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About Jane Shillingford

Jane spent the bulk of her career working on women’s magazines. Now retired and living on the south coast, she has no regrets and 'would do it all again'. More Posts

And your point is?

The crazy thing about the war of the sexes is that it still makes the headlines. These days arguments over whether or not there have been disproportionately few great female artists, musicians, composers or political leaders down through history ought to be superfluous, but we still get the same [...]

December 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Marks and Spencer: share and store

When I worked as fashion editor of a national newspaper, I was  always surprised how infrequently the financial desk contacted me for my views on fashion and retail.  As I prepped up for this article I called Bob Tickler who is big on product and service in deciding an investment. He told me [...]

December 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Life’s too short

Spotted on the website of The Guardian today, a main course-sized plate of common sense from columnist Suzanne Moore. I could not have put it better myself and am happy to admit it – see here – MODERN [...]

November 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

This one will run and run

The topic of the moment for not just female readers of National Rust – as heralded by my article yesterday – can be categorised by reference to that classic Meg Ryan scene in the diner from When Harry Met Sally …, when a middle-aged lady, sitting at a table in the background, [...]

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Back to basics

Wonders never cease. This week we have learned from our esteemed peers in the scientific community that there is no such thing as the vaginal orgasm. See here for a representative report upon the latest findings, as written by Rose Troup Buchanan for the website of THE INDEPENDENT Give me strength! [...]

October 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

You said it, Michele

Spotted on the website of The Guardian today, this article by Michele Hanson on the downsides of growing old – THE GUARDIAN [...]

September 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Where are we going?

Without doubt female sexuality remains one of the most complex, varied and intriguing aspects of human society. For a century and a half Britain was happy to buy into a convenient Victorian-born myth that women were confined to the home until about 1890, courtesy of a public middle-class view that [...]

July 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s the whole thing, stupid!

Wimbledon wouldn’t be Wimbledon without the odd ‘manufactured’ media controversy. Early contenders include an ungracious Frenchman – I won’t even bother to look up his name – who got beat and flounced out of SW19 saying he hated the tournament anyway. Good riddance to him. [...]

June 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

The joys of opting out

It’s a common thing for those with families and wide-ranging, active, social lives to regard those who choose to enjoy their own company as odd, whacky or weirdo. Whenever the name of some single woman in her thirties or forties comes up and the conversation soon goes down the line broadly [...]

June 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

The perils of putting your head above the parapet

For the benefit of anyone who has been away from the UK on holiday, or otherwise rendered incapable of following media controversies, there has been a bit of a belter running within the sisterhood fraternity for the past week or so. Kirstie Allsopp – whose full range of reasons for being regarded [...]

June 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

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