Category: Blogs
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Romantasy and the Very Old Habit of Sneering at What Women Read
This summer, Britain gets its first romantasy bookshop. Bad Girl Books opens on 4 July 2026 on Walton Street in Oxford, painted pink and stocked with spicy faerie romances, and at least two national newspapers have responded as though someone were opening a crack den next to a primary school. The Telegraph clutched its pearls…
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Wellness Culture Has Lost the Plot: Stephen Bartlett, Three Glasses of Wine and the Tyranny of Tracking
There is a particular kind of modern confession that arrives wrapped in concern for your wellbeing and leaves you vaguely worried you are doing life wrong. This week it came from Stephen Bartlett, who announced that after a year off the booze, three glasses of wine had, in his words, ruined his life. The three…
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What Is Nonnamaxxing? The Italian Grandmother Trend Explained
Nonnamaxxing is a TikTok trend in which people, mostly in their twenties, adopt the daily habits of an Italian grandmother (a “nonna”). That means cooking from scratch, eating with other people, walking instead of scrolling, gardening, going to bed at a reasonable hour, and generally rejecting hustle culture in favour of a slower, more grounded…
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The PE Trauma Generation: Why 4.1 Million British Women Still Won’t Exercise
If you came across this post because the words “PE trauma” caused something to twitch in your brain, you are in extraordinarily good company. Specifically, you are in the company of around four million other British women who Age UK has just confirmed are still being put off exercise, in midlife, by what their school…
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The “Angry Young Women” Panic: What’s Actually Going On
The right-wing press has spent April warning us about radicalised young women with green hair, nose rings and Green Party voting cards. Here’s what we noticed when we read the actual articles. If you’ve opened a newspaper in the last fortnight, you’ll have met her: the Angry Young Woman. She’s between 18 and 30. She…
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