Sarah Sands: Evil is in the eye of the beholder

Published: 30 September 2007

What kind of person sees pornography in Nan Goldin's beautiful photographs of naked children?

Sarah Sands: The boss is always right. Just remember who the boss is

Published: 23 September 2007

Let us remind ourselves that Jose Mourinho's title, "The Special One", was not bestowed on him by his fans. He came up with it himself. "There is God, there is Jesus and then there is me," he said.

Sarah Sands: It's not being 44 that is Demi Moore's problem

Published: 16 September 2007

Despite her expensively preserved beauty, Demi Moore, 44, complains that acting parts are drying up. "There aren't that many roles for women over 40," she said last week. "A lot of them don't have much substance other than being someone's mother or wife." Thus, she writes off Lady Macbeth, Mother Courage, Hedda Gabler and Medea. Also, the timing of her complaint is clumsy. Michelle Pfeiffer is glorious in her latest film, Stardust, playing a several-hundred-year- old witch.

Sarah Sands: We can save them, but we do not care for them

Published: 09 September 2007

There is a familiar form of words that follows the deaths of British soldiers. It ends with the shatteringly bleak little phrase: "Next of kin have been informed."

Sarah Sands: Harry has rescued the 'People's Princess' from the howling mob

Published: 02 September 2007

The younger of the princes is the one least afraid of showing emotion, but both must be more damaged than we have assumed

Sarah Sands: It is the mothers who feel the pity and waste of war

Published: 26 August 2007

Even before Iraq became a hydra-headed beast, Army recruitment was falling. Mothers had starting dragging their feet about the discomfort and the discipline.

Sarah Sands: A land unfit for heroes: the betrayal of Britain's troops

Published: 19 August 2007

The treatment of soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan is a national disgrace

Sarah Sands: Women want... different things at different times

Published: 12 August 2007

A sense of humour, a romantic streak, brute strength, a lively mind - they all help, but there is no such thing as the perfect man

Sarah Sands: Just as charm goes out of style, Hillary comes good

Published: 05 August 2007

After years of trying to be popular with a variety of female stereotypes, Clinton has found that being genderless wins votes

Sarah Sands: Magnificent, but preposterous Conrad Black: the end of an era

Published: 15 July 2007

Nobody believed that Conrad Black would get off but, looking at his enemies, some had a slight hope that he might. The former deputy editor of one of his papers says he's not the monster he's painted

Sarah Sands: Welcome to Mr Brown's most humble Britain, Mr Johnston

Published: 08 July 2007

After 10 years of Tony Blair the cultural landscape of Britain changed. His supporters say that he left the country a more diverse and tolerant place. I would argue that he yanked us all along on his spiritual journey towards Catholicism. By the time he reached Rome to see the Pope he was practically speaking in Latin. He became Father of this Blessed nation.

Sarah Sands: So the Home Secretary is a woman. That's no big deal

Published: 01 July 2007

The new Cabinet was announced as if Gordon Brown were a circus master. Let us hear it for the youngest foreign secretary for ages and the first woman home secretary ever! Ladies and gentleman, I give you the Miliband Brothers, who spookily resemble the young Brown as well as each other.

Sarah Sands: We drank Tina's champagne. But we gave her a kicking

Published: 24 June 2007

It's not tall poppy syndrome. It is the nearest we get to patriotism

Sarah Sands: Women fly fighter jets. So why shouldn't they read the news?

Published: 17 June 2007

A senior male journalist I knew in Fleet Street days used to have nightmares that women in red jackets were taking over. Somehow the red jacket signified pertness combined with ruthlessness. The red jacket was a code for dumbing down.

Sarah Sands: Dutch women don't get depressed. We do. Discuss

Published: 10 June 2007

Following French Women Don't Get Fat comes Dutch Women Don't Get Depressed. My jaundiced publishing friend who suggests a trilogy with English Women Don't Get Laid, misunderstands the perky imperative of the original concept.

Sarah Sands: The agony and the blasphemy

Published: 03 June 2007

In talking about Camilla, no holds are barred. But such is our reverence for the dead Diana that we dare not speak ill of her. Two new Channel 4 documentaries reveal further contrasts. At one time the glamorous Diana seemed to be just what the Royal Family needed. Now, however, it is the Duchess of Cornwall who might rescue the monarchy

Sarah Sands: The curious world of the aristos too rich to be bothered

Published: 27 May 2007

The murdered Earl of Shaftesbury was as lost as the rest of the charming, feckless, unemployable nobility

Sarah Sands: We never loved her. She wasn't surprised

Published: 13 May 2007

As the burden of office slipped from him, Tony Blair seemed to regain the charm of his youth. His eyes were brighter, his make-up peachy, his churchy apology for falling short, disarming. His wife, on the other hand, showed the wear and tear of 10 years in Downing Street. There was a menopausal heaviness about her, a weariness from the batter of insults. She made no lastditch attempt at a reckless outfit or an expensive blow dry. Cherie Blair knew that she was never going to capture the hearts of the British people. If Tony Blair was the indulged son, she was the unwelcome daughter-in-law.