Sarah Carson

London

Chief Culture Writer and Contributing Editor at The i Paper

chief culture writer and contributing culture editor @theipaper. who’s Taylor Swift anyway?

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Articles

Channel 5's scaremongering crime week left me feeling dirty

4 days ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

Welcome to Lawless Britain. It’s a fetid place, rampant with drug-addicted ne’er-do-wells, where killer kids wielding zombie knives are “style icons”; shopkeepers are terrorised by repeat offenders including Mr Magnet Man and the Notorious Weed Killer Gang while vigilante warriors are forced to take bike theft and pickpocketing into their own hands.
Stacey and Joe are right - ADHD is a pain in the backside

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

Far be it for me to defend a man who is not pulling his weight, but I think the nation has misunderstood Joe Swash. The EastEnder, TV presenter, onetime King of the Jungle and – most importantly – househusband and head cheerleader of Stacey Solomon, is taking a kicking at the moment, because on the quite excellent BBC One reality series Stacey & Joe (which deserves a Bafta, or at least an NTA) he appears to require only a fraction less supervision than their five children.
I've figured out what makes the perfect Race Across the World partner

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

There’s no question more dangerous than “Who would you pick as your partner on Race Across the World?” I’ve seen friendships torn apart (briefly), spouses erupt into shouting matches, and a dinner party descend into carnage, and all because someone made the wrong decision about who could get them to that £20,000 final checkpoint after eight weeks, about 10 countries, and £27 a day.
AI 'therapy' will only make you more self-obsessed

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

You can tell someone has misunderstood psychotherapy – or listened to too many podcasts – when they start to use therapy speak around you. Phrases creep in that raise alarm bells and make you cringe: they start diagnosing everybody’s “attachment style”, they label characters from their past “abusive” or “narcissistic”, they use expressions like “showing up for myself” and “intention” and “triggered”.
Great TV is wasted on BBC Three

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Sarah Carson

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Great TV is wasted on BBC Three

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Sarah Carson

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Great TV is wasted on BBC Three

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

TV like Just Act Normal is the reason BBC Three exists. This new drama, about three siblings who, through fear of being separated by Birmingham social services, must hide from the rest of the world that their mother has disappeared, is a showcase of brilliant new acting talent, clever scriptwriting, and observes a slice of young British life people with empathy, humour and generosity, even when the context is unimaginably bleak. It might not have been made if not for BBC Three.
Why SNL's cheap shots at Aimee Lou Wood's teeth feel so personal

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth were not up for discussion when she won a Bafta playing a sixth former on Netflix sensation Sex Education. They were not up for discussion when she played Sally Bowles in Cabaret on the West End, or when she starred alongside David Morrissey in BBC Three’s excellent odd-couple sitcom , or when she played bereaved mother and campaigner Tracey Taylor in Jack Thorne’s Toxic Town. Her talent, her garrulousness, her endearing charisma – sure. But not her teeth.
From engagements to babies, there's a wrong way to tell friends your big life news

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Sarah Carson

A little while ago I was at a party when someone let slip that a close friend was having a baby. Everyone is having babies around me now – if I get a text asking “How are you?”, I know what’s coming – so it should hardly have been a shock, and it is unequivocally happy news. Except I wasn’t expecting it, and it knocked me sideways. I gripped the sides of the sink, as the loudmouth tried to retract what they’d said and to understand my reaction. It wasn’t something I could articulate at the time.
Charlie Brooker’s real gift? Confronting our fear of death

1 month ago | msn.com | Sarah Carson

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