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At last they will believe me: I was never Belle de Jour

18th November 2009 Toby Young

The decision of Britain’s most notorious anonymous sex blogger to reveal her identify came as a great relief. It finally puts paid to the suspicion that Belle de Jour c’est…

I must be prevented from becoming a Neighbourhood Champion at all costs

11th November 2009 Toby Young

I was slightly alarmed by the news that Harrow Council is recruiting 2,000 residents to join a network of ‘Neighbourhood Champions’. Their job will be to keep an eye out…

I’d expected a Hefner party, but this was like a ‘mixer’ at a florida retirement home

4th November 2009 Toby Young

I’m writing this having just flown back from Jamaica on the red eye (no pun intended). I feel a little shell-shocked, but not because I was up all night trying…

Status Anxiety

28th October 2009 Toby Young

Oh dear. I may have to write a book called How to Lose More Friends and Alienate More People. In a recent episode of Top Chef, the American cooking…

Status Anxiety

21st October 2009 Toby Young

As luck would have it, the opening gala of the London Film Festival usually coincides with my birthday, and this year was no exception. My wife and I put on…

Status Anxiety

14th October 2009 Toby Young

For the past three months I have been reviewing films for the Times and it has been quite an eye-opener. Before embarking on the job, I subscribed to the general…

Status Anxiety

7th October 2009 Toby Young

Last night, More4 broadcast a 90-minute drama-doc called When Boris Met Dave that I helped to make. It documents their Eton and Oxford years and I hope they saw it…

Status Anxiety

30th September 2009 Toby Young

A few weeks ago I appeared on the Today programme opposite David Denby, the veteran American film critic. He is the author of a book called Snark in which he…

Status Anxiety

23rd September 2009 Toby Young

‘You’re bringing a book?’ That was the reaction of Tom Colicchio, one of my fellow judges on an American reality show, when I clambered into the limousine taking us to…

Status Anxiety

16th September 2009 Toby Young

I have often toyed with the idea of writing a book called What They Don’t Teach You at the Elephant and Castle Journalism School. Under such headings as ‘How to…