Tattoo or not? The Windsors hired a subtly inked press officer

by Rashmee

Posted on September 6, 2013


It’s an arresting headline. “Thugs and druggies’ – what job interviewers think when they see …

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Crown possession: ‘One careful lady owner’ sells car

by Rashmee

Posted on September 1, 2013


As The Daily Telegraph put it, “it may have seemed a fairly standard description for …

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Edward Joseph can’t compete against George Alexander Louis

by Rashmee

Posted on July 24, 2013


Poor Edward Snowden. Despite his struggles to liberate himself from the transit lounge of …

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#RoyalBaby: The Archers again but less majesty please, not lese majeste

by Rashmee

Posted on July 23, 2013


The Windsors are becoming like a continuously and magnificently updated episode of The Archers, the …

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#RoyalBaby: Breaking news. There’s no news

by Rashmee

Posted on July 22, 2013


The most innovative spin of all. When there’s no real news but media outlets have …

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Edmund Hillary, 1953: It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves

by Rashmee

Posted on May 29, 2013


“I was naturally very pleased to get there, you can imagine we had some difficulty …

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Prince Harry in the US: The big point of pointlessness

by Rashmee

Posted on May 9, 2013


My friend – and former London foreign correspondent colleague Robert MacPherson – reports in his …

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A better class of class system? Nah. Just more categories

by Rashmee

Posted on April 3, 2013


“O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our …

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Royal bodies and other stars: the row that is not

by Rashmee

Posted on February 20, 2013


Kate Middleton’s royal body has become a talking point. What, you say, yet again? Just …

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Down Down Under? Stuff and nonsense

by Rashmee

Posted on December 10, 2012


Anyone following the screaming headlines about the “fragile” and teary Australian radio hosts who made …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK