Decca Aitkenhead

Books

Mean streets

• 08 December 2003

Random Family: love, drugs, trouble and coming of age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Flamingo, 408pp, £17.99
ISBN 0007163444

Books

Grandmother's footsteps. Sex and the City, Bridget Jones and ever new ways of dating - young women are still obsessed with finding a man at all costs. Decca Aitkenhead on why nobody wants to be a thirtysomething singleton today

• 18 August 2003

Modern Love: an intimate history of men and women in twentieth-century Britain
Marcus Collins Atlantic Books, 294pp, £19.99
ISBN 1903809215

World Affairs

Can you tame the tourist?

• 11 August 2003

Venice wants to fine its visitors into being better behaved. Some hope, writes Decca Aitkenhead

Politics

''Labour, Tory? It's hard to say, innit?''

• 14 July 2003

Is the country really fed up with Tony Blair? And if so, can people swallow Gordon Brown instead? Decca Aitkenhead penetrated deepest Essex in search of answers

Books

The cool hunters. Decca Aitkenhead on the corporate takeover of childhood

• 14 April 2003

Branded
Alissa Quart Arrow, 288pp, £7.99
ISBN 0099458063

Why Are They So Weird?
Barbara Strauch Bloomsbury, 241pp, £10.99

World Affairs

Murder in Jamaica

• 31 March 2003

When fear of crime overrides respect for human rights, the results can be lethal

Politics

A fiver to drive? It's the Blitz again

• 10 February 2003

False number plates, home-made bombs: opponents of London's congestion charge have lots of ideas - except for other ways of cutting traffic

My friend announces he's getting married. "What's she like?" I ask. "She'll be a very good first wife," he says

• 28 January 2002

Crack dealers can't wait until we have ID cards. They'll be so much cheaper than buying a fake passport

• 08 October 2001

Books

Live to eat

• 01 October 2001

Happy Days with the Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph, 320pp, £20
ISBN 0718144848