Kira Cochrane

Kira Cochrane

Kira Cochrane is the women's editor for the Guardian and writes a regular column in the New Statesman.

Articles by Kira Cochrane

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And it's goodbye to all that . . .

  • 03 July 2008
  • 1 comment

I didn't want my boyfriend to glance into the study one day to find a pile of ash beside smouldering cowboy boots

Are gender stereotypes boring?

  • 19 June 2008
  • 3 comments

Suggestions one sex is more intelligent, witty, sympathetic, moral or interesting than the other do tend to be objectionable

Retrosexual, or just misogynist?

  • 05 June 2008
  • 3 comments

There is still a long way to go to full equality, and we have seen the culture regress in some ways

Sleep deprivation is no badge of honour

  • 22 May 2008
  • 1 comment

The ability to cope without sleep has been seen as the main mark of a leader for some years now: a signifier of toughness, machismo, strong-mindedness

Angry Anna shows us how to age

  • 08 May 2008

While the older generation bears the brunt of pernicious ageism, a fear of being considered old infects society as a whole

The "sweetie" problem

  • 10 April 2008

Language is a mutable, fluid construct, open to the vagaries of context, and that's the way I like it

Pets? I should Coco

  • 27 March 2008
  • 1 comment

My cat never bothers me with her suspicions about her cheating boyfriend

Your library: use it or lose it

  • 13 March 2008

Now, more than ever, libraries need support, including whatever investment or bold financial planning is needed to take them forward

Who would be a teenager now?

  • 28 February 2008
  • 1 comment

Yes, some teenagers are unruly, even violent but rather than single out those actually causing trouble, we lump them all together

A brand called you and me

  • 31 January 2008
  • 4 comments

A poorly educated country girl was going to be nowhere near as lucrative as what she could be made to represent - that contradictory concept of the "slutty virgin"

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

Banksy

A con artist?

Rebel? Banksy doesn't know the meaning of the word.

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