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'Everything is in ruins'

Viv Groskop — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:30:27 GMT

The war with Russia last August has devastated Georgia: work and even food are now scarce. And Georgians fear that worse is to come

Brand me!

Viv Groskop — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:21:28 GMT

From Michelle Obama and David Miliband to top athletes and business people, successful 21st-century figures appear to have the knack of branding themselves. Should we be following their lead?

Not for sale

Viv Groskop — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Human trafficking is a $30bn a year global business. Now an influential group of women - politicians, actresses and singers - wants the fight against the trade at the top of the international agenda

Gender and agendas

Viv Groskop — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls and the Real Difference Between the Sexes Susan Pinker Atlantic Books, 336pp, �12.99

Can't stop the music

Viv Groskop — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Woody Allen regards Scarlett Johansson as a muse and has cast her in two films, comparing her to Marilyn Monroe

More scary toddler tales

Viv Groskop — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

What is the truth about children put into nurseries at a young age

Celebrity in cyberspace

Viv Groskop — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Poor old newspapers, TV and magazines have to compete with people posting celebrity sightings, downloads to YouTube and "citizen-papped" mobile-phone photos

Keeping an eye on the teenagers

Viv Groskop — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT

There is a deep unease towards teenagers at the moment. Perhaps it is a backlash against the laissez-faire child-rearing of the 1970s

Fugly rumours

Viv Groskop — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Observations on celebrity

The McCann case is all in our minds

Viv Groskop — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT

Now the idea that "the parents might have done it" has been officially introduced, the speculation has gone stratospheric