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Simmy Richman

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Simmy Richman is Associate Editor of The Independent on Sunday's New Review magazine. He is also a writer and CD reviews editor for The Independent on Sunday

Comedian David Schneider took to Twitter to present his “Are you anti-Semitic? A personal guide to lefties and others”
Voices

David Schneider's guide to anti-semitism hits nail on the head

One writer's quest to find “a chef who is willing to be honest with me about bay leaves” has drawn a blank
Voices

Solving the great bay leaf controversy in the interests of science

The Australian Marriage Equality campaign demonstrating in Sydney in support of marriage equality, last year
Voices

The tear-stained face of the equality campaign in Australia

Swing Patrol have broken the world record for the largest Charleston
Voices

Dragons' Den star's male stripper routin went down a bit too well

John and Ann Betar have been declared the “longest married couple in America”
Voices

Syrian refugee and US wife become 'long married couple in America'

Base37's idea to dress up as characters from the video game Mario Kart and tear through the Westfield shopping centre has struck a chord
Voices

Mario stunt in shopping centre puts the kart before remorse

Charlie Lyne's film was a protest against alleged censorship by the BBFC classification board
Voices

10-hour movie about paint drying made hard work of film censorship

'We swung wildly from off-whites to deep hues of varying shades that might all be fine for now'
Comment

Middle Class Problems: Painting a room

Angelo Mastropietro's “ultimate man cave” – a one-bedroom bolt-hole built into a Triassic sandstone hillside in Worcestershire
Voices

This 'ultimate man cave' can be all yours - for £228 per night

Constance Hall, left, posted about “parent sex” on Facebook
Voices

The mother who really just wants 'bottle of wine and a hot boyfriend'

Commentators

A random collection of some of the more amusing moments of 2015

Voices

Pie Face is the cream of family games this Christmas

“I first did a ‘nightswap’ last summer when I wanted to go somewhere in Spain. I ended up staying with a husband and wife in Santillana del Mar in rural Cantabria”
Voices

How the Nightswapping is taking the world by storm

Voices

How the Nightswapping is taking the world by storm

“I first did a ‘nightswap’ last summer when I wanted to go somewhere in Spain. I ended up staying with a husband and wife in Santillana del Mar in rural Cantabria”
Lift every voice: Dominic Stichbury with the Chaps Choir
Music

Singing with others promotes health - and can be life-changing

The so-called "Blue Monday" is statistically the most depressing day of the year, and in 2016 will fall on the 18th January
Comment

Something to cheer you up on the 'most depressing day of the year'

Missing: Matt Barton
Voices

Band member Matt Barton teaches us all about how to avoid fame

As well as being Blur's drummer, Dave Rowntree also happens to be a practising solicitor, a pilot and a computer animator
Commentators

Star Boot Sale for refugees sees quirky donations from music legends

As well as being Blur's drummer, Dave Rowntree also happens to be a practising solicitor, a pilot and a computer animator
Commentators

Star Boot Sale for refugees sees quirky donations from music legends

The way we were: teenagers looking at the latest albums in a record shop, 1965
Features

Spotify's 1,371 musical genres: How to tell drone folk from skweee

Otto the bulldog sets the record for the longest human tunnel travelled through by a skateboarding dog
Voices

The Twitter hashtag that illustrates a very modern romance

“Take food-pun name, add simple menu displayed on an exposed brick wall, add single classic dish and hipster servers”
Commentators

London is witnessing the unlikely rise of the single-item restaurant

There are an estimated 150,000 Vegans in the UK
Voices

The debacle over a non-vegan cafe shows we all need to lighten up

Good Charlotte: Church, who handles all her own press, has recently become an unlikely spokesperson for the disenfranchised
Profiles

What lies ahead for Charlotte Church, the 'Angel' fighting austerity?

This made in England Pashley bicycle has a bathroom sink in the place of a saddle
Voices

The bike with a bathroom sink represents the death of hipster culture

The “Proustian phenomenon” proposes that distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories
Commentators

Is smell really the best way to trigger memory?

Combatants face off in a staring competition
Voices

World’s Biggest Eye Contact Experiment will legitimise a good stare

This made in England Pashley bicycle has a bathroom sink in the place of a saddle
Voices

The bike with a bathroom sink represents the death of hipster culture

The “Proustian phenomenon” proposes that distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories
Commentators

Is smell really the best way to trigger memory?

