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Eleanor Margolis is a freelance journalist, whose column "Lez Miserable" appears weekly on the New Statesman website. She tweets @eleanormargolis.

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Lez Miserable: "Ooh, look at that one - it's got veins!"
11 March 2013

Meet our new columnist, Eleanor Margolis, as she takes a frank, funny and cynical tour through life as a twentysomething lesbian. In her first piece, her vibrator bites the dust, and her mother is keen to help her replace it.

Cultural Capital
Why the birds are angry
18 September 2011

Listen up, Glenn Beck: Angry Birds is a socialist analogy

Business
UBS hit by rogue trader
15 September 2011

A UBS worker has been arrested on suspicion of fraud.

Culture
Where have all the protest songs gone?
09 September 2011

There was a time when we didn't recoil when the music got political.

Business
Chancellor urged to stick to debt reduction plans
09 September 2011

The OECD has backed George Osborne's plan to reduce debt, but warns that the economy will stagnate.

Business
Yahoo! Chief Executive fired "over the phone"
07 September 2011

As Yahoo!'s growth stagnates, Chieif Executive Carol Bartz has been fired.

Business
Dixons group reports sales slump
07 September 2011

Dixons Retail falls into a slump, amidst fears that high street retail is in decline.

Politics
Chancellor called on to scrap "damaging" 50p tax rate
07 September 2011

A group of high-profile business experts urge George Osborne to rethink the income tax rate.

Newspapers
News International to sell Wapping Site
06 September 2011

Rupert Murdoch's News Internatioanl East London headquarters begin relocating.

Business
UK car sales see the first rise in 14 months
06 September 2011

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) report the first rise in car sales for over a

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