Ellen E Jones
Ellen is Deputy Editor of Independent Voices. She is a former Hollywood correspondent and a contributing editor to Little White Lies, she's written on film, lifestyle, travel and politics for publications including the Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Esquire and Total Film.
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TV review: You Saw Them Here First (ITV) - A deeply moving meditation on ageing and mortality
01 August 2013 08:40 AM
Neighbourhood Force, ITV
Justin Welby and now the Pope supporting gay rights: Trendy vicars, your time has come at last
30 July 2013 06:30 PM
Welby leads the way - but Pope Francis is taking baby steps in the right direction
Last Night's Viewing: Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
Notes from the Inside with James Rhodes, Channel 4
25 July 2013 12:00 AM
There's a promising start to this new series of the genealogy detection documentary Who Do You Think You Are?. Una Stubbs (Alf Garnett's daughter for the over sixties, and Mrs Hudson in Sherlock for the unders) knows nothing of her paternal grandparents. In fact, she never even knew their Christian names. This, my friends, is what we call WDYTYA pay dirt. What dark secret could be lurking in the local council archives? A convict for a great uncle? An entire second family in the next village over?
Oprah Winfrey the pioneer of television therapy can save Lindsay Lohan - and us too
23 July 2013 05:42 PM
Therapy culture was never a natural fit with the British, but in briskly rejecting all things self-help-lite, did we overlook the useful aspects of the movement too?
Royal Baby: Baby gifts for the heir to the throne
23 July 2013 09:43 AM
What to get the baby that has everything? Well, there's quite a lot actually...
Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman: The starker the injustice, the more it is denied
19 July 2013 06:55 PM
Don’t underestimate this desire to believe that racism is over. It is so strong it cannot allow for the blatant evidence of injustice presented by Zimmerman’s acquittal
Brangelina don't cut it, where’s the Richard Burton and Liz Taylor of today?
16 July 2013 06:45 PM
These modern-day celebrity couples insist on drawing a po-faced distinction between public performance and private romance - and we want more
Dear Ellen...Can I steal my neighbour's Waitrose shopping delivery?
09 July 2013 03:17 PM
Your ethical dilemmas answered weekly, in 50 words or less. This week: What to do when a supermarket delivery goes wrong. Send dilemmas to @MsEllenEJones
So Ed Miliband and Ed Balls dated the same woman? It's her I feel sorry for
09 July 2013 02:14 PM
Labour party leader Ed Miliband is free to prostrate himself on the alter of spin as he sees fit, but must he drag a respected BBC journalist down with him?
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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