previous wedding to Renata in Sydney in 1984. Even so, I admit I'm not exactly a great advertisement for any kind of marriage, having been divorced four times over a 40-year period. Like Elton, I got hitched to a Canadian, but that relationship fared no better than the preceding two, and ended after seven years.

Editor-At-Large: Christians awake (but does that include the censors and bullies?)

Published: 18 December 2005

In this season of goodwill to all men and women, an alternative version of the Christmas spirit will emanate from the Christian right. This week marks a historic moment for homosexual men and women in Britain, with the start of legally binding civil partnerships. But, for some religious groups, what should be a special season of celebration is going to be marked by another phase in a dirty war of propaganda and bullying. For them, there is only one version of Christianity, and their narrow view drives them to increasingly reprehensible tactics.

Janet Street-Porter: How planners blight our towns

Published: 15 December 2005

They are the last practitioners of the dark arts of subterfuge, waffle and downright deception

Editor-At-Large: Back in the closet, George. We only want your songs

Published: 11 December 2005

I can't think why a 42-year-old man has to tell us all about his sex life. Really, are we that interested? I've always had a soft spot for George Michael - he's such a control freak it's fascinating. This is the man who swore his private life would remain private, and now he's given three major interviews to the national press in the space of a week, in order to promote a new film about his life.

Janet Street-Porter: We won't be happy until Gazza is dead

Published: 08 December 2005

Surely the kind way to treat Paul Gascoigne would be to leave him in peace

Editor-At-Large: Christmas shopping? I'd rather be in the jungle with Carol

Published: 04 December 2005

With less than three weeks to go, it's doom and gloom in the high street as traders predict the worst Christmas for more than two decades. More than half of all retailers have said sales have fallen since November 2004. For every one of the past four months, sales have been the lowest - for each month - for 22 years. Nothing looks like changing in the short term.

Janet Street-Porter: Gay weddings and Christian hypocrisy

Published: 01 December 2005

For gay Catholics, December 2005 is not going to mark the season of rejoicing

Editor-At-Large: A short skirt, a fag and a drink are not an invitation to rape

Published: 27 November 2005

It has been a bad week for women. First, a poll showed that many people believe that if a woman wears suggestive clothes, flirts and drinks too much, she must take some of the blame if she's raped. Then a court in Swansea acquitted a man accused of raping a young student because she admitted being so drunk she could not remember whether she had consented or not and thereby fatally undermined the case for the prosecution.

Janet Street-Porter: We are second-class citizens

Published: 24 November 2005

It is perfectly clear that not only does the glass ceiling still exist, it feels like it has concrete reinforcements

Editor-At-Large: Spare me the pine nuts. I'm sick to death of cancer cures

Published: 20 November 2005

When you think of the diet that our parents had - loads of stodge, potatoes and red meat washed down with beer and followed by a pack of Woodbines - I just don't know how they made it past 40

Editor-At-Large: Michael Moore: the man, the myth, the millions. The pizza

Published: 13 November 2005

Whatever happened to Michael Moore, the man who told us his mission in life was to stop President George Bush getting re-elected? The man who loathed Bush so much he spent millions of dollars making a film, Fahrenheit 9/11, the main purpose of which was to discredit the President. The man who went on national television and relentlessly toured the US begging people to vote the Republicans out of office. Moore never missed an opportunity to ram home the fact that he sought nothing less than total humiliation for Dubya. But since Bush was returned to the White House, Moore has been strangely silent - obviously he found the result extremely unpalatable, and Moore is not someone who likes to lose an argument. At 20 stone plus, the largest man in movies is pretty hard to miss. But, apart from launching a film festival in a remote part of Michigan a couple of months ago, he seems to have vanished into thin air. There were stories that he'd been shacked up at a Florida fat farm trying to lose weight. There were rumours that he's toured New Orleans after Katrina, but reading his website, it's clear that while keen to rally support for the homeless and jobless, he was not actually there in person.

Janet Street-Porter: Why do we neglect the young?

Published: 10 November 2005

If a child can't read and write they are left way behind, marked out socially as losers and stigmatised

Editor-At-Large: A little light husband-bashing: just another day in a rotten trade

Published: 06 November 2005

There was a supreme irony that the movie chosen to close the London Film Festival was Good Night, and Good Luck, the highly acclaimed docudrama co-written and directed by George Clooney. Ironic because the film is about a historic moment in journalism, the time when Ed Murrow, the highly respected television presenter, took on Senator Joe McCarthy in his weekly TV documentary series broadcast on CBS. Ed Murrow's brave and principled stand against bullying and hypocrisy tackled McCarthy's tactics head on at a time when the American media, in print, radio and on television, shied away from confronting a man determined to eliminate free speech in his crusade to stamp out what he saw as the ultimate threat to America, Communism.

Janet Street-Porter: Prada shoes and pointless dress codes

Published: 03 November 2005

The notion that you can judge people by their clothes in modern Britain is ludicrous

Editor-At-Large: Over 50, overweight and want a good job? Fat chance

Published: 30 October 2005

"When you've a poor education, no cooking skills and think nutrition is a cream you slap on your face, counting calories, choosing fresh veg over frozen and cos lettuce over chips is a non-starter "

Janet Street-Porter: Who cares what colour you are in the arts?

Published: 27 October 2005

Instead of waffling about 'exclusion' David Lammy should be singing from the rooftops about British talent

Editor-At-Large: Carol Thatcher gets my vote as the Queen of the Jungle

Published: 23 October 2005

"The producers of 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here' need people who aren't going to get on - hence me and Burrell (actually, me and anyone). They also need someone who'll get their kit off"

Janet Street-Porter: The art of power and excitement

Published: 20 October 2005

All the creative energy seems to have slipped from fashion and focused instead on art

Editor-At-Large: Is anyone more irritating and self-satisfied than Madonna?

Published: 16 October 2005

What she calls her 'business entities' have one aim, and that is to sell her latest offerings, be they children's books, DVDs, concert tickets or albums. Madonna is about pushing product, pure and simple

Janet Street-Porter: The BBC should stop trying to do it all

Published: 13 October 2005

How many versions of the News at 6 pm can one crowded island need?

Editor-At-Large: Dish of the day - macho male chef, kebabbed

Published: 09 October 2005

The only time I ate in an establishment owned by the fashionable chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, we refused to leave a tip and left without eating. Around the corner from my house in Clerkenwell, Mr Novelli had decided to expand his expensive restaurant with a brasserie serving simpler fare. After waiting for half an

Janet Street-Porter: Forget the perfect diet, just eat less

Published: 06 October 2005

Saying no is easier, and far more fashionable, than saying I'd like just a little

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