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Lucy Jones

@lucyjones

Lucy Jones is a journalist and author. She writes for The Independent about television, music, film and books. Her first book 'Foxes Unearthed' received the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award.     

<p>A mighty trio: Cat Deeley, Ant and Dec on ‘SM:TV Live’ </p>
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SM:TV Live was the Saturday morning joy that couldn’t exist today

'Springwatch' has taken on new importance and meaning at this time of hardship for many
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Springwatch is a green jewel in the BBC’s crown

‘Life and Birth’ tells the stories of women and their families expecting babies at a hospital in Birmingham
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At last, Life and Birth shows what having a baby is really like

Helping us reconnect with the children within: Grayson Perry in 2018
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Grayson Perry’s Art Club has a radical, essential message

Merritt Wever stars alongside Domhnall Gleeson in ‘Run’, the new Sky Comedy series which takes a refreshing approach to female masturbation
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Why is it still so unusual to see female masturbation on screen?

The Beatles celebrate the completion of their new album, ‘Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’, in 1967
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Listening to The Beatles is like returning to the Bible

Christiane and her husband Hermann outside the hut at Grey Hook in summer
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A celebration of forgotten feminist nature writer Christiane Ritter

At the Golden Globes, Phoenix implored his fellow actors to stop taking private jets
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Actors should boycott the Oscars instead of simply criticising them

Not just mindless fantasy: (from left) ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’, ‘Kiki's Delivery Service’, ‘Ponyo’ and ‘Spirited Away’
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The Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix at just the right time

A pregnant Beyoncé at the 2017 Grammys. The star has since spoken of her struggle to balance work and family
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At last we are talking about the messy reality of motherhood

The polar regions are warming faster than any part of the planet and glaciers are melting right now
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David Attenborough’s new series Our Planet is not urgent enough

Films like ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ are a rarity in an industry that is remarkably quiet about the world’s most pressing issue
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Why is mainstream culture so quiet about climate change?

Michael Jackson with Wade Robson, one of his accusers
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The Michael Jackson allegations might be the cultural moment we need

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The Michael Jackson allegations might be the cultural moment we need

Michael Jackson with Wade Robson, one of his accusers
Present imperfect: pictured (clockwise, from top left), Melissa McCarthy in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’, Frances McDormand in ‘Three Billboards’, Natasha Lyonne in ‘Russian Doll’, and Krysten Ritter in ‘Jessica Jones’
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‘Good riddance to the chokehold of “likeable” female characters’

Ted Bundy is the subject of a new Netflix documentary and feature film
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What Netflix’s ‘Ted Bundy Tapes and ‘You’ tell us about entitlement

Models pose in an advertisement for Fyre Festival
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Why the Fyre Festival documentaries were so terrifying

‘There’s a misconception that it’s a moral failing, or a choice, or a sign of weakness’
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Beautiful Boy is the most authentic portrayal of drug abuse I’ve seen

‘There’s a misconception that it’s a moral failing, or a choice, or a sign of weakness’
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Beautiful Boy is the most authentic portrayal of drug abuse I’ve seen

Rumours have been floating about that Lana Del Rey will be playing Glastonbury
Preview of the Year 2019

From Netflix to the Oscars, all you need to know for the year ahead

Starman: Bowie broke his ‘suburban curse’ and created alternative universes for himself and his fans
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Why David Bowie will never really die

Matt and Luke Goss
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Why the Bros documentary was the cult hit of British holiday TV

Related video: Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to groping charge
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Kevin Spacey’s weird video will not help his comeback

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‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ is not an ode to rape – banning it is stupid

The female characters were weak, gullible and naive and existed to fulfil the sadistic desires of Jack (Matt Dillon)
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The only shocking thing about Lars von Trier’s serial killer film

Some complained that the witch hunt episode rubbed in their faces that women weren’t equal to men 400 years ago
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Dr Who backlash shows why we must bin the phrase ‘politically correct’

Reviews of his gigs in the last decade are varied, even though he plays similar setlists. Some find the shows sublime and exhilarating, others find them appalling and even an abuse of power. But people still want to watch him perform
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Bob Dylan in 2019? He sounds like a pub singer with a throat infection

The female characters were weak, gullible and naive and existed to fulfil the sadistic desires of Jack (Matt Dillon)
Features

The only shocking thing about Lars von Trier’s serial killer film

Some complained that the witch hunt episode rubbed in their faces that women weren’t equal to men 400 years ago
Features

Dr Who backlash shows why we must bin the phrase ‘politically correct’

Reviews of his gigs in the last decade are varied, even though he plays similar setlists. Some find the shows sublime and exhilarating, others find them appalling and even an abuse of power. But people still want to watch him perform
Features

Bob Dylan in 2019? He sounds like a pub singer with a throat infection

Tyler, the Creator attends the 60th Annual Grammy Awards
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Why Tyler, the Creator's UK ban is beyond embarrassing

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Why Tyler, the Creator's UK ban is beyond embarrassing

Tyler, the Creator attends the 60th Annual Grammy Awards
Posh, Sporty, Ginger, Baby and Scary
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More than 20 years since the Spice Girls emerged – little has changed

What, apart from a heady dose of Nineties nostalgia, makes the track so good?
Music

'...Baby One More Time' at 20: Why the song was such a hit

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The agony and ecstasy of Aretha Franklin

Recently, parents removed their son from a school in the South of England, after it allowed another child to express their gender freely
Education

Schools must do more to challenge gender stereotypes

Recently, parents removed their son from a school in the South of England, after it allowed another child to express their gender freely
Education

Schools must do more to challenge gender stereotypes

Lifestyle

'Yes sir, I can boogie...'

Lifestyle

You must have bubbles for brains

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Artists to boycott New York show

Lifestyle

Check-in time at the heartbreak hotel

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Russia: Where Lenin meets Buddha

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