Laura Tennant

Articles by Laura Tennant

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What Becomes

  • 06 August 2009

The dark side of love

Speak what we feel

  • 26 March 2009

Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? Jane Haynes Constable & Robinson, 352pp, £7.99

Can we ever learn to love our bodies?

  • 05 February 2009
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Thirty years ago Fat Is a Feminist Issue railed against dieting and the media's tormenting stream of idealised body shapes. It did a fine job of raising consciousness, yet today the situation is even worse. In a new study, Susie Orbach tries to understand why.

Bang, bang, you're Dad

  • 22 January 2009

Granta 104 Edited by Alex Clark Granta, 256pp, £10.99

Cooking the books

  • 16 October 2006

Laura Tennant says fancy recipes won't help you answer the question: What's for supper?

Drink - Laura Tennant does not enjoy a wineless supper

  • 22 May 2006

I've found, since starting my diet, that a wineless supper is a dismal meal

Foolish females

  • 01 May 2006

Eating Myself Candida Crewe Bloomsbury, 241pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747577552

NS Essay - 'Marriage has been tragically unfashionable among the left-leaning classes since the 1970s - but what if it's actually our best chance of happiness?'

  • 27 March 2006

Fish still don't need bicycles. But maybe women do need men after all. Laura Tennant examines the case for husbands and finds it surprisingly strong

Drink - Laura Tennant marvels at the miracle of a glass of fizz

  • 09 January 2006

From parties to sales shopping, few things aren't enhanced by a glass of fizz

Out in the cold

  • 17 October 2005

Nobody's Child Kate Adie Hodder & Stoughton, 324pp, £20 ISBN 0340838000

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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