Barbara Ellen

Columnist

Barbara Ellen is a critic and columnist for The Observer. She started as a music journalist for the New Musical Express. She has also written for The Times, The New European, Mail on Sunday, Elle, Grazia, Loaded, Attitude and GQ.

Down Cemetery Road – a fresh female take on Slow Horses

As the dancing queens take their last tango, has Strictly lost its sparkle?

The hot rabbi returns in Nobody Wants This

Tay-Tay’s Ophelia is positively drowning in artistic references

Riot Women is a thrilling ode to midlife female rage

Queen Dolly ‘ain’t ready to die yet’. Phew, we need her in the world

Could The Celebrity Traitors herald a new dawn of prestige reality TV?

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