Anoosh Chakelian
Special Sections Editor
Anoosh joined Total Politics as Special Sections Editor in June 2012. Previously, she reported and blogged for TIME magazine, and has been attempting to purge her writing of American spellings ever since leaving the organization organisation. Prior to that, she wrote features for the Telegraph and its magazine, ranging from interviews with millionaire entrepreneurs to psychoanalysing Kermit the Frog. When pursuing journalism after finishing university in 2011, the news appeared to be chasing her, rather than the other way round, with the News of the World folding days after she began interning at News International, and later that summer - when reporting for her local, the Ealing Gazette - she walked slap-bang into the Ealing riots. She has yet to decide whether this pattern is a curse or a blessing.
by Anoosh Chakelian / 22 May 2013
*Top lookalike Bentley Browning shares with Anoosh Chakelian the fears and fortunes of being one of the PM’s most successful doubles. Photo by Louise Haywood-Schiefer
by Anoosh Chakelian / 14 May 2013
The universities and science minister is an unrelenting optimist, telling Anoosh Chakelian about his party’s need to look to the future, not an imagined utopia of the past. But is it time to drop his smile and rescue Cameron?
by Anoosh Chakelian / 03 May 2013
Anoosh Chakelian meets the Labour peer, erstwhile London mayoral candidate and MP. Photo by Louise Haywood-Schiefer
by Anoosh Chakelian / 24 Apr 2013
Anoosh Chakelian talks to the outspoken minister about how to avoid playing the nanny, the tough schooling that propelled her into her third career, politics, and why her brief is anything but ‘soft’
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by Anoosh Chakelian / 17 Apr 2013
Anoosh Chakelian goes hot and cold on the National's new version of Maxim Gorky's play originally written amid the rumblings towards revolution
by Anoosh Chakelian / 20 Mar 2013
Pennies off pints, personal attacks from the opposition, premature papers but not a pasty in sight: has Osborne avoided another omnishambles?
by Anoosh Chakelian / 15 Mar 2013
Anoosh Chakelian and Caroline Lucas chat over Earl Grey and activism
by Anoosh Chakelian / 13 Mar 2013
In a forgettable PMQs today, Ed Miliband criticised David Cameron on his rumoured imminent u-turn on minimum unit pricing for alcohol by asking if he could ‘organise anything in a brewery’. We wonder how it would go…
by Anoosh Chakelian / 06 Mar 2013
Predictable statements on welfare and bankers from either side make for a stale fight. The only highlight is Ed’s imaginary friend, John the Banker
by Anoosh Chakelian / 26 Feb 2013
Rumours of more TV for Oona King were circulating among Channel 4 bigwigs, chiselled actors and former Dancing on Ice contestants at the launch of her diaries on ebook, House Music, in the Lords last night
by Anoosh Chakelian / 16 May 2013
The British Library's new exhibition 'Propaganda: Power and Persuasion' opens today, laying on the communicative powers of everyone from Uncle Sam to Tufty to Alastair Campbell
by Anoosh Chakelian / 08 May 2013
Do today's politicians supply plenty of colourful material for satire, asks Anoosh Chakelian, or are they all too dull to send up? Caricatures by Simon Ellinas
by Anoosh Chakelian / 26 Apr 2013
At the annual Stonewall Workplace Conference this morning, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a thoughtful speech championing diversity – which she admitted begins at home, in Parliament
by Anoosh Chakelian / 23 Apr 2013
Terror, torture and tweets: a thoroughly modern portrayal of age-old political repression
by Anoosh Chakelian / 17 Apr 2013
Following the route of Thatcher’s funeral procession revealed that the occasion was met with adulation, cynicism and all-out opposition. But it was all so polite
by Anoosh Chakelian / 19 Mar 2013
Communities and local government secretary Eric Pickles revealed the failings of his party in communicating its policies at this afternoon’s press gallery lunch
by Anoosh Chakelian / 13 Mar 2013
Health committee chair Stephen Dorrell MP gives Anoosh Chakelian a full diagnosis of the NHS’s failings, and reveals stark similarities between the previous and current government’s attitude towards health policymaking
by Anoosh Chakelian / 12 Mar 2013
As the new Archbishop of Canterbury airs his opposition to the government’s benefit system changes, Anoosh Chakelian asks how far the Church should go in attacking state policies – and discovers what politicians could learn from the clergy
by Anoosh Chakelian / 27 Feb 2013
Whether sticking doggedly to the painful script, or veering dangerously off course, today’s punch-up left both leaders floored
by Anoosh Chakelian / 22 Feb 2013
Phill Jupitus is less portfolio and more popinjay starring as a Tory minister in new political production Coalition, a play sometimes more topical than real-life politics
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