Viv Groskop is a comedian and author of Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident (Torva)
April 2024
Enough of the satire, dial down the rom-coms - Philomena Cunk is right: we need more stupid comedy
Viv Groskop
These are serious times, and they demand silly entertainment. Please, British TV – send in the clowns, says comedian Viv Groskop
February 2024
Euro visions
The art of doing nothing: have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture?
Interest in the concept of niksen has grown rapidly over the past five years – and it has become a publishing sensation. But just how easy is it to let go of all outcomes?
January 2024
In (partial) defence of Jo Koy’s comedic disaster: hosting the Golden Globes is far harder than it looks
Viv Groskop
Stars in Spanx and borrowed jewellery make for a tough crowd, and we love nothing more than when a comedian bombs, says the comedian and author Viv Groskop
October 2023
Makeup is out, grey hair is in: the week it became cool for women to look their age
The pro-ageing beauty revolution is here – as shown by the barefaced Pamela Anderson and proudly grey Helen Mirren and Andie MacDowell at Paris fashion week
July 2023
Barbie is now queen. But for my generation, Sindy reigned supreme
Sindy turns 60 this year, and at her peak had 80% of the UK’s ‘fashion doll’ market. What led to her cruel demise?
June 2023
Flex your social muscles – and stick to one drink: 10 ways to be much more confident at parties
‘Your body is miraculous – enjoy it!’ 10 ways to be much more body-confident
‘Hoard evidence of your greatness’: 10 ways to be much more confident at work
Coffee and quirkiness: 10 ways to be more confident on dating apps
May 2023
My Covid-era confidence crisis: how to regain your sense of self, hope and happiness
The pet I'll never forget
The pet I’ll never forget: part mafia boss, part Artful Dodger, Julian the cat scorns society’s rules
April 2023
I turn 50 soon. Why would I want anyone to assume I am younger?
Viv Groskop
Are we returning to an era of delayed gratification? I hope so
Viv Groskop
March 2023
Weekend
Weekend podcast: Marina Hyde on Boris’s last hurrah, the world’s favourite poem, and decoding midlife fashion
‘We want to wear what we want, but don’t want to get it wrong’ – how to decode fashion in your 50s
December 2022
The Christmas present I’ll never forget
I had to turn down a coat with dead fox draped over it – the Christmas present I’ll never forget
I was 20, living in St Petersburg and desperately in need of a warm coat. But as I saw the gift, my face turned ashen
April 2022
‘Ukrainians are being treated as enemies, as wild animals’ – film star Ada Rogovtseva
‘I’m not scared of war any more’: Death and the Penguin author Andrey Kurkov on life in Kyiv
March 2022
If you find everyone else boring you only have yourself to blame
Putin’s war has closed every McDonald’s in Russia. I remember the excitement when they first opened
