Claire Rayner

Articles by Claire Rayner

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Diary - Claire Rayner

  • 03 March 2003

I have a confession: my publishers sold the serialisation of my book to the Daily Mail. I've always hated the Mail's politics but I read it every day to blow the steam out of my ears

Diary - Claire Rayner

  • 03 June 2002

Junk the Jubilee - If our monarch has become a fashion icon, heaven help us. I try to see myself in a pastel-coloured dress with matching coat, and feel ever so sick

"Darling," they say, "you look wonderful!" What they mean is, they thought I'd look gaunt after my cancer

  • 18 March 2002

Why we still need the matchmaker

  • 21 August 2000

Hormone-induced, romantic love is no basis for lifelong happiness, argues Claire Rayner

You say murder, I say euthanasia

  • 19 June 2000

How should we decide when you will die? Claire Raynerproposes a solution

Cleaners and clerks will save the NHS

  • 03 April 2000

Hospitals should bring back the staff who were sacrificed to efficiency, argues Claire Rayner

Girl zone

  • 11 October 1999

Whistling for the Elephants Sandy Toksvig Bantam, 300pp, £12.99 ISBN 0593044800

How the good news hit the spike

  • 26 July 1999

When a reporter found a successful NHS service, the editor didn't want to know

Bananas are better

  • 03 May 1999

The Improvised Woman Marcelle Clements W W Norton, 351pp, £18.95

Will the NHS still want me when I'm 65?

  • 19 April 1999

If you're going to have a heart attack or stroke, don't wait till you're old, warnsClaire Rayner

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President Cheney?

Get ready for President Cheney

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Tory foes

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Anarchism's failure

The World That Never Was: a True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

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