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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Pope Francis made the comments as he flew back to Rome from Brazil

Justin Welby and now the Pope supporting gay rights: Trendy vicars, your time has come at last

Welby leads the way - but Pope Francis is taking baby steps in the right direction

Mary Beard with an ancient Roman caligae at the Xanten Museum

TV review: Caligula with Mary Beard, BBC2

Coming Up: Sammy's War, Channel 4

Last Night's Viewing: Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC1
Notes from the Inside with James Rhodes, Channel 4

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

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

What to get the baby that has everything? Well, there's quite a lot actually...

People protesting following the court ruling in the case of Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman: The starker the injustice, the more it is denied

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?

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?

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

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?

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Special report: How my father's face turned up in Robert Capa's lost suitcase

Special report: How my father's face turned up in Robert Capa's lost suitcase

The great war photographer was not one person but two. Their pictures of Spain's civil war, lost for decades, tell a heroic tale
The unmade speech: An alternative draft of history

The unmade speech: An alternative draft of history

Someone, somewhere has to write speeches for world leaders to deliver in the event of disaster. They offer a chilling hint at what could have been
Funny business: Meet the women running comedy

Funny business: Meet the women running comedy

Think comedy’s a man's world? You must be stuck in the 1980s, says Holly Williams
Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'

Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'

The Dr Feelgood guitarist talks frankly about his terminal illness
Lure of the jingle: Entrepreneurs are giving vintage ice-cream vans a new lease of life

Lure of the jingle

Entrepreneurs are giving vintage ice-cream vans a new lease of life
Who stole the people's own culture?

DJ Taylor: Who stole the people's own culture?

True popular art drives up from the streets, but the commercial world wastes no time in cashing in
Guest List: The IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Guest List: IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Before you stuff your luggage with this year's Man Booker longlist titles, the case for some varied poolside reading alternatives
What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
From Edinburgh to Hollywood (via the Home Counties): 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
'Hello. I have cancer': When comedian Tig Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on

Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

When Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on
They think it's all ova: Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them
The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

With its own Tiger Woods - South Korea's Inbee Park - the women's game has a growing audience
10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

Here are the potential stars of the World Championships which begin on Saturday
The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

Briefings are off the record leading to transfer speculation which is merely a means to an end