Combatants face off in a staring competition
Voices

World’s Biggest Eye Contact Experiment will legitimise a good stare

The Mr Men and Little Miss series of books are to be given a very modern makeover with new characters like Mr. Selfie
Voices

Mr Men books get a makeover: Get ready for Mr. Selfie

Voices

Mr Men books get a makeover: Get ready for Mr. Selfie

The Mr Men and Little Miss series of books are to be given a very modern makeover with new characters like Mr. Selfie
Float like a bee: the late Yogi Berra was a great language mangler
More Sports

Baseball player Yogi Berra was a master of malapropisms

Commentators

Sleep artist Lee Hadwin auctioning off notepad full of drawing he did

The rock group Kalliope Jones are: singer/guitarist Isabella DeHerdt (16), drummer Alouette Batteau (14) and bassist Amelia Chalfont (also 14)
Commentators

The Linkedin sexism saga is just the tip of the iceberg

Features

Our body clocks decide to fit in with the normal working day until we

Features

Our body clocks decide to fit in with the normal working day until we

Features

Our body clocks decide to fit in with the normal working day until we

Commentators

Middle Class Problems: Playdates should be easy ... but they never are

A double decker bus burns as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham, north London
Commentators

Twitter users get angry as Lush release incense inspired by London

Richard Keys has now, as Partridge would put it, bounced back after his 2011 'resignation' from Sky
Commentators

Qatar hero: How Richard Keys provided the week's most Partridge moment

Doner kebabs being made
Commentators

Kebabs are no longer just for the drunk, we're now having them for

A scene from the BBC’s ‘Bar Mitzvah Boy’
Comment

Why I realised that I couldn't fake tribal attachment to Judaism

For the first time, Stars Give Hope will be held in the West End of London, with the management of the Hippodrome allowing fundraiser Greta Lee to stage the show there free of charge
Voices

Greta Lee: Stars head west for fundraiser's charity warm-up show Stars

Toby Peach, who is now four years in remission
Voices

Life - a celebration: Toby Peach's one-man show catches the eye in the

McRae said he wouldn't have softened the invective had he known Craig Oliver was in the audience
Voices

Vine, winning and song: Tom McRae takes aim at the Tories... but who

Ella Woodward
Voices

Deliciously Stella: Lessons in champagne socialism

Norwegian film-maker Alex Lyngaas posted a video to YouTube to find a suitable partner for his 69-year-old mother, Eva
Commentators

The Eden project: A film-maker's 'Looking for Adam' quest gathers

Commentators

The Eden project: A film-maker's 'Looking for Adam' quest gathers

Norwegian film-maker Alex Lyngaas posted a video to YouTube to find a suitable partner for his 69-year-old mother, Eva
All male choirs are perhaps a “way to get men together in a different sense”
Voices

Love me gender: Chaps in tune with their masculinity

Performing artist Scottee (on the right) clubbing in the Noughties
Voices

The Real Liam Gallagher stands up - with a contemporary art show

Reviews

The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson, book review:

The 1990s game show Fun House is back. Sort of.
Comment

Fun House makes a comeback - for adults

The 1990s game show Fun House is back. Sort of.
Comment

Fun House makes a comeback - for adults

Some media outlets assumed that the bacon-scented candle was available to buy in branches of Greggs around the country. It isn’t.
Voices

Dear Greggs: Forget bacon-scented candles, where's the black pudding?

Churchill waves to the crowds in Whitehall (Getty)
Comment

VE Day commemorations have us all telling stories

The annual Boring Conference celebrates “very specific people talking about very specific things”
Voices

Welcome to the fifth annual Boring Conference

Soul & Spirit magazine runs a column by Derek Acorah called “Pet Psychic”
Voices

Careless whiskers: Derek Acorah's feline tales from the spirit world

The world’s first “questival” has been created to cater for adults wanting to be big kids
Voices

This could catch on: the secret questival for the young at heart

Chicken Town is planned to be an upmarket and healthy fried-chicken shop in the heart of Tottenham
Voices

A finger lickin' good idea: The fried chicken route to nutrition

Chicken Town is planned to be an upmarket and healthy fried-chicken shop in the heart of Tottenham
Voices

A finger lickin' good idea: The fried chicken route to nutrition

A recent OnePoll survey has revealed that people aged between 18 and 34 overwhelmingly prefer reading books on paper to electronic devices
Voices

Sign of the times: Books are making a secret comeback

A recent OnePoll survey has revealed that people aged between 18 and 34 overwhelmingly prefer reading books on paper to electronic devices
Voices

Sign of the times: Books are making a secret comeback

Talking cure: Yalom, here in his Palo Alto garden, is not one to just listen to his patients
Profiles

Irvin D Yalom interview: The grand old man of American psychiatry on

Talking cure: Yalom, here in his Palo Alto garden, is not one to just listen to his patients
Profiles

Irvin D Yalom interview: The grand old man of American psychiatry on

Profiles

Irvin D Yalom interview: The grand old man of American psychiatry on

Talking cure: Yalom, here in his Palo Alto garden, is not one to just listen to his patients
The Sri Lankan-born artist and writer Roma Tearne
Voices

