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Janet Street-Porter
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- Janet Street-Porter is a writer, broadcaster and former editor of The Independent on Sunday. She writes a weekly column for The Independent. Appearing regularly on TV shows including Question Time and Loose Women, and having presented series on subjects as diverse as walking, cooking and architecture, she has won several TV awards including a Bafta for originality and the Prix Italia. She has written two memoirs, Baggage and Fall Out, and had a bestseller with Life's Too F***ing Short. Having originally studied architecture, she has commissioned two houses by leading architects. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Janet Street-Porter The gentrification of East London isn't all bad
It’s easy to sneer at the lofty pretensions of the new East Enders, with their beards, foraging and eco-friendly baggy shorts, but they’re a lot more welcoming than a smoky pub full of men leering at a woman wearing nipple tassels
Janet Street-Porter Jeremy Corbyn isn't the only politician stuck in the past
Women of Theresa May’s age are increasingly choosing the single life over marriage, and yet she continues to promote a retro view of family life as half of a cosy couple who regularly goes to church
