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</header> <div class="content"> <div class="row" data-tb-region="row-1"><article data-weight="2" class="weight-2"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facebook-instagram-twitter-social-media-makes-sad-lonely-attention-seekers-a7614396.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20170308054815im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size2/public/thumbnails/image/2017/03/03/13/social-media.jpg');"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facebook-instagram-twitter-social-media-makes-sad-lonely-attention-seekers-a7614396.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facebook-instagram-twitter-social-media-makes-sad-lonely-attention-seekers-a7614396.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Of course social media is full of sad, lonely people</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>We all know that Pinterest users don't really crave actual breathing social contact – they prefer to sit alone, waiting for death, in a room that smells of guinea pig bedding, pinning endless photos of Audrey Hepburn to a virtual scrapbook</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story " data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20170308054815im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2017/02/27/11/oscars.jpg');"> <a 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href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/david-beckham-emails-bbc-graham-norton-show-knighthood-a7565571.html"> <span class="image" style="background-image: url('https://web.archive.org/web/20170308054815im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/storylist/public/thumbnails/image/2017/02/06/10/david-beckham-graham-norton.jpg');"></span> <h2><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> David Beckham's email scandal will not finish off our Golden Balls</h2> </a> </li> </ul> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu0" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-2"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu1" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " 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state visit for Trump</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-osborne-blackrock-investment-institute-money-banker-group-theresa-may-a7542031.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/17/17/george-osborne.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-osborne-blackrock-investment-institute-money-banker-group-theresa-may-a7542031.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-osborne-blackrock-investment-institute-money-banker-group-theresa-may-a7542031.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Surprised by Osborne's new job with BlackRock? You shouldn't be</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-piers-morgan-kanye-west-katie-hopkins-donald-trump-supporter-money-to-be-made-a7529811.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2017/01/02/13/nigel-farage-0.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-piers-morgan-kanye-west-katie-hopkins-donald-trump-supporter-money-to-be-made-a7529811.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-piers-morgan-kanye-west-katie-hopkins-donald-trump-supporter-money-to-be-made-a7529811.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Farage knows there's money to be made in acting like a Trump supporter</a></h1> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-3"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/golden-globes-meryl-streep-donald-trump-people-in-dresses-a7517151.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2017/01/09/09/meryl-streep-golden-globes.jpg"> <a 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class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> For Brexiteers, replacing cod with squid will be the final straw</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu2" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-4"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pewdiepie-youtube-vlogger-star-threatens-delete-channel-created-monsters-reap-what-sown-a7457006.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cl lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2015/10/22/17/pewdiepie.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pewdiepie-youtube-vlogger-star-threatens-delete-channel-created-monsters-reap-what-sown-a7457006.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pewdiepie-youtube-vlogger-star-threatens-delete-channel-created-monsters-reap-what-sown-a7457006.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> YouTube created monsters like PewDiePie – they deserve what they get</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>YouTube helped in no small part to create these gremlins. If PewDiePie is now saying vocally – which he does in his last video – that he could run YouTube better than the powers that be can and he’s on the verge of pressing delete on his account, then this mutiny was always in the making</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ed-balls-strictly-come-dancing-politics-donald-trump-nigel-farage-samba-a7443686.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/20/10/ed-balls-strictly.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ed-balls-strictly-come-dancing-politics-donald-trump-nigel-farage-samba-a7443686.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ed-balls-strictly-come-dancing-politics-donald-trump-nigel-farage-samba-a7443686.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Ed Balls – please stick to dancing and abandon a political comeback</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>As if encouraging voters with no previous distinct leaning to root for characters they’ve become familiar with in reality shows has not caused enough trouble in 2016 already? Trump’s time on <em>The Apprentice</em> cajoled a nation into believing he really does have the answers for everything</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-feminist-fig-leaf-regressive-policies-a7430051.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/18/12/ivanka-trump-1.