A global family album: How Whitehall crowd-sourced an invasion

Features

The Bonus Track: Emiliana Torrini’s 'Autumn Sun', The Monochrome

The UK’s first fully interactive billboard, the “Look at Me” campaign is the work of the WCRS advertising agency
Voices

Bruise control: You can't turn a blind eye to this campaign

Singer Tracey Thorn
Features

The bonus track: Tracey Thorn's soundtrack for The Falling

Singer Tracey Thorn
Features

The bonus track: Tracey Thorn's soundtrack for The Falling

Dave Wasgij and his Wasgij Party will formerly announce themselves at the Comedy Pub in Piccadilly on 19 March
Voices

Give piece a chance: The jigsaw party completes the picture

Madonna's new album Rebel Heart will be released next week
Features

The bonus track: Madonna's 'Living for Love', Loyle Carner's 'BFG' and

Perhaps Peter Blake's best known work is the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album
Commentators

We'd like to take you home with us...The truth behind the Beatles' Sgt

Leon Bridges was not allowed to listen to “secular” music
Features

The Bonus Track: Noel Gallagher's 'Ballad of the Mighty', Brian

The Twitter account 'Fifty Shades of Gran' is run by a fictitious octogenarian, Ellie Steel
Voices

Now it’s fifty shades of blue-rinse...

Alabama Shakes' success one of the year's most heartwarming stories
News

The Bonus Track: Alabama Shakes, Dave and Ansell Collins, The Carole

Telling porkies: 'Peppa Pig' is shown on television in 180 countries
Features

Peppa Pig is making the leap to the big screen

Graham Carter began his boycott of Snickers after they changed the name from Marathon
Voices

Local hero: One man's stand against (full-size) Snickers

Rachel Fannan Twitter photo
Music

The Bonus Track: Rachel Fannan, Melanie de Biasio, Michael Chapman,

SJ Watson’s debut was a literary sensation
Reviews

Second Life by S J Watson, book review: Not a great page-turner... but

Rachel Fannan Twitter photo
Music

The Bonus Track: Rachel Fannan, Melanie de Biasio, Michael Chapman,

Bradley Knudson posted a video to YouTube which named and shamed a man whose children had been bullying and racially abusing Knudson’s adopted black daughter
Voices

Trial by YouTube: Outrage at social media outrage

One dating agency, Mutual Attraction, is currently advertising for a “professional Cupid” (AFP/Getty)
Voices

Dating agency requires 'professional Cupid': tact required

Metal heads: the group wear a series of masks inspired by singer Corey Taylor’s love of horror films
Features

Slipknot UK tour: The band is riding high in the charts - but who

American artist Joseph Gibbons is currently being held in custody in New York after attempting to hold up a branch of the Chase One bank (Splash News)
Voices

Modern art? It's daylight robbery

American artist Joseph Gibbons is currently being held in custody in New York after attempting to hold up a branch of the Chase One bank (Splash News)
Voices

Modern art? It's daylight robbery

Metal heads: the group wear a series of masks inspired by singer Corey Taylor’s love of horror films
Features

Slipknot UK tour: The band is riding high in the charts - but who

American artist Joseph Gibbons is currently being held in custody in New York after attempting to hold up a branch of the Chase One bank (Splash News)
Voices

Modern art? It's daylight robbery

American artist Joseph Gibbons is currently being held in custody in New York after attempting to hold up a branch of the Chase One bank (Splash News)
Voices

Modern art? It's daylight robbery

The title of the latest The Decemberists album proved strangely helpful when it came to the writing of this week’s column
Comment

After a grim week, some stories to add light to the shade

End of the line: the main entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in the village of Brzezinka, Poland
Europe

70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation: 'Why I had to visit this

Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay's Chris Martin “consciously uncoupled” in March
Comment

My best and worst stories of 2014

The first Christmas card: in 1843 the inventor Sir Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to draw a card for him to send to family and friends
Comment

Hold your temperance: New life for the first Christmas card

Giles Coren, as well as being the restaurant reviewer for The Times, is now a weekly columnist for the London listings magazine Time Out
Comment

Named and shamed: How to endear yourself to your new boss

Enrique Iglesias, winner of best world stage, performs at the MTV EMAs 2014
Features

Why did Enrique Iglesias's global hit fail to trouble our top 50?

The pregnant woman criticised anti-abortion protesters for “making other women feel guilty” by filming outside an abortion clinic
Comment

Giving choice a voice: The story behind an internet heroine

Music

The Bonus Track: Ryan Adams, Smoke Fairies, Acollective, BRISTOL,

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