Latest articles by Mischa Anouk Smith
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Forget Capri, Türkiye’s Turquoise Coast Is the Mediterranean’s New Luxury HotspotAfter Mykonos, Santorini and the Amalfi Coast became Euro Summer rites of passage, I went searching for somewhere that still held some mystery.
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I Investigated the Hidden Cost of AI. One Data Centre Can Use as Much Water as 10,000 PeopleWe’re taking shorter showers and watching our gardens turn brown. But as AI water use grows, should we be thinking more about just how thirsty our new AI habit really is?
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The Agenda: How to Spend Your Finite Free Time Well This SummerThe most interesting exhibitions, restaurants, books, cultural experiences and weekend escapes worth leaving the house for.
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I Let Astrology Plan My Holiday—Less Than 24 Hours Later, I Was EngagedAstrology travel is booming, promising a new way to choose where we go and what we do when we get there. So I handed my holiday over to the universe.
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I Still Don't Know If I Want Children. I Desperately Hoped a Fertility Assessment Might Help Me DecideI wanted something to make my mind up for me. Instead, my fertility assessment reminded me that biology isn't always the biggest barrier to becoming a mother.
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The Barbie DreamHouse Is on Rightmove, But What Does Female Home Ownership Look Like in 2026?Sponsor Content Created With Rightmove and Mattel
Long before many women could realistically own a home on their own, Barbie already had her own DreamHouse. As she teams up with Rightmove to search for her next one, here's how female independence—and the dream of homeownership—has evolved
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I'm Baffled by the "Open Bag" Trend, But It Perfectly Captures the World the Ultra-Rich Live InThe hottest way to carry a £10,000 handbag? Wide open. Thieves be damned.
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9 of Britain's 10 Bestselling Novels Begin With a Dead Woman. I Asked Authors, Literary Experts and a Criminal Behavioural Analyst WhyWomen are crime fiction's biggest readers—but the genre's top stories still overwhelmingly begin with the murder of a woman. I spoke to bestselling authors and literary experts to find out why the "dead girl" refuses to die.
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After England's World Cup Defeat, I Couldn't Stop Thinking About This Domestic Abuse StatisticEvery tournament celebrates football's power to unite us. So why do the warnings about domestic abuse feel just as inevitable?
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Are We Travelling to See Places, or Become Someone Else While We're There?Shakira's record-breaking Rio concert gave me an unexpected glimpse into a bigger cultural shift—one that's changing not just where we travel, but why.
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Anne Hathaway's Pregnancy Hides a Much Bigger Truth About Having Babies in Your 40s"I was enraged to find out you can't have it all" – Four women on the brutal realities and unexpected joy of motherhood after 40
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What a Week in the Wild Taught Me About Slowing Down...and what slowing down revealed about me.
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“I’ve Never Had A Boyfriend”: Milly Goldsmith On Being “Chronically Single”After going viral for describing herself as “chronically single”, Milly Goldsmith reflects on never having had a boyfriend, feeling left behind and why being single is no longer her biggest fear.
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Why Do We Keep Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Men Found Responsible for Sexual Violence?Conor McGregor walked onto the set of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to cheers and applause–why was he allowed on in the first place?
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“It Is One Of The Grossest Failings In Humanity That Women Are Treated Like This”Four years after nearly dying during childbirth, Louise Thompson opens up about trauma, rage and finding purpose in the aftermath.
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“When I Saw A Positive Pregnancy Test, I Wanted To Call An Abortion Clinic Immediately”Nelly London on certainty, stigma and why her experience of abortion looked nothing like the stories millennial women grew up seeing.
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I’m Not an Influencer. So Why Do I Feel Pressure to Post My Holiday Photos?I spent half my holiday trying to stay present, and the other half thinking about how I’d post it later. Sound familiar?
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Did Dua Lipa Use Astrology to Plan Her Wedding? Here's Why the Internet Thinks SoFrom Ibiza blowouts to Disney-themed dreamscapes, couples are turning to astrology to plan their weddings. And after internet astrologers began dissecting Dua Lipa’s wedding, cosmic timing has never felt more culturally relevant.
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I Spent Years Believing Exercise Wasn’t for Me—Until I Ran My First Half Marathon at 35Working out terrified me for years, but after associating movement with punishment and thinness for most of my life, I finally ‘get it’
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“I Had To Grieve My Old Appearance And What My Life Had Once Been”Nikki Lilly opens up about online cruelty, facial difference and the disturbing rise of AI image manipulation.
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“I Felt Like A Failure For Gaining Weight After Birth”Alex Light on the pressure to “bounce back” postpartum — and why she refuses to erase the signs of motherhood from her body
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Women Are Delaying This Financial Step, But It Could Be Easier Than You Think.Sponsor Content Created With NatWest
One in four women ready to invest still haven’t started. It’s time to change that and make your money work as hard as you do.
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“Will It Go Viral?” Meet the Brides Who Treat Weddings as Content, and Guests as CrewAs the social stakes of weddings climb ever higher, more brides are turning private ceremonies into public content opportunities—and roping in their guests to help.
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Craft Is Everywhere In Fashion Right Now, But At This Studio, It’s A Way Of Life.As fashion and culture rediscover the value of the handmade amid digital overload, this Tanzanian social enterprise offers a more grounded perspective on what craft really means.
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Every Unhinged Thought I Had When I Lost My Luggage on HolidayLong haul flight = long-haul psychological event.
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Street Harassment Has Finally Been Made Illegal. Here’s What That Actually MeansThe UK’s new public sexual harassment law is finally in force, but campaigners say the real shift must be cultural.
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Move Over Swimming Pools, Every Rich Person Wants an Analogue RoomApparently, the richest thing you can do now is log off
