Sarah Sands

Sarah Sands enjoyed decade long tenures at the London Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph, before becoming the first female editor of the Sunday Telegraph in 2005. Her topical weekly column looks at social and cultural issues.

Sarah Sands: To run a store, it helps to break the bank first

Why the man who sank HBOS is walking tall again

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Sarah Sands: A two-minute video is all the truth I need

Sunday, 7 June 2009

The publisher Caroline Michel explained the new business model to me over lunch last week. The important thing to grasp was that a book was no longer the starting point. These days the deal could begin with something as instant as a video clip. The video clip could lead to a book. The book could lead to a film.

Sarah Sands: When the going gets tough, the cheap get going

Sunday, 31 May 2009

As thousands sweated over their university final exams last week, a grim employment survey suggested that openings for graduates were drying up. The bequest from parents is a generation of debt, an ocean full of plastic bags and empty of fish, a political establishment in a state of collapse. And Susan Boyle.

Sarah Sands: Michelle's front-page power is all in her warmth

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Magazines sell on the immediate appeal of their covers. If you were choosing a significant figure this week, you might consider Steven Chu, the US energy secretary. Then quickly pass over his photograph.

Sarah Sands: Farrah Fawcett excels in her role of a lifetime

Sunday, 17 May 2009

A popular current YouTube home video is of a chubby girl singing "Nobody's Perfect" in her bedroom while keeping an anxious eye out for her mother coming up the stairs. The appeal of the video lies in the irony that a million viewers are privy to the girl's secret life, while her mother is not.

Sarah Sands: Lumley for president? I'd keep the Queen

Sunday, 10 May 2009

She is magnificent, but too risky to wield power

Joan Smith and Sarah Sands: The Thatcher years: a giant leap for women or a big step back?

Sunday, 3 May 2009

The IoS columnists go head to head on the legacy of Britain's first female prime minister, who walked into Downing Street 30 years ago tomorrow

Sarah Sands: Television has shrivelled, and lost its big man

Sunday, 26 April 2009

Our columnist laments the departure from ITV of Michael Grade

Sarah Sands: Don't knock nepotism. It's relatively harmless

Sunday, 19 April 2009

The recession has coincided with an increase in nepotism at work, according to a report in the Financial Times last week. When you are hunkering down, you try to protect your own.

Sarah Sands: Martin Amis – a very good advertisement for sleep

Sunday, 12 April 2009

When truths are revealed by Martin Amis, they should be heeded. Here is an author who has made visionary pronouncements on masculinity, nuclear war and Islamic terrorism. Those who are granted Dalai Lama-style audiences with him feel the frisson of literary enlightenment the moment they cross his varnished oak floorboards and see the view from his light, so light, north London study.

Sarah Sands:'The Wire' leads television into a golden age

Sunday, 5 April 2009

It is a contest whether the liberal press is more infatuated with Barack Obama or the television series, The Wire. Once it was reported that The Wire was the President's favourite show, I thought the media might expire with happiness. True, 600,000 viewers on BBC2 is not an enormous audience. The Wire is on late, but not much later than Inbetweeners, the promising new teenage series on E4, which managed nearly a million.

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