Who'd be a mother these days? Forget the exhaustion of broken sleep, it's all the arguments and wrangling over what's right and wrong that looks most painful.
In a week when expectant mothers were told they should actually be dieting rather than eating for two and when celebrity...
(5) Comments | Posted 13 May 2012 | 00:00
Poor David Cameron, he's not going to live this one down in a hurry, is he? Forget messing up the budget, turning off women voters, strikes across the country and a dismal showing in the local council elections. His greatest embarrassment right now, and if we dare to speculate, for...
(4) Comments | Posted 6 May 2012 | 10:18
On Thursday, I came off air after half an hour on the Sky News sofa, to one marriage proposal and one admonishment telling me I was far too young to be doing my job, as I looked about 12 - both messages delivered via Twitter. (Plus, a text message from...
(0) Comments | Posted 29 April 2012 | 00:00
On Friday morning, I was nearing the end of an hour-long meeting with our HR team, when one of my team knocked on the window, calmly waited for me to pop my head round the door and said we all needed to leave the building immediately because there was a...
(3) Comments | Posted 22 April 2012 | 00:00
'Ceeya Ceefax' ran the Sun's headline as this week's official switchover to digital TV spelt the end of the television-based information and news service. Checked weekly at its peak in the Nineties by around a third of the British population, the retro news pages - the world's first app possibly?...
(2) Comments | Posted 15 April 2012 | 00:00
Britain might be in recession, or on the brink of it, or just recovering from it, depending on which economist/s you're inclined to believe, but that didn't stop the nation reaching into its collective pocket on Saturday to have a flutter on the Grand National and FA Cup Semi-Final.
...(5) Comments | Posted 8 April 2012 | 00:00
On Easter Sunday, as we celebrate new beginnings, Britain appears gripped by attitudes of a bygone era.
It has only been three months since the Stephen Lawrence trial finally ended, bringing to a close nearly two decades of pain for his family, and along the way uncovering a culture of...
(3) Comments | Posted 1 April 2012 | 00:00
This week, hundreds of the globe's greatest brains descended on Oxford for the Skoll World Forum, which annually celebrates social entrepreneurship, and this year set out to discuss how we can seize momentum to drive change.
Over three days, academics, CEOs, journalists, philanthropists, charity workers and students debated a diverse...
(9) Comments | Posted 24 March 2012 | 23:00
Can we all agree we're bored of the budget, that the hashtag #grannytax was definitely not the reason Twitter was invented, and move onto the real story of the week: Tulisa's sex tape.
No, of course you haven't watched it! You and everyone else in the office, I'll bet.
Except,...
(2) Comments | Posted 17 March 2012 | 23:00
As mothers across Britain wake up this morning to bunches of flowers, breakfast in bed and handmade cards, it seems appropriate that one of the biggest news stories of the past week was the sharp increase in the number of women taking up board positions across the UK.
...(2) Comments | Posted 14 March 2012 | 23:00
Today I'm delighted to announce the launch of HuffPost UK Sport, the latest channel on our ever-expanding site.
With London gearing up for the Olympics and Euro 2012 only a few months away, it couldn't be a better time for us to add Sport into the mix of...
(6) Comments | Posted 10 March 2012 | 23:00
If war is a psychological game as much as a military one, this week in Afghanistan we suffered one of our biggest set-backs. The numbers add up to a painful equation. Six men dead. The single largest loss of British life in a single incident in Afghanistan since 2006. The...
(12) Comments | Posted 7 March 2012 | 23:00
Across the world today we celebrate the 101st International Women's Day. Back when it started, women didn't have the vote, didn't have equal pay and certainly didn't have the freedoms we currently enjoy, but it's unfortunately as relevant today as it was then, and here's just a small example of...
(2) Comments | Posted 3 March 2012 | 23:00
On Friday evening, as I collected up the week's detritus from around my desk and scribbled some eyeliner on in a shortcut excuse for day-to-night makeover, a voice from the TV screens we have positioned across our news room distracted me. The British photo-journalist Paul Conroy was being interviewed on...
(5) Comments | Posted 25 February 2012 | 23:00
It was a week of small victories for the Right to Work campaign, starting last weekend with the temporary closure of a small Tesco store in Westminster that had been encircled by its protestors, continuing with the supermarket chain's subsequent decision to pay people on the government's controversial (as it...
(1) Comments | Posted 22 February 2012 | 23:00
Everyone complains that January is the most depressing month of the year, but quite frankly I'm still enjoying the post-Christmas buzz and doing my level best, usually fairly successfully, to lure as many friends off the detox bandwagon as possible to get too down at the beginning of the year.
...(11) Comments | Posted 18 February 2012 | 23:00
No matter how many press releases you pen, how many interviews you give, or how much spin your experts can generate, sometimes there's no substitute for appearing in person, something Rupert Murdoch and David Cameron took to heart this week, flying into and out of London respectively to rouse the...
(5) Comments | Posted 11 February 2012 | 23:00
It's not every week that you find yourself part of the news you're usually reporting, but on Wednesday, rather than watching the Leveson Inquiry, I was in front of it instead.
Not, you'll be relieved to hear that there was any of the high drama of Daily Mail...
(2) Comments | Posted 4 February 2012 | 23:00
Say what you like, when the British get it wrong, we're pretty good at holding up our hands and admitting it. Or, maybe slightly closer to the truth, when we've been found out and can't deny it any longer, then we're okay about taking the punishment that comes our way.
...(2) Comments | Posted 28 January 2012 | 23:00
Everything in moderation, isn't that how the saying goes? If a week can be summarised by its headlines, this week it was everything in moderation except bonuses and fast-food.
The remuneration packages offered to Britain's fat cats are hardly a new topic of contention, but RBS chief executive Stephen Hester...

(4) Comments | Posted 20 May 2012 | 00:00