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Madonna's Confessions II Deserves to Be the Album of the Summer, But the Response Proves We Still Punish Women for AgeingI've been waiting for Madonna to return to the dancefloor, and Confessions II doesn't disappoint. So why does it feel like everyone is talking about everything except the music?
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Legally Blonde's Prequel Elle Captures the Lost Joy of Analogue AdolescenceThe Legally Blonde prequel is more than a trip back to the nineties—it reminds us of a teenagehood that existed before smartphones, social media and constant self-surveillance.
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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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“We Really Normalise Pedophilia in Our Culture”: What Olivia Rodrigo's Babydoll Dress Backlash Reveals About GirlhoodThe singer’s response to accusations of “Lolita” aesthetics raises a bigger question: have we forgotten what unsexualised girlhood looks like?
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Inside the Manosphere: The Lonely, Hollow World of Online ‘Alpha Men’Opinion The Manosphere promises men they can dominate life alone, but the documentary shows just how fragile that fantasy really is.
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I’m Only 35, but I’ll Be Retired by the Time the UK Gender Pay Gap ClosesMillions of British women are effectively working almost 50 days a year for free
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I Can’t Keep Up With My Student Loan — Millions of British Graduates Can’t EitherInterest rates are piling up faster than graduates can pay, leaving millions of us trapped in debt we were told wouldn’t impact our lives.
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Brooklyn Beckham Doesn’t Owe Us an ExplanationOpinion Everyone is dissecting Brooklyn Beckham’s “nuclear” statement, but the real question isn’t what happened—it’s why we feel entitled to know.
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The Problem With Calling Grok’s AI Sexual Abuse a ‘Trend’Opinion How the language around Grok’s AI abuse minimises harm to women and lets platforms off the hook
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The Mental Load, Motherhood, and the Secret Life of a Wife in Room 706Opinion How love, motherhood, and responsibility combine to create a constant, often unseen, mental workload for women.
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I Hate Hosting Dinner Parties, but I Love Watching Fictional Parties DerailOpinion Hating dinner parties as a child, Viola van de Sandt now finds joy in their chaos—at least on screen. From burned canapés to family confrontations, fictional parties reveal women’s transformation, independence, and self-discovery.
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“I Miss My Family, but I’ll Never Speak to Them Again”: Six Women on Family EstrangementOpinion What a ‘no-contact’ Christmas really feels like
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Rage Bait Isn’t the Word of the Year We Want, But It’s the One We DeserveOpinion From the Kardashians to Sydney Sweeney, Oxford’s 2025 word of the year explains why the internet is driving us all mad
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The Caroline Flack Documentary Lays Bare the Brutal Ways Women Are Torn DownOpinion Five years on, are we any kinder to women in the spotlight?
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I’m Tired of Managing My Safety — Men Need to Manage Their BehaviourOpinion Every night, I think about women’s safety after dark in the UK, here’s what needs to change
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Sarah Pochin’s Comments About ‘Adverts Full of Black and Asian People’ Reveal a Troubling Backlash Against DiversityOpinion Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s remarks about diversity in advertising have sparked outrage—and raised questions about how rhetoric once confined to the political fringes is entering the mainstream.
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Smearing Virginia Giuffre: What New Allegations Against Prince Andrew Reveal About Power and SilenceOpinion Why smear campaigns by powerful men still work so well
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Britain Has Its First Female Archbishop of Canterbury — So Why Did Some Headlines Name Her Husband Instead?Opinion “We're still measuring women by who they're married to and whether they're mothers, not by what they've achieved.”
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I Left My Job Partly Because Of Painful Periods — Here’s Why We Need Menstrual LeaveOpinion Endometriosis, medical misogyny, and the fight for Menstrual Leave in the UK
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I Thought the Fashion Industry Gave Me Body Issues—Turns Out It Was the 80sOpinion Body positivity? Easier said than done when decades of diet culture still mess with your head.
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Inside Notting Hill Carnival: How It Connects Me to My Caribbean Heritage and Why It Must SurviveOpinion From child spectator to masquerader: Chanté Joseph shares her personal connection to Notting Hill Carnival
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I Grew Up Worshipping Carrie Bradshaw, But I'm Ready to Say GoodbyeOpinion I couldn’t help but wonder, what would we do without Carrie?
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Kim Kardashian’s ‘Back to School’ Skims Drop Shows We’ve Still Got a Sexy Schoolgirl ProblemOpinion Can we stop dressing up girlhood for the male gaze already?
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Kim Kardashian’s Skims Face Shapewear and *that* Sydney Sweeney Ad Reveal a Dangerous Revival of Regressive Beauty and PoliticsOpinion Inside the nostalgia for toxic beauty and politics
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Diane Abbott is Proof That as a Black Woman, You Are Held to Higher Standards and Criticised More HarshlyOpinion It's no surprise so many black women support Diane Abbott — they know how it feels to be vilified
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Oracle Cards Are the New Self-Care—But Is Online Spirituality Helping Anyone?Opinion Full moon mantras, astrology make-up, aura nails, and WitchTok: welcome to the era of algorithmic enlightenment
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TikTok Banned SkinnyTok, ‘Skniytok’ Quickly Took Its PlaceOpinion RIP #SkinnyTok. Enter: ‘#Skniytok’
