Biography

In 2010, she was "Columnist of the Year" with the UK's weekly The Times Magazine.

In 2007, she wrote an article for The Times in which she admitted to being a fan of amateur online porn.

She wrote a glowing review of composer John Barry's comeback concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998.

She is a popular journalist who makes regular television appearances.

Her siblings are Caroline Moran and James Moran.

Were the awfulness of Big Top (2009) rendered into miles, we could use it as a bridge to the Moon.

At 35, my breasts are still like peaches. But the kind of peaches you find in the bottom of your handbag, after you'd forgotten you put them there for a snack. Peaches that have the obvious indentation mark of your keys on one end, and a bus ticket stuck to the sticky bit. The kind of peaches you'd look at doubtfully in a market, 10 for a quid, and say 'I suppose I could make smoothies out of them'.

I will never diss my feminist forebears because I can see why they were angry. If you just make what you think is right look cool, then you don't need to convince anybody. I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

[on her hair style] It dates back when I was twelve and enormously fat, and I thought I could either lose weight, which would make my body look smaller, or I could make my hair look bigger which would make my body look smaller by comparison.

[on becoming a woman] It's like being in the Girl Guides. You have to get your walking-in-heels badge, your working-out-what-eyebrows-you're-going- to-have badge.