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Mary Portas

November 2023

  • ‘They are completely and utterly gaslighting us’ … Mary Portas in The Great Climate Fight.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: why Mary Portas gave Rishi Sunak a Jilly Cooper book

    Portas joins Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Kevin McCloud in getting creative to fight the climate crisis. Plus: Joan Collins meets Louis Theroux. Here’s what to watch this evening

June 2023

  • Mary Portas for g2. Photo by Linda Nylind. 25/05/2023.

    ‘The last four years were horrendous’: Mary Portas on divorce, bereavement – and reinventing herself

    After a lifetime in retail, the queen of shops has had a ‘proper epiphany’. She talks about her dislike of the fashion world, her painful childhood and the need for kindness

March 2023

  • John Lewis store in Liverpool One

    John Lewis must regain its ‘soul’ to survive, says Mary Portas

    Retail expert urges troubled UK company not to lose sight of its values amid proposal to welcome outside investment

March 2021

  • Mary Portas

    UK fashion and retail names call for 'shop out to help out' scheme

    Mary Portas and Charlotte Tilbury among those who want support for Covid-hit independent stores

December 2020

  • Kate Moss at Topshop.

    Don’t save the high street – change it completely, says retail guru Mary Portas

    The pandemic has accelerated huge shifts in the way people shop. Now firms and government will have to wake up and innovate

May 2020

  • Mary Portas … talks about ‘the kindness economy’.

    'Every £1 spent is a vote for how we want to live': Mary Portas on the high-street shops that will thrive after lockdown

    Many shops will be destroyed by the pandemic’s impact on business. But, says the shopping guru, those who did the right thing will reap the benefits

October 2018

  • Jean Goldsmith shot at her home with Walter 10 years old.

    Mary Portas: ‘It was a question of how do I want to work as a woman?’

    After reaching the top of her profession, retail guru Mary Portas had an epiphany. She tells Rachel Cooke how she found her true sense of self

May 2018

  • Portrait of Mary Portas at her office, for Review, 22 Torrington Place, London, 08/08/2011 Photographed for the Observer by Sophia Evans

    Transforming leadership
    The Apprentice​ is just the most hideous show on TV, says Mary Portas

    The high-street expert and ‘Queen of Shops’ discusses the problem with aggressive leadership, clashing with government ministers and being called ‘too emotional’


May 2016

  • Lunch with Mary Portas

    Lunch with...
    Mary Portas: ‘I put a shell round myself to get through life’

    The Queen of Shops on Vesta curries, growing up in a large family – and the pain of losing both her parents as a teenager

April 2016

  • Mary Portas portas MG 6397

    Mary Portas: how I would have saved BHS

    Mary Portas
    The department store chain was too slow to change in fast-moving retail landscape, but with bit of imagination it didn’t need to end this way

December 2015

  • Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough

    TV review
    Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough review: the man who shows us miracles

    Who’s got the best life? It has to be David Attenborough, whose films capture wonders that still seem imposssible, even after you’ve seen them. Plus: back down to earth with Mary Portas in What Britain Bought in 2015

October 2015

  • Mary Portas: ‘Almost all luxury fashion brands target women in the 35-plus age group.’

    Mary Portas: 'Things are better for women on the high street today than when we started'

    Have fashion brands finally stopped ignoring women over 40 and started catering to them as a matter of course? The Queen of Shops argues that the high street is finally embracing ageless style

September 2015

  • Dartford’s high street was one of those targeted for help by the widely hyped Portas Pilot programme.

    Whatever happened to the reinvention of the UK high street?

    Adam Greenfield
  • Mediterranean migrant crisis<br>File photo dated 05/06/15 of Bob Geldof, who has offered to immediately take in four families as he expressed disgust at the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday September 4, 2015. The aid campaigner and singer said he would open the doors to his family home in Kent and his flat in London in a personal response to the shocking scenes on borders, beaches and railway stations. See PA story POLITICS Migrants Geldof. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

    Bob Geldof offers to house four refugee families

April 2015

  • The FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford, Britain - 28 Mar 2015

    The Guardian view on the high street: let local councils make the local decisions

    Editorial: The years of control from the centre have failed to make any difference. Local councils must be able to set their own business rates and have more power over policy such as rents

March 2015

  • Mary Portas: 'strangely nostalgic for a bygone age of thrift.'

    Shop Girl review – Mary Portas’s breezy memoir

    The retail queen tells the story of her early years with engaging humour

February 2015

  • Mary Portas.

    The other side
    Mary Portas: Secret Shopper is a tear-jerking masterclass

  • Mary Portas and Melanie Rickey convert their civil partnership into a marriage at Westminster City H

    We’re the new ‘normal’ family, says Mary Portas’s wife

December 2014

  • Percy Steven and Roger Lockyer

    Together nearly 49 years – married at last after civil partnership conversion

    Law change allows same sex couples to convert civil partnership to marriage, with Mary Portas first to use amendment

June 2014

  • Mary Portas … on a mission to get the over-65s back into work

    TV review
    Mary's Silver Service - TV review

    Bim Adewunmi: Mary Portas focuses her steamroller approach on getting the over-65s back into work - but is it all just a bit patronising really?

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