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Inside Columnists

Liz is certainly no yummy mummy

Liz Hurley has certainly made a new man out of Shane Warne who has been transformed, since they started stepping out together, into a vision of primped, polished, moisturised and exfoliated weirdness.

Christine flags up her love for Frank

Most women I know regard football on TV as Calpol for big, grown-up men. A little helping of it and - bingo! - you can get on with whatever you're doing while they lie back, remote in hand, all glazed of eye and soothed, drinking in another match.

Women don’t make men suffer, macho society does

I don't hate men. Honestly. I don't harbour any twisted castration fantasies Neither am I envious, resentful or afraid of men. In fact, you know what? I really like some of them.

Watching the Trisha show instead of working is golden offer

Thousands of civil servants in Whitehall are being offered the choice of working from home for seven weeks this summer while the Olympics are on, to help avoid traffic congestion.

Ulster did lose but fans and sport were the real winners

Ulster's dream is over - if only until next year. The thousands of us who crossed the Irish Sea to throng the streets of west London, trooped out of Twickenham in the gathering dusk of Saturday evening, downcast, yes, but not dispirited.

Why older men turn women on

A gossip mag aimed at under-thirties caught my eye recently when it revealed the results of its readers' poll of the world's sexiest men.

Just what we all needed... the Dalai Lama coming to read the riot act

His Buddhisticular Holiness has spoken. Yea, and indeed lo, yonder Dalai Lama has been shooting his mouth off again, this time about last summer's riots in Englandshire.

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is dead. Now we'll never know the truth about Lockerbie

As a former Libyan intelligence officer, Megrahi's hands were dirty

The moment I knew my GCSEs number was up

My 15-year-old son has been preparing for the first modules of his GCSEs all month. The exam timetable is stuck on the fridge and the first one is the most vile and vilified of all. Maths.

Ulster did lose but fans and sport were the real winners

Protest: a demonstration against Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory

How Israel is not going to settle for any more boycotts

Is it kosher to boycott Israeli goods? More and more people say yes. And it is becoming more and more difficult to dismiss all of them as anti-semitic. The boycott campaign has gone mainstream and it is beginning to bite.