"You are not trying to fill a hole in your soul with endless stuff, to be productive and ‘successful’ and accumulative, because you’re too busy filling a bird-feeder, finishing a book, going for a walk."

"Just as being labelled “witch” in past centuries resulted in ostracism, abuse, and possible death, being labelled “slut” today still holds immense pejorative power, even in post-feminist societies."

Gisele Pelicot should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Guts

Am I old now? Or do I just have Mounjaro face? A swift glance in the mirror confirms both.

Imagine then a world without the autistic spectrum. No Michelangelo, no Leonardo, no Beethoven, no Mozart. No Emily Dickinson, no Andy Warhol, no Tim Burton or Anthony Hopkins... also no Elon Musk, although we probably wouldn’t miss him too much — and by too much, I mean at all.

It’s a long, hectic day of sound checks and running around and trying not to get Jamie XX mixed up with James Blake, or scream 'Oh my God, it’s Felicia!' into Guy Pearce’s face.

Most people are aware that having a baby causes significant hormonal shifts in women, but over the past 25 years, research has explored how parenthood affects men's hormones

"Unlike Linehan, in court charged with harassing a trans teenager and smashing their phone (this was before he urged his online followers to physically attack trans people), Mo Chara’s ‘terrorist’ charge involved touching a flag thrown on stage at a gig."

"The ones involving the blurry waking up next to someone after a party; the ‘misunderstandings’ on the sofa; the awkwardness on a date, where you might feel the need to ask for Angela, or is that making too much of a big deal of it?"

We need to end the inversion of reality