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-feminist-fig-leaf-regressive-policies-a7430051.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-feminist-fig-leaf-regressive-policies-a7430051.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Ivanka Trump is a pseudo-feminist fig leaf for her father's politics</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>Her ‘Women Who Work’ initiative is the most risible heap of non-inclusive, beyond parody, bum-chunder since Gwyneth Paltow’s Goop newsletter – and I laugh up a kidney at that once a week</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-abortion-pro-life-pro-choice-equality-us-presidential-election-women-a7416611.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/14/06/trump-cbs.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-abortion-pro-life-pro-choice-equality-us-presidential-election-women-a7416611.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-abortion-pro-life-pro-choice-equality-us-presidential-election-women-a7416611.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Donald Trump, like his supporters, isn't pro-life – he's anti-women </a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>Trump has never experienced a long, spirit-zapping and bank-breaking clandestine public transport journey across Mississippi to the state’s one remaining clinic to secure life-changing treatment. He would prefer that clinic – now serving 1.5 million women – was closed and the woman travelled further</p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-5"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/im-a-celebrity-is-the-ultimate-brexit-voters-show-a-gross-spectacle-of-people-starving-and-bullying-a7403331.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/06/17/im-a-celebrity.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/im-a-celebrity-is-the-ultimate-brexit-voters-show-a-gross-spectacle-of-people-starving-and-bullying-a7403331.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/im-a-celebrity-is-the-ultimate-brexit-voters-show-a-gross-spectacle-of-people-starving-and-bullying-a7403331.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> I'm A Celebrity is the ultimate Brexit voters' show</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hilary-duff-jason-walsh-halloween-outfits-costume-native-american-red-indian-pilgrim-cultural-a7389191.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/31/09/hilary-duff-jason-walsh.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hilary-duff-jason-walsh-halloween-outfits-costume-native-american-red-indian-pilgrim-cultural-a7389191.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hilary-duff-jason-walsh-halloween-outfits-costume-native-american-red-indian-pilgrim-cultural-a7389191.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Hilary Duff’s Halloween costume faux pas wasn’t malicious</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-male-pill-contraception-pregnancy-scientific-advancement-sperm-a7378031.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/04/25/13/sperm-2.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-male-pill-contraception-pregnancy-scientific-advancement-sperm-a7378031.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-male-pill-contraception-pregnancy-scientific-advancement-sperm-a7378031.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> The Male Pill – an excuse for men to remain bachelors for longer</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu3" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-6"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/al-smith-dinner-trump-roast-clinton-how-bizarre-its-become-a7374141.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/21/13/hillary-donald-6.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/al-smith-dinner-trump-roast-clinton-how-bizarre-its-become-a7374141.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/al-smith-dinner-trump-roast-clinton-how-bizarre-its-become-a7374141.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> The Al Smith dinner shows just how bizarre the US election has become</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>It’s weird to ask Clinton and Trump to bicker viciously on Wednesday over who needs to be jailed and who is a sexual predator and then follow it up with an annual Catholic fundraiser dinner for needy children</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicki-minaj-melania-trump-dragging-twitter-better-pray-a7365951.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/14/07/melania-trump.gif"> <span class="icon-play medium"></span> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicki-minaj-melania-trump-dragging-twitter-better-pray-a7365951.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicki-minaj-melania-trump-dragging-twitter-better-pray-a7365951.html"><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Nicki Minaj is right – pray we don't get stuck with First Lady Trump</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>The terrifying thing is many of us thought we’d seen the back of the likes of Melania. But her type is back, draped over American politics like a bikini model at a Birmingham NEC car show </p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-baby-boomer-male-backslapping-official-reached-nadir-a7361441.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/13/18/bob-dylan-1.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-baby-boomer-male-backslapping-official-reached-nadir-a7361441.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bob-dylan-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-baby-boomer-male-backslapping-official-reached-nadir-a7361441.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> It’s official: Baby Boomer male backslapping has reached its nadir</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>I’ve tried to find Dylan godly, really tried, but to the unloving ear he sounds like a man with a bronchial infection arduously describing his favourite commute</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-sexual-assault-bill-clinton-hillary-us-presidential-debate-male-infidelity-juanita-a7354226.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/10/11/presidential-trump-4.