Hadley Freeman
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Tanya Sweeney: The most dispiriting celebrity interviews I have conducted
- People
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
If you haven’t had the pleasure yet, might I suggest you find yourself some internet and look up Leta Powell Drake. Last week, the celebrity interview(...)

Guardian axing its popular Saturday supplements is an odd decision
- TV, Radio, Web
- July 18, 2020, 07:00
If you’re looking at this on your phone, you may be one of those readers who has forsaken print or never picked up the habit of reading a physical new(...)

‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting
- Film
- May 29, 2020, 12:10
The film-maker was accused of sexually assaulting his daughter in 1992, but never charged. He explains why he is done treading carefully When Wo(...)

Tony Slattery: The abuse still weighs on me, after all this time
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 13, 2020, 06:00
Just as commercial pilots presumably can’t let themselves think too deeply about the environmental damage they cause by going to work, so I try not to(...)

House of Glass: An epic personal odyssey and indictment of official history
- Books
- April 29, 2020, 06:00
Consider this the non-fiction family history as potential Netflix saga, with dramatic opening scene already written and ready to shoot. The protagonis(...)

More of the same won’t keep England in World Cup
- International
- July 4, 2018, 18:37
Well, that was fun. After two hours of vivid, gruelling knockout football at the Spartak Stadium, England’s penalty shootout defeat of Colombia felt a(...)

Jennifer O'Connell: Creepy, Actually: Romcoms mistake harassment for romance
- People
- June 16, 2018, 06:00
There is a scene in Love Actually where Keira Knightley’s character is happily watching TV with her husband of just a few weeks, when the doorbell rin(...)

Quentin Tarantino has questions to answer about his Roman Polanski rape comments
- Film
- February 7, 2018, 16:15
It always seemed likely that the waves of disapproval kicked up by the Weinstein scandal would eventually reach Quentin Tarantino. The director made (...)

Have we traded in skinny for strong and stayed just as unhappy?
- People
- July 31, 2015, 06:00
‘Strong is the new skinny”, or at least that’s the mantra of those involved in a new movement born on social media and spread via the hashtags “fitspi(...)

Twitter introduces option to report abusive tweets
- Technology
- August 29, 2013, 06:48
Twitter has introduced a “report tweet” option for users who are sent abusive messages, following a campaign by a number of women who were targeted on(...)