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: Biggs is the darling of Fleet Street. When he goes, it goes
The clue to a person's age is not hands so much as precious cultural references. The outstanding age indicator of these past days has been the media coverage of Ronnie Biggs. The name means little if you are under 40. Yet the front pages of most newspapers carried heartfelt coverage of the villain's final release from prison on the 46th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery.
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Sarah Sands: Jude must learn the first Law of affairs
Sunday, 2 August 2009
The appeal to Jude Law of playing Hamlet must have been the absence of vulgarity. In the darkness of the auditorium he would be treated as a theatre actor rather than a soap opera. And, indeed, his performance was textbook perfect – a little cautiously so. I noticed he had a graceful athleticism about him, but put that to the back of my mind.
Sarah Sands: For the war poets 'de nos jours', look no further than the City
Sunday, 26 July 2009
A topic at literary festivals and book launches is: where are our war poets? Maybe our writers have been captivated by an even larger story. The reason the Ministry of Defence cannot send more helicopters to Afghanistan is that it is flat broke, like every other department.
Sarah Sands: It's showbiz, Arlene, not a human rights crusade
Sunday, 19 July 2009
The sacking of the 66-year-old Arlene Phillips as a Strictly Come Dancing judge is described as "absolutely shocking" by the Equalities Minister Harriet Harman, who has been much more sanguine in her assessment of the benefits of the war in Afghanistan. These are the priorities of our age.
Sarah Sands: A world without men? Easy. But if there were no women, what then?
Sunday, 12 July 2009
The prospect of a single-sex society raised by a scientific breakthrough leads our writer to consider a world of pizza boxes and clothes on the carpet
Sarah Sands: Passion, drama, agony: a British institution in the making
Sunday, 5 July 2009
On Friday evening, even as Scotland's latest most famous son saw his dreams dissolve at Wimbledon, the country's adopted daughter played out hers at Leicester Square.
Sarah Sands: Will old goat be on the menu at Berlusconi's summit?
Sunday, 28 June 2009
A petition by Italian women academics that calls on wives of G8 leaders to boycott the forthcoming summit in Italy as a protest against the behaviour of President Berlusconi is gaining signatures. The main topic on the agenda of the L'Aquila summit in July is the stabilisation of Afghanistan, but the chief subject of conversation is likely to be the heroically/disgracefully goatish behaviour of Silvio Berlusconi.
Sarah Sands: Revered, powerful, serious - so thrillingly ripe for ridicule
Sunday, 21 June 2009
A criticism made of Sacha Baron Cohen is that he picks easy targets. It is not hard to portray American rednecks or Austrians in an unflattering light, although it is fiendishly difficult to create characters of comic genius, such as Ali G and Bruno.
Sarah Sands: To run a store, it helps to break the bank first
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Why the man who sank HBOS is walking tall again
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.
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