Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross writes the "If you ask me..." column for i. She also writes for The Daily Mail.
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If you ask me...six weeks to get a beach body? My simple plan will work faster than that
16 May 2013 06:12 PM
May is definitely the “six weeks to an amazing beach body” season, as decided by the International Committee for the Continuing Torment of Women (based in Geneva)
Top of the crops: Michael Bolton on critics, crooning and why the mullet had to go
11 May 2013 12:00 AM
He was famous for power ballads and that hairstyle – to the derision of some. Now Michael Bolton is a humanitarian with a short-back-and-sides. But will our interviewer ever get a word in edgeways?
Don't we all dream of a Ukip wonderland?
09 May 2013 06:10 PM
For so many, life was far more pleasant in Ukip's imaginary heyday
If you ask me...there are some other people who could hand you back some cash, Iain Duncan Smith
02 May 2013 06:52 PM
IDS’s suggestion that wealthier pensioners should, in an effort to help the economy, hand back their fuel allowances has resulted in quite the hoo-ha. I can’t imagine why
Forget about ‘ethical’ labels for clothes. We need ‘unethical’ ones
29 April 2013 05:46 PM
£3 t-shirts would come with a label stating: “Made by Bangladeshi girls, aged nine, in unsafe conditions for 1p a day. Enjoy.”
Want to be really unfit? Try these simple exercises
22 April 2013 06:25 PM
The fact that it’s now known that Andrew Marr suffered a stroke while working out on a rowing machine has to mean there has never been a better time to give up exercise
If you ask me...I’m sorry, but I can no longer hide my admiration for Lady Thatcher
17 April 2013 05:56 PM
If only there were some opportunity to commemorate the legacy of this great lady - a 'Thatcher Day', for instance - I know exactly how I would celebrate
Drinking in the disused car park: are you up for Teenage Studies?
15 April 2013 05:59 PM
Teachers say Gove's reforms to the curriculum won't reflect teenage experience. But do we really want that?
Gerard Butler: 'I know some things I will take to the grave'
13 April 2013 12:00 AM
He may be a ‘fantastic-looking cutie-pie’ and is rumoured to earn $20m per film, but he is still haunted by his dark past.
Were you injured and would like to claim compensation? Get over it!
01 April 2013 04:00 PM
Just so you know, pretending to have put your back out is, research shows, much less inconvenient than actually putting your back out
- 1 'He was lucky he didn't die' - George Michael fell out of speeding car onto M1 motorway, according to eye witness
- 2 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 3 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 4 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 5 Why Arsène Wenger must spend to put icing on the cake and buy likes of Stevan Jovetic for Arsenal
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