Viv Groskop
Articles by Viv Groskop
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Europe
'Everything is in ruins'
- 20 November 2008
- 36 comments
The war with Russia last August has devastated Georgia: work and even food are now scarce. And Georgians fear that worse is to come
North America
Brand me!
- 07 August 2008
- 2 comments
From Michelle Obama and David Miliband to top athletes and business people, successful 21st-century figures appear to have the knack of branding themselves. Should we be following their lead?
Life & Society
Not for sale
- 29 May 2008
- 4 comments
Human trafficking is a $30bn a year global business. Now an influential group of women - politicians, actresses and singers - wants the fight against the trade at the top of the international agenda
Books
Gender and agendas
- 27 March 2008
- 49 comments
The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls and the Real Difference Between the Sexes
Susan Pinker Atlantic Books, 336pp, £12.99
Society
Can't stop the music
- 31 January 2008
Woody Allen regards Scarlett Johansson as a muse and has cast her in two films, comparing her to Marilyn Monroe
Society
More scary toddler tales
- 10 January 2008
- 2 comments
What is the truth about children put into nurseries at a young age
SciTech
Celebrity in cyberspace
- 03 January 2008
- 1 comment
Poor old newspapers, TV and magazines have to compete with people posting celebrity sightings, downloads to YouTube and "citizen-papped" mobile-phone photos
Society
Keeping an eye on the teenagers
- 25 October 2007
There is a deep unease towards teenagers at the moment. Perhaps it is a backlash against the laissez-faire child-rearing of the 1970s
Society
The McCann case is all in our minds
- 13 September 2007
- 20 comments
Now the idea that "the parents might have done it" has been officially introduced, the speculation has gone stratospheric