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-sexual-assault-bill-clinton-hillary-us-presidential-debate-male-infidelity-juanita-a7354226.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-sexual-assault-bill-clinton-hillary-us-presidential-debate-male-infidelity-juanita-a7354226.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Clinton, like all women, cannot win in the face of male infidelity</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>If the wife stays she’s a doormat or a schemer, or a Lady Macbeth egging on his wicked behaviour. Yet if she leaves and files for divorce she’s a gold-digger who's out to wreck a good family in the courts</p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-7"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-steven-woolfe-mike-hookem-ukip-fight-altercation-hospital-european-parliament-one-of-a7350681.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/06/14/gettyimages-465210234.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-steven-woolfe-mike-hookem-ukip-fight-altercation-hospital-european-parliament-one-of-a7350681.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-steven-woolfe-mike-hookem-ukip-fight-altercation-hospital-european-parliament-one-of-a7350681.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Nigel Farage shouldn’t write off the Steven Woolfe incident so soon</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/30yearsoftheindependent/beyonc-changes-her-name-a7349436.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/06/13/4356418.png"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/30yearsoftheindependent/beyonc-changes-her-name-a7349436.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/30yearsoftheindependent/beyonc-changes-her-name-a7349436.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span>Beyoncé changes her name</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/andrea-leadsom-tory-conference-speech-eu-migrants-brexit-fruit-picking-farm-work-outrage-theresa-may-a7344826.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/03/08/andrea-leadsom.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/andrea-leadsom-tory-conference-speech-eu-migrants-brexit-fruit-picking-farm-work-outrage-theresa-may-a7344826.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/andrea-leadsom-tory-conference-speech-eu-migrants-brexit-fruit-picking-farm-work-outrage-theresa-may-a7344826.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Only snobs would be outraged by Andrea Leadsom’s suggestions</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="ayl" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-8"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sober-for-october-charity-giving-baby-wearing-week-go-home-on-time-black-lives-matter-black-history-a7339326.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/26/12/north-east-skinny-dip.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sober-for-october-charity-giving-baby-wearing-week-go-home-on-time-black-lives-matter-black-history-a7339326.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sober-for-october-charity-giving-baby-wearing-week-go-home-on-time-black-lives-matter-black-history-a7339326.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Stop telling me you're going on holiday ‘for charity’</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>October also sees the start of Black History Month, an opportunity for Caucasian 20-something eternal students with names like Crispin Bunter-Wilmthorpe to handcuff themselves to the gates of Chessington World of Adventures after taking exception to the shocking level of cultural appropriation in the Penguins of Madagascar Treetop Hoppers ride</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-harriet-harman-labour-conference-leader-jeremy-corbyn-feminism-not-a-sister-asset-a7330586.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/10/16/pp-harriett-harman-getty.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-harriet-harman-labour-conference-leader-jeremy-corbyn-feminism-not-a-sister-asset-a7330586.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-harriet-harman-labour-conference-leader-jeremy-corbyn-feminism-not-a-sister-asset-a7330586.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Is Theresa May supposed to be offended that she's ‘not a sister’?</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>Believing in the innate empathetic, harmonious nature of all women is like believing all gay men will, when push comes to shove, be able to help you with interior design. At best you’re an idiot and at worse a completely offensive one</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joss-whedon-celebrities-james-franco-save-the-day-buffy-scarlett-johannson-don-cheadle-anti-donald-a7325821.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/21/14/save-the-day.jpg"> <span class="icon-play medium"></span> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joss-whedon-celebrities-james-franco-save-the-day-buffy-scarlett-johannson-don-cheadle-anti-donald-a7325821.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/joss-whedon-celebrities-james-franco-save-the-day-buffy-scarlett-johannson-don-cheadle-anti-donald-a7325821.html"><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Joss Whedon's latest anti-Trump project will spectacularly backfire</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>Remember when millions of people with no meaningful view on the EU referendum heard a multi-millionaire West Hampstead mega-star called Emma Thompson call Britain “a misery-laden cake-fuelled grey old island”? This is Whedon's Emma Thompson moment</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/now-london-has-come-53rd-in-the-global-liveability-report-its-time-we-concede-defeat-to-canada-and-a7316591.html" data-tb-region-item="4-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/07/04/17/justin-trudeau.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/now-london-has-come-53rd-in-the-global-liveability-report-its-time-we-concede-defeat-to-canada-and-a7316591.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/now-london-has-come-53rd-in-the-global-liveability-report-its-time-we-concede-defeat-to-canada-and-a7316591.