Emma Barnett

Lianne La Havas: British female singers don't need to dress skimpily or grind the floor. It's all about the voice

telegraph.co.uk — Beaming, sporting fashionably messy hair twinned with a bright orange sports vest and neon flip flops, (she's on the way to the gym), the talented half-Greek, half-Jamaican Londoner, explains that she has followed the prestigious music awards all her life. "Being up for an Ivor Novello is major - because these awards really value music.

Yoko Ono: Being a Beatle wife is harder than being married to a politician

telegraph.co.uk — Who could be a better person to land an interview with just hours before you hit Japan? Only one of the country's most famous exports. I am to go to Robata for food and will have no trouble finding amazing cheap boutiques for clothes "on every street corner in Tokyo", she informs me in her soft Japanese-accented voice.

Oh Mary Beard, why did you stoop to writing about shoes?

telegraph.co.uk — Mary in more scholarly times The signs were there in her to the 'Don't Get Me Started' forum - a website that she singled out in a blog for its truly vile" sexual abuse" as well as the "gobsmacking misogyny" that followed her appearance on Question Time and "would put many women off appearing in public", so she .

"Why did Mary Beard stoop to writing about shoes" -- & in the Daily Mail to boot?

timesonline.typepad.com — Earlier in the week, as some of you will have spotted, I wrote an article about why I like shoes in the Daily Mail. The reactions to this piece, largely on twitter, were varied, colourful -- and took every side of the issue you could imagine.