Oliver James

Articles

Contented Dementia

Selfish Capitalist

Affluenza

They F*** You Up

Britain on the Couch

Celebrity Profiles

Why being funny is no joke
12/01/2008, The Independent
As a 'melancholy' John Cleese's third marriage comes to an end, Oliver James wonders what is it about comic geniuses that seems to make it so hard for them to be happy?

Cheap Labour
03/05/2007, The Independent
In urging us to pursue wealth, the regime of the past 10 years is directly to blame for our growing unhappiness.

Nippers need emotional rescue from daycare
08/04/2007, The Independent
The Labour élite use nannies, not group care, as their substitutes.

It is not moral integrity he lacks, but the psychological variety
04/02/2007, The Telegraph
Tony Blair was uncharacteristically hesitant and stuttering during the initial part of his interview with John Humphrys yesterday. There were coughs and ums where normally there is fluency and the impression of total mastery.

The sickest show on TV?
28/01/2007, The Independent
Deserving cases beg for money, humiliated by a bunch of image-conscious whizz kids... Can television stoop any lower.

Why we don't know who we are any more
24/01/2007, The Telegraph
That nearly 60 per cent of Britons claim to be working class is both hilarious and hard evidence that we just don't know who we are any more. The reason is the way we obtain our identity: a shift from the collectivist to the individualist society in the last 50 years.

Mrs Mac’s elementary lesson
02/10/2006, The Times
The success of one clear-thinking headmistress demonstrates the dangers of hothouse education.

Think again
22/10/2005, The Guardian
New research on schizophrenia suggests that the drugs won't always work

The trouble with girls
01/06/2005, The Guardian
For many girls now sitting GCSEs, being bright and pretty is not enough: they have to be the brightest and the prettiest. What drives this obsessive perfectionism? And how dangerous is it?

A vote for immortality
26/03/2005, The Guardian
It was fear of death wot won it for George Bush in last year's presidential election, if a series of psychological experiments are to be believed. Whether the same could be true for Tony Blair in May is less sure.

The cure for colic
30/03/2005, The Guardian
When Oliver James's newborn son got colic, he and his wife prepared themselves for the horror of sleepless nights. Then they attended a breastfeeding clinic ...

Inside Jacko's Mind
04/02/2003, The Evening Standard
Martin Bashir groped about last night in the darkness of Michael Jackson's psyche with the skill of an apprentice plumber trying to perform heart surgery.

We're all optimists at heart. We have to be, or we'd go mad
16/09/2001, The Independent
Our collective feelings of insecurity and horror after the American atrocity will disappear with astonishing rapidity. Even if a war or other similar retribution keeps the historic event in our consciousness, the emotions you feel now will soon be a distant memory.