The Times | Caitlin Moran

Giving money to charity is one of my favourite things: it says so much

Do you give Big Issue vendors £2? Or do you brush past, hissing, "Get someone better than Vernon Kay on the cover"?

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I’ve discovered that columnists exist for mad people to write letters to once they’ve finished writing to newsreaders

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News that teenage girls stuff themselves with junk food shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s suffered the strains of being one

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The walnut parquet floor of Salvation Army Hall was saved, and everyone felt a rare sense of community at the supermarket

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Hurray, the ‘stars’ are revolting

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If adults don’t play silly games once in a while they go all wrong

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Which new words have entered my life during the past year, and which new cliches have I come lazily to depend on?

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That a chaotic popinjay became a lightning rod for the Corporation was unfortunate for them — and for him

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A radio DJ has lost his job for interrupting Her Majesty’s speech and call it dull. But let’s face it, he was right

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