Monday Diary: Don’t Blame Politicians For Being Out Of Touch, It's Their Advisers
Jo Phillips explains why charity does not begin at home, and why politicians are out of touch.
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Jo Phillips
Jo Phillips is a broadcaster & writer and former press secretary to Paddy Ashdown.
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Monday Diary: My Auntie Nora Can Defend The Granny Tax, Why Can't Osborne?
Jo Philips on her hideous error staring her in the face, Auntie Nora on the granny tax and a plea for an end to voxpops.
Read moreMonday Diary: Sunday Trading, Vivaldi and Fine Debate.
Jo Phillips explains why she is against relaxing the Sunday trading laws, and encourages people to give blood.
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Monday Diary: The Women's Institute and Pining for Sherlock
- Mar 5, 2012
Jo Phillips on Schmallenberg, lingerie and Melvyn Bragg by way of fish pedicures.
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The Nasty Side Of The Anti-Workplace Campaign
- Feb 27, 2012
Jo Phillips lambasts big companies for pulling out of the government's work placement scheme.
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Why Joan Bakewell Is Half Right And Labour’s Got To Move Beyond The Playpen
- Feb 20, 2012
Jo Phillips ditches the diary this Monday, to rant about childcare and elderly relatives.
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Monday Diary; Cameron’s Schackleton Moment, ‘Naughty’ Ronnie And Lib Dem Landslides
- Feb 13, 2012
Jo Phillips proves what a dedicated Hammer she is this week.
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Monday Diary: Black or White
- Feb 6, 2012
Jo Phillips on extra terrestrial delights and vests in a grey and white world.
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Monday Diary: Corporate Muggings, Turner Back Home and a New Island For Runway Boris
- Jan 30, 2012
Jo Phillips thinks we are in the grip of an epidemic of corporate mugging and highlights three recent examples to prove it.
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Monday Diary: Referendum, Restaurants and Refuse
- Jan 16, 2012
Jo Philips thinks David Cameron can learn from General Tzu's wise words.
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Monday Diary: The lies of DIY; the Challenge of Sub-titles and Starting Adventures in Space.
- Jan 9, 2012
Jo Phillips asks if we are becoming oversensitive.
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Monday Diary: From Sheep To Grapes, Cinderella, And Time To Rest Eric & Ernie?
- Jan 2, 2012
Jo Phillips on the effective nature of sheep droppings and the magic of panto.
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Monday Diary: Sympathy for the Devil & the Sleepless Banker
- Dec 19, 2011
Jo Phillps has some advice for the sleepless, and Ed Miliband.
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Monday Diary: Sex And The Small Man Syndrome
- Dec 12, 2011
Jo Phillips looks at Justin Greening's grammar, email, sex and little men.
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Monday Diary: The End Is Nigh, Isn't It?
- Dec 5, 2011
Jo Phillips on snow, green stuff and the Camerons' breakfast table.
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Monday Diary: Yoga is Evil
- Nov 28, 2011
Jo Phillips on the cold heart of Elle, the rise of fat bottomed girls and the dark side of yoga.
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Monday Diary: Coalition Relegation, Olympic Protests And Peter Hain's Shameless Plug
- Nov 21, 2011
Jo Phillips is feeling very sporty this week.
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Monday Diary: The Return of Vinyl
- Nov 14, 2011
Jo Phillips on working less, striking in relay, the return of vinyl and the strange world of Nancy Del'Ollio.
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Monday Diary: Why David Norgrove Is Wrong And How Sir Alex Ferguson Could Solve The Eurozone Crisis
- Nov 7, 2011
Jo Phillips becomes a fashionista and wants a warning before spiders are screened on TV.
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Monday Diary: Fat Cats, Lost Cats & Jimmy Savile
- Oct 31, 2011
Jo Phillips is outraged that company directors have taken 49% extra in remuneration over the last year, and found Jimmy Savile a little 'creepy'.
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Monday Diary: Tick, Tock, It Must Be Easter
- Oct 24, 2011
Jo Phillips enjoys retro cinema and a trip to the tip. Well, several.
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Sunday Diary: Travel to work, swimming dogs and Who is West Ham’s Mystery Man ?
- Oct 16, 2011
Jo Phillips becomes an autograph hunter and worries about how people get to work in good weather and bad.
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Sunday Diary: Libraries, Business Cards , Green Tomatoes & the Decline of Virgin Atlantic.
- Oct 9, 2011
Jo Phillips is the very picture of a domestic Goddess. So she'd have us believe.
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Sunday Diary: In the footsteps of Presidents - By Bus
- Oct 2, 2011
Jo Phillips experiences a warm welcome in Martha's Vineyard.
