"Two of my closest friends are excellent grudge-keepers, they are like Madeline in Big Little Lies, smiling as she says, “I love my grudges. I tend to them like little pets.”"

"If you shouted down a co-worker who was sharing their experience of racism, what would the reaction be? If a co-worker said they had suicidal thoughts and you said you didn’t believe it, how would your employer respond? If you insisted on using the wrong pronouns and misgendering a trans co-worker?"

Richard hasn’t seen Cooper since Christmas – he seems far more upset about this than the fact that he hasn’t seen me since Christmas either

In the aftermath of Sarah Everard's death, Louise O'Neill talks about how she was a 'Perfect Victim', yet people on the internet still tried to blame her for her murder

I don’t know who might need to see this today, who has a birthday or anniversary fast approaching, but I want to give you this advice. Celebrate it!

We invited Louise O'Neill to be guest editor of our Weekend magazine ahead of International Women's Day. Here, she writes about her vision for the edition

The popstar had a breakdown before our eyes and we devoured it like it was a soap opera.

"I think what is bothering me most about my birthday is the inevitable reckoning with the idea of the Wasted Year."

I want to stretch out my arms and touch either side of the world again.

— the desperate, grinding fear, the cruelty of a world happy to see it as a ‘gay problem’