The TelegraphWomen's News The tragedy of Extinction Rebellion is how it messed up its climate change messageThe Telegraph - By Bryony GordonIt was the broccoli that did it for me. I had some sympathy for the protester who had painted his body green and enveloped his head in a life-like floret, only to be arrested on the streets of London police.
The TelegraphWomen's News Tampon tax held up Brexit negotiations, but when will it be scrapped?The Telegraph - By Helen Chandler-WildeMost things sold in the UK are subject to VAT. Exclusions apply for anything deemed a “necessity”, which includes most food and children’s clothes. A lot of things that aren't vital for life are also like
The TelegraphWomen's News It's not our business how Abbey Clancy parents her daughter - and why isn't the dad ever criticised?The Telegraph - By Cathy WallaceIt’s been a good couple of weeks for WAG fans. Not only have we had the breathtaking Colleen Rooney versus Rebekah Vardy saga - dubbed ‘WAGatha Christie’ in honour of the former’s exceptional Instagram-aided
The TelegraphChristmas My sister-in-law is so overbearing, I want to pull out of our family Christmas. What should I do?The Telegraph - By Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekanMy sister-in-law (whom I tolerate, but we’re hardly soulmates) has already started emailing me about Christmas. She has decided it’s ‘easier’ if she hosts. For whom? She lives hours from the whole family,
The TelegraphWomen's News The Government’s shameful failure to introduce online porn safeguards is a betrayal of our childrenThe Telegraph - By Judith WoodsIt’s a month since the latest cohort of 11-year-old boys started secondary school. And what an education it will have been. Not in geography, chemistry or music – more biology (human) and history (search
The TelegraphWomen's News I’ve discovered the solution to plastic pollution - capitalism!The Telegraph - By Judith WoodsGuess what? I’ve discovered the solution to plastic pollution. And it doesn’t involve Extinction Rebellion peeing-off commuters by train-surfing in rush hour. The answer lies in – wait for it, wait for
The TelegraphWomen's News 'I'm really scared about him not being here': Charlotte Church on her father's terminal illnessThe Telegraph - By Peter StanfordAny account of how a family copes when one of them has a terminal illness inevitably touches on our own deepest insecurities, but there is a particular poignancy in Charlotte Church’s brave and candid
The TelegraphWomen's News Wake up Channel 4 - a TV show where women can win cosmetic surgery isn't entertainmentThe Telegraph - By Flic EverettWith some TV programmes, you can imagine the original pitch all too easily. And so it is with Channel 4’s ‘controversial’ forthcoming show, The Surjury, which was presumably conceived as “Naked Attraction
The TelegraphWomen's News All hail 'prudecore' fashion: Why I knew understated dressers like me would have our dayThe Telegraph - By Claire CohenIt’s no secret that I am something of a prude. Buttoned-up, prim and proper. My décolleté was last seen in the wild sometime during the early Noughties, and my knees haven’t felt the breeze for years.
The TelegraphWomen's News 7 things every female founder needs to know about funding - regardless of how big or small their businessThe Telegraph - By Michelle de KlerkThe gender gap in funding for women-led businesses has become a hot topic of conversation, thanks to a raft of research and welcome initiatives that have been shining a light on the exponential value business
The TelegraphWomen's News Meet the influencer turning a new generation to poetryThe Telegraph - By Eleanor SteafelCharly Cox may have written her latest book of verse on her phone, but don't call her an 'insta-poet', says Eleanor Steafel Charly Cox has some advice for anyone who claims to be struggling with that 21st
The TelegraphWomen's News 'I've been patronised and faced sexism my entire life - now I want to make sure that girls don't'The Telegraph - By Miriam GonzálezWhat do teenage girls living in rural Chile, Naples, Singapore, a favela in Brazil, a wealthy London suburb and Silicon Valley have in common? The answer is simple: a lack of self-confidence. I lead the
The TelegraphWomen's News I pray Harry Dunn's family can find peaceThe Telegraph - By Allison PearsonOn August 27, Anne Sacoolas drove out of RAF Croughton and turned onto the B4031. Instead of entering the left-hand lane, the American diplomat’s wife forgot where she was and instinctively chose the side
The TelegraphWomen's News If only one knew what the Queen were really thinking...The Telegraph - By Allison PearsonQuestion: How much data does Britain leaving the EU create? Such are the wistful, slightly desperate jokes being traded by Brexiteers in advance of this week’s Super Saturday. Or Sod-Off Saturday, as should
The TelegraphWomen's News If GPs still have to learn heart attacks are not a disease purely of men - it's time us women make a fussThe Telegraph - By Allison PearsonTen days before my mother had a heart attack, her GP – who shall remain nameless, though not blameless – told her that her increasing breathlessness was nothing to worry about although, if she developed
The TelegraphWomen's News Like Jane Seymour, I look