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Hey David Beckham, I called my daughter Harper first | Zoe Williams

Until yesterday, my daughter had a name with a literary resonance. But Harper Beckham has changed all thatThere are so many reasons to reject a child's name: it's a dog's name, it has too many letters, it sounds like the kind of name that a kid would h...

Don’t Cry For Me, Maradona | Radio review

I have come to terms with the fact that radio drama can't sound like normal conversation, says Zoe WilliamsReading the notes for Don't Cry For Me, Maradona (9.30pm, Radio Five), everything became a bit clearer: the man playing Bobby Robson (Tim Healy)...

TV review: Atlantis and Lord Sugar Tackles Football

It wanted to be another Pompeii, but Atlantis was always the second best ancient disaster'One grievous day and night there occurred portentous earthquake and floods," Plato tells us helpfully about Atlantis, which was thereupon swallowed into the sea a...

Selling sex is bad. But a few A-levels don’t make it worse | Zoe Williams

From Jennifer Thompson to Belle de Jour, attitudes about breeding and education have polluted the prostitution debateSo what turns a middle-class public schoolgirl into a £1,200-a-night escort? That's what the Daily Mail wanted to know when Jennifer T...

This Week: Sarah Ferguson, José Mourinho and the Sex and the City cast

Zoe Williams on the people hitting the headlines in the past seven days

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Sarah Ferguson

I don't want to be a bore, but we could really simplify these royal scandals, where a lady of the outer circle promises a fake Mr Moneypants some top-notch Windsor face-time for a fiver...

Should footballers bring their kids on the pitch?

Wayne Rooney's lap of honour with his baby at Old Trafford on Sunday was very cute. But should kids and the workplace really ever mix?

Wow. I was totally unprepared for the cuteness of Wayne Rooney's son. I want to steal him. How do I know? Because it has...

Nice one Cheryl Cole – but why did it take you so long!

By separating from her husband Ashley Cole, the X Factor judge has rewritten the depressing subtext of so many football marriages

Cheryl Cole leaves husband Ashley Cole

Her statement was brief, but not frustratingly so: it pretty much said it all. "Cheryl Cole is separating...