Camilla Long - Journalist

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Not being a Sunday Times subscriber, I hadn't encountered her work until a thread on here. So I read some more of her stuff, and I actually quite like her. True, her style is bitchy and black humour, but if you read it slightly tongue in cheek, its refreshing and slightly novel.

I think the Sunday Times editor has made a forward thinking decision - as a professional woman who normally has to sit back, voiceless and unrepresented with reference to a lot of the crap that goes on around me, its nice to see a working woman speaking out, unfettered by traditional views on who she is offending. And lets face it, plenty of male journalists have written far worse over the years.

Shes a social commentator, and its just giving viewpoints from a slightly different angle. I loved her visit to the Playboy Mansion, which didn't disguise her dislike of it and her failure to take it seriously.

I'm going to buy the ST this week...

Well said, Camilla.

I like a lot of what she writes, I don't agree with all of it but then a good writer should get you talking about it, also quite like Daisy Waugh in the ST too. I just wish I had time to read it all.

Totally agree OP - I love Camilla Long! Always really look forward to her columns and interviews.

I like her mostly. Miles better than that Christa D'Souza they used to have doing the same sort of thing who I think actually believed it.

I haven't read anything by D'Souza in years. She always used to write about her plastic bazooms. Maybe she melted.

This is the journalist who won 'hatchet job of the year' or somesuch. Hardly a great accolade.

Hatchet job of the year was for her review of Rachel Cusks extraordinarily self-absorbed memoir of her divorce and cruel portrait of her seemingly mild mannered ex. The review and the award were thoroughly deserved.

Well, I haven't read that much of her stuff but her article on Carole Middleton last Sunday was petty and snobby. Wouldn't endear her to me.

IMO it's Camilla Long - "journalist"

I didn't like that piece either. Not particularly because it was nasty to Carole Middleton but because it was rambling and seemed to be an in-joke and I'm bored when newspapers do that.

Style does it all the time. The rest of the paper, less so.

Well vintageclock I couldn't disagree more about Camilla's article on Mrs Middleton; it was so enjoyable and funny because it was so true. It was pretty mild really;if you want to read Camilla on really caustic form read her recent Sunday Times article on the Savoy restaurant; she has replaced the now-soft AA Gill. Ta ra, Bells

She writes well and can be amusing, but I find her regular hatchet jobs quite depressing to read. The spite is really unpleasant. I always feel sorry for whomever she has laid into and feel less inclined to read her stuff because I think she's a pretty nasty person. I get the impression she is nice as pie to these people during her interviews, so they must get a nasty shock when they read the bile she writes. Still, I'm sure she enjoys herself.

Do you know the Middletons Arabella. Which particular part of the article was funny? The bit about her working class parents and grandparents? The bit about her living in a council house? The bit about her working in a shop? The bit about her setting up her own business at the kitchen table while the children were small?

My oldest friend recently said I reminded her of Camilla Long both in looks and personality. She meant it as a complement. . I need to get better friends, don't I?

Are you one of her chums, or relatives, perhaps? Funny that this appeared so recently after this thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1771660-To-think-there-is-nothing-wrong-with-Carole-Middletons-background

I think she overwrites some of her stuff and I don't think she's a great interviewer - Lynn Barber is more insightftul. Unfollowed her on Twitter because she repeatedly came across as a bitchy, misery type and her Carole Middleton piece was quite unpleasant.

I generally enjoy reading Cl's work and I don?t have much sympathy for her targets - she's been around as an interviewer for long enough that prospective interviewees can easily look up her stuff and know what her style is! I suspect many of them are so far up their own arses that they think "oh, she won't have anything bad to say about ME".

But her article on the Middletons, wasn't an interview, was it? It was purely her 'fact'-finding and sneering opinion (after attending the same wedding; bragging, possibly?).

All that Carole Middleton has had the temerity to do, is start an extremely successful business and have three attractive children, one of whom happened to fall in love with a prince.

How very dare she?

Isn't she the one who claimed Michael Fassbender was gagging to show her the er, Fassdong? (He denies).

Another clickbait trollumnist. Just a more literate Liz Jones.

I love C L's weekly column in the Style magazine of the ST. I think she sends herself up quite well and has a keen critical eye for what's going on in the style world.

I can't believe anyone would agree to be interviewed by here though. She rips them to shreds.

Lynn Barber wrote a really nasty piece about Rafael Nadal recently. I thought it was spiteful and point-scoring.

Can't believe Style magazine gave India Knight a beauty column though. Nothing to do with her looks - just the fact that she is already ubiquitous in the ST and we don't need any more of her. Ditto with Matt Rudd. I don't even read his stuff.

I also think some of these columnist should get off twitter as they make themselves sound like self-congratulating prats.

She did a great article on that gropey ageing DJ DLT

Are you one of her chums, or relatives, perhaps? Funny that this appeared so recently after this thread

No. Funnily enough, reading the thread led me to her article and prompted this thread.

We don't all have to like the same style of journalism - I find the swanning SamCam is so well dressed/Carole Middleton is so chic mulch far more tedious, and Camilla Long, if you have a sense of humour, is refreshing. A lot of its social commentary, and there is a long history of acerbic social commentary which has been a bit lacking in recent years.

I don't know Camilla Long at all but she sounds far more fun than the Middletons, whom I have not either, although I know some of their acquaintances.