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: The 'Eye' has it – the rest of us wish we had

Saluting an anarchic title that bucks the media trend

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Sarah Sands: We can have the smooth man or the crumpled man

Sunday, 7 February 2010

How the world divides is a popular old parlour game, but in the hands of novelists it assumes a grander design. In an Independent interview on Friday, Martin Amis said that Zadie Smith divided between the organised and disorganised, Nabokov chose those who sleep well and those who do not, while Martin was at one with his late father Kingsley in separating the attractive from the unattractive. He did not mention Robert Benchley's witticism that there are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

There is nothing like a kestrel on the wing

Sunday, 31 January 2010

Sarah Sands: As the RSPB's annual Garden Watch monitors the state of British birdlife, our writer explains the attraction of simply observing.

Sarah Sands: The great British blockbuster – big, bold and brilliant

Sunday, 24 January 2010

As I skipped to the Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy last week, I experienced that first-day-of-the-sales feeling, excitement hardened by determination. Not only was I going to see one of my favourite painters, but he was everyone else's favourite. The world was converging in its taste, if not in its pronunciation. It was a blockbuster.

Sarah Sands: The menace that stalks the frozen foods

Sunday, 17 January 2010

The distinction between those who are snapped by press photographers and those who are not is not necessarily related to degrees of fame. For instance, a film executive mentioned to me recently that Clint Eastwood is quite often in London, but does not seek attention and so does not attract it.

Sarah Sands: Marriage has a secret door to happiness

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Are feminism and marriage compatible? Traditionalists on both sides argue that they are not. Feminism is about self-discovery; marriage about self-sacrifice. If you are economically independent, there is little marriage can offer you. Marriage is not so much a contract as a prison.

Sarah Sands: One last splurge before our frugal new lifestyle

Sunday, 3 January 2010

We're loading up at the sales because the spending spree is over – unless you're a foreign visitor

Sarah Sands: I dig my kitten heels in, whatever the weather

Sunday, 27 December 2009

As the snow and ice hit the South-east midweek, I turned the pages of the Daily Mail, shaking my head over the stories of abandoned cars, grounded planes and commuters struggling to navigate Siberian-style streets.

Sarah Sands: Blessed are the sacked, for they shall change the world

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Time magazine names Ben Bernanke, head of the US Federal Reserve, as person of the year. After the storm, the old sage acknowledges the first puny signs of growth. This year was all about the masters of the universe, and they were wonderful material for writers. The story that has not been told is the poignant and fearful one of unemployment in the real economy. The sorrows of the boss class have little in common with the stomach-gnawing anxiety of the rank and file. For the former, hurt pride can be soothed by lawyers and socking great pay-offs. For the rest, it can mean losing everything.

Sarah Sands: Life goes on, and even Radio 4 listeners catch up in the end

Sunday, 13 December 2009

After the death of Humphrey Lyttelton in 2008, the panel show that he had chaired for nearly 40 years, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, temporarily ceased because no one could imagine it without him. Barry Cryer wrote that Lyttelton was "the hub of the show". Jeremy Hardy ruled himself out as a successor on the grounds that "Humph had big shoes to fill and I wouldn't do it".