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Sarah Sands

Sarah Sands

Sarah Sands enjoyed decade long tenures at the London Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph, before becoming the first female editor of the Sunday Telegraph in 2005. Her topical weekly column looks at social and cultural issues.

Sarah Sands: Passion, drama, agony: a British institution in the making

On Friday evening, even as Scotland's latest most famous son saw his dreams dissolve at Wimbledon, the country's adopted daughter played out hers at Leicester Square.

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Sarah Sands: Will old goat be on the menu at Berlusconi's summit?

Sunday, 28 June 2009

A petition by Italian women academics that calls on wives of G8 leaders to boycott the forthcoming summit in Italy as a protest against the behaviour of President Berlusconi is gaining signatures. The main topic on the agenda of the L'Aquila summit in July is the stabilisation of Afghanistan, but the chief subject of conversation is likely to be the heroically/disgracefully goatish behaviour of Silvio Berlusconi.

Sarah Sands: Revered, powerful, serious - so thrillingly ripe for ridicule

Sunday, 21 June 2009

A criticism made of Sacha Baron Cohen is that he picks easy targets. It is not hard to portray American rednecks or Austrians in an unflattering light, although it is fiendishly difficult to create characters of comic genius, such as Ali G and Bruno.

Sarah Sands: To run a store, it helps to break the bank first

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Why the man who sank HBOS is walking tall again

Sarah Sands: A two-minute video is all the truth I need

Sunday, 7 June 2009

The publisher Caroline Michel explained the new business model to me over lunch last week. The important thing to grasp was that a book was no longer the starting point. These days the deal could begin with something as instant as a video clip. The video clip could lead to a book. The book could lead to a film.

Sarah Sands: When the going gets tough, the cheap get going

Sunday, 31 May 2009

As thousands sweated over their university final exams last week, a grim employment survey suggested that openings for graduates were drying up. The bequest from parents is a generation of debt, an ocean full of plastic bags and empty of fish, a political establishment in a state of collapse. And Susan Boyle.

Sarah Sands: Michelle's front-page power is all in her warmth

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Magazines sell on the immediate appeal of their covers. If you were choosing a significant figure this week, you might consider Steven Chu, the US energy secretary. Then quickly pass over his photograph.

Sarah Sands: Farrah Fawcett excels in her role of a lifetime

Sunday, 17 May 2009

A popular current YouTube home video is of a chubby girl singing "Nobody's Perfect" in her bedroom while keeping an anxious eye out for her mother coming up the stairs. The appeal of the video lies in the irony that a million viewers are privy to the girl's secret life, while her mother is not.

Sarah Sands: Lumley for president? I'd keep the Queen

Sunday, 10 May 2009

She is magnificent, but too risky to wield power

Joan Smith and Sarah Sands: The Thatcher years: a giant leap for women or a big step back?

Sunday, 3 May 2009

The IoS columnists go head to head on the legacy of Britain's first female prime minister, who walked into Downing Street 30 years ago tomorrow

Sarah Sands: Television has shrivelled, and lost its big man

Sunday, 26 April 2009

Our columnist laments the departure from ITV of Michael Grade

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