The Cost of Dating: Why Fewer Dates Means Fewer Babies
We Have More Ways to Date, and Fewer Ways to Meet Ordinary life has stopped producing relationships, so now governments, companies and AI are getting involved. When I moved to New York in 2008, it was the era of multi-dating. I’d never experienced anything like it...
Every Woman Is Having a Different Summer
From Prove It to Hot Divorce, the Four Female Moods of 2026 This is the summer women stop trying to have the same summer. Two summers ago, culture gave us Brat Summer. Lime green, messy, loud, anti-polish. This summer feels different. It’s not producing one dominant...
The Broken Promise of Adulthood
Why the life people were promised no longer arrives in order. I started university in 1997, part of the last UK intake before tuition fees were introduced. I graduated in 2001. I had a job offer in New York, a future I’d only just started to imagine. Then September...
Your grandchildren may not exist
Across developed countries, the share of adults never becoming parents has roughly doubled since the mid-twentieth century. In some countries, projections suggest it could reach one in three for women born in the 1990s.
