Sep 7, 2026
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...
Aug 10, 2026
Summer used to synchronise adulthood. Now it shows how differently we live. Adulthood used to be organised by two moments in time, regardless of what life stage you were in: Christmas, when we all got together, and summer, when we did the same. Christmas still looks...
Jul 6, 2026
The next category gets built in the gap between the event people announce and the change they feel first. I’ve spent years researching the beauty industry’s ageing conversation. From all my conversations with women, I’ve learned that it is rarely the milestone that...
Jul 6, 2026
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...