Decca Aitkenhead
Articles by Decca Aitkenhead
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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