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> London has come 53rd in the liveability report - I'm not surprised</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>It’s not just London doing badly in the liveability list, but other European cities such as Zurich, Geneva, Frankfurt, Berlin, Oslo, Luxembourg, Brussels, Paris, Rome and Lisbon</p> </div> </div> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-9"><article data-weight="4" class="weight-4"> <div class="grid-mod-titled-separator margin"> <h1 class="box-title"> More headlines </h1> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-10"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pornhub-youporn-russia-ban-millennials-porn-angry-sex-masturbation-generation-owes-them-orgasm-a7311266.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2014/10/09/10/pornhub2.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pornhub-youporn-russia-ban-millennials-porn-angry-sex-masturbation-generation-owes-them-orgasm-a7311266.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pornhub-youporn-russia-ban-millennials-porn-angry-sex-masturbation-generation-owes-them-orgasm-a7311266.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> No wonder millennials are angry Russia's banned Pornhub </a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-health-pneumonia-politicians-infallible-get-leaders-we-deserve-grace-dent-a7238211.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/12/11/hillary-clinton-12.jpg"> <span class="icon-play large"></span> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-health-pneumonia-politicians-infallible-get-leaders-we-deserve-grace-dent-a7238211.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-health-pneumonia-politicians-infallible-get-leaders-we-deserve-grace-dent-a7238211.html"><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> If we expect them to be infallible, we get the leaders we deserve</a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container grid-mod-story bottom-text grow-photo " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicola-sturgeon-miscarriage-childless-theresa-may-explain-it-to-anyone-a7227106.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/06/15/sturgeon-getty.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicola-sturgeon-miscarriage-childless-theresa-may-explain-it-to-anyone-a7227106.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicola-sturgeon-miscarriage-childless-theresa-may-explain-it-to-anyone-a7227106.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> Nicola Sturgeon shouldn’t have to explain her miscarriage to anyone </a></h1> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1" data-locked="true"> <div id="mpu5" class="grid-mod-single-mpu"> </div> </article></div><div class="row" data-tb-region="row-11"><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ive-found-myself-agreeing-with-jeremy-corbyn-about-the-toxic-after-work-drinks-culture-a7221756.html" data-tb-region-item="1-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-cc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/02/08/corbyn-women.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ive-found-myself-agreeing-with-jeremy-corbyn-about-the-toxic-after-work-drinks-culture-a7221756.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ive-found-myself-agreeing-with-jeremy-corbyn-about-the-toxic-after-work-drinks-culture-a7221756.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> I've found myself agreeing with Corbyn about toxic after-work drinks</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>The Labour leader is suggesting a ban on sexist after-work drinking. But how on earth do we police that? Should all after-work groups, by law, contain at least two women or at least one gender fluid person identifying as female? </p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/melvyn-bragg-the-matter-of-the-north-all-things-not-south-a7215331.html" data-tb-region-item="2-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/01/23/23/14-melvyn-bragg-bbc.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/melvyn-bragg-the-matter-of-the-north-all-things-not-south-a7215331.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/melvyn-bragg-the-matter-of-the-north-all-things-not-south-a7215331.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> I welcome Melvyn Bragg’s celebration of all things 'not South’</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>'The Matter of The North’ comes at a time when London has adored itself to a point of near self-destruction</p> </div> </div> </div> </article><article data-weight="1" class="weight-1"><div class="container-half grid-mod-half-story grid-mod-half-height " data-url="/web/20170308054815oe_/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/usain-bolt-bed-pictures-jady-duarte-rio-olympics-girlfriend-kasi-bennett-whatsapp-won-gold-medal-a7203946.html" data-tb-region-item="3-1"> <div class="image_wrapper"> <div class="image image-align-tc lazy" data-original="https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/size1_half/public/thumbnails/image/2016/08/22/13/usain-bolt.jpg"> <a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/usain-bolt-bed-pictures-jady-duarte-rio-olympics-girlfriend-kasi-bennett-whatsapp-won-gold-medal-a7203946.html"></a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="capsules" data-capsule-count="0"> <ul> <li class="shares"> <span class="icon-trending"></span> <span class="label"></span> </li> </ul> </div> <h1><a href="/web/20170308054815/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/usain-bolt-bed-pictures-jady-duarte-rio-olympics-girlfriend-kasi-bennett-whatsapp-won-gold-medal-a7203946.html"><span class="media-prefix "></span><span class="media-prefix voices">Grace Dent</span> The student whose pictures with Usain Bolt went viral has won gold</a></h1> <div class="lead"> <p>I thought of a joke here about Jady Duarte’s Bolt-In-My-Bed pictures spreading quicker than her ankles, but this would lead to me spending at least 72 hours fielding abuse from whining 19-year-old offendatrons claiming 'slut-shaming'</p> </div> </div> </div> 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