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Saturday Diary: If Arsene's a Polar Bear, What is Sam Allardyce?
- Sep 25, 2011
Jo Phillips is proud of her grandparenting skills, especially when she takes her grandson to see Sam Allardyce.
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Sunday Diary - The Link Between George Clooney & Ken Clarke
- Sep 18, 2011
Jo Phillips on why ‘Boys will be Boys’ doesn’t wash and missing London? You’ve got to be kidding.
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Make Do Or Mend
- Sep 12, 2011
Jo Phillips says unemployment is forcing a rethink of skills.
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Sunday Diary: All things French & Beautiful!
- Sep 11, 2011
Jo Phillips is enjoying her stay in France. Lucky her.
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Sunday Diary: The Joys of Lawnmowers & Jimmy Page's Sign Parting
- Sep 4, 2011
Jo Phillips sets out to prove that she's not a 'ditzy bird' by buying a lawnmower. Find out if she succeeds.
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Sunday Diary: Teenage Holidays & Bartering With BT
- Aug 28, 2011
Jo Phillips wonders at what age teenagers should be allowed to go on holiday together and relates a tedious row with BT.
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Sunday Diary: Piquionne's a Load of Rubbish
- Aug 21, 2011
Reasons to love Peter Hennessy, hate shopping and be very disappointed with Piquionne
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Stop Demonising Men!
- Aug 16, 2011
Jo Phillips, who is of the female persuasion, reckons women need to stop demonising absent fathers and men in general.
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Sunday Diary: Starkey, Spooks & SuBo
- Aug 14, 2011
Jo Phillips makes her bid for a box set of Spooks. She should be so lucky.
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Sunday Diary: Let's Ban Mobile Phones in Restaurants
- Aug 7, 2011
Jo Phillips on inappropriate mpbile phone conversations on trains and in restaurants, and why only men can barbecue.
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A Rehab Charity in Amy's Name? For God's Sake No!
- Aug 2, 2011
Jo Phillips argues that there are too many charities, all set up for the best of reasons but with questionable efficacy.
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Sunday Diary: Oysters, Scales & Nameless Children
- Jul 31, 2011
Jo Phillips explains the delights of the Whitstable oyster festival and bemoans parents who don't speak to their children.
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An Hour is a Long Time on TV: Hurrah for Tom Bradby
- Jul 20, 2011
Jo Phillips congratulates Tom Bradby on his excellent coverage of Hackgate, and knowing when to move on.
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Me? Play Golf? Balls
- Jul 18, 2011
Jo Phillips cannot fathom the attraction of golf. Odd woman...
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Spare Me From Work Experience Kids...
- Jul 17, 2011
Jo Phillips has become an old git. She enjoys a good old rant aimed unfairly but squarely at work-keen teenagers.
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Watching the Detectives
- Jul 11, 2011
An unashamed fan of TV detectives, Jo Phillips laments the passing of Zen, the end of Luther and the lack of series female detectives.
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Big Fat Sam, Speedos & School Sport
- Jul 10, 2011
Sam Allardyce blames the declining number of British professional footballers on Margaret Thatcher. He may have a point, says Jo Phillips, but it goes deeper than that.
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Why We Must Cherish the Great British Countryside
- Jul 10, 2011
It's National Countryside Week and yet the metropolitan elites seem to delight in ignoring the contribution rural areas make to our economy. It's time they got real, says Jo Phillips.
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It's The Football Countdown!
- Jul 3, 2011
The summer is a season which lasts an eternity for every football fan. Jo Phillips looks forward to the start of a new season, full of hope and expectation. Just like the rest of us.
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All We Need Is Radio Ga Ga
- Jul 3, 2011
It's very odd, but radio still reaches the parts TV can't. Jo Phillips explains why.
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It's An Age Thing
- Jul 3, 2011
Shouldn't we be ashamed of the way we treat our elderly, not least in our own families, asks Jo Phillips.
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About Jo Phillips
Jo Phillips is an award-winning journalist and former political adviser. Her career has spanned politics, public affairs and media across private, public and not for profit sectors. She has worked for all the UK’s major broadcasters, played a key role in local, European and general election campaigns and is co-author of Why Vote and Why Join a Trade Union.
Jo was a key member of Bob Geldof’s Live8 team, and was Press Secretary to Paddy Ashdown. A regular commentator on Sky, LBC, Talksport and BBC. she's also been a non-executive director of a local health authority, a prison visitor, driven in rallies across Syria, chaired a crime prevention panel and is a West Ham United season ticket holder.