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Gay marriage: let's hope debate is kind like Ellen DeGeneres
A week today MPs will vote on plans to allow same-sex marriage in the UK. Alice Arnold hopes the debate will be carried out kindly - in the same manner as one of her favourite TV personalities, Ellen...
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Why I am going to marry Clare Balding
Alice Arnold, partner of broadcaster Clare Balding, on what the gay marriage vote means to them.
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Martine McCutcheon's bankruptcy reveals pressure on female celebrities
Martin McCutcheon's bankruptcy is a reminder of the pressures female celebrities face to always look a certain way, even if they cannot afford it, writes Alice Arnold.
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Ladies, don't let the burglars break into your mind
The Oscar Pistorious case has raised the issue of intrusion into people's homes. Alice Arnold, a former magistrate for 10 years, explores how women can protect themselves mentally and physically from...
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LGBT History Month: why we sadly still need it
Today is the last day of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month. Although Alice Arnold wishes there didn't need to be one, she believes the important lessons and insight this targeted...
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Why this gay woman pities Cardinal Keith O'Brien
Cardinal Keith O'Brien's 'sexual conduct' has rightly left many gay men and women feeling furious and damaged. Ironically it is his hypocritical intolerance for homosexuality that has ended up harming...
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Marriage for all: it's time for civil partnerships to go
MPs are to vote on whether to allow straight couples to enter civil partnerships. But Alice Arnold, currently in a civil partnership with Clare Balding, wants them to end, and marriage to be open to all.
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What should a woman wear when reading Radio 4's Shipping Forecast? Trainers...
Alice Arnold is sick and tired of female daytime TV presenters not wearing enough clothes. She wishes TV could be more like radio and fondly recalls the negative reaction her Radio 4 uniform once...
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Ladies: British sports journalism is waiting for you
Clare Balding has just won another gong for her broadcasting at the Olympics. Yet in 2013, women are still few and far between in the male dominated field of sports reporting.
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Do guns make women any safer?
Since the Delhi gang-rape, the number of gun applications by Indian women has doubled. However, will carrying a handgun make them any safer? Alice Arnold thinks not and here's why.
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I might be a gay woman but I don't need to dance on Margaret Thatcher's grave
Many of Margaret Thatcher's opponents have been accused of 'dancing on her grave'. However, Alice Arnold doesn't feel the need to do that, despite being a victim of her public life and more...
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Stirling Moss - you obviously forgot about Susie Wolff - the 'fastest woman...
Off the back of Stirling Moss's bizarre comments, that women lack the mental capacity to compete in Formula One, Alice Arnold focuses her attention on Susie Wolff, a test driver for Formula One, who is...
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Why Olivia Colman is the new Judi Dench
Broadchurch sent the UK into a frenzy last night and certainly dominated Twitter. However, all eyes were finally on Olivia Colman and her former co-star, Alice Arnold, explains why.
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Why is it harder for a male athlete to come out as gay?
Jason Collins has become America's first openly gay male athlete playing a major team sport. The revelation has topped all the US news bulletins and even prompted a call from the White House. Alice...
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Moonwalk: Walking a marathon in a bra ain't easy, OK?
Ahead of this weekend's Moonwalk, an overnight marathon which 15,000 women (and a few men) complete wearing decorated bras to raise money for breast cancer, Alice Arnold, a former Moonwalker, paints an...
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Angelina Jolie won't be any less of a woman without breasts
Women without breasts post-cancer surgery may feel less attractive, less feminine. Angelina Jolie's operation blows that myth out of the water, says Alice Arnold.
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Alice Arnold: The homophobia we've heard this week is brutal - but most of...
The past two days have been an emotional roller coaster for Alice Arnold, who tries to see the funny side after listening to basic homophobia in the House of Commons.
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Voting should be compulsory 100 years after Emily Wilding Davison's death
This weekend's Derby marks 100 years since the death of militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who tirelessly fought to achieve British women's suffrage. Alice Arnold reflects on voter apathy...
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Glamour Awards 2013: an alternative view from the red carpet
A proudly unfashionable Alice Arnold found herself at the Glamour magazine Awards last night, supporting her partner Clare Balding. Having spent a life in trainers and woolly jumpers, how did she find...
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Should you intervene if you spot an 'assault' in public?
Women in particular can help diffuse a situation, says Alice Arnold, who is left wondering why nobody intervened in the Nigella Lawson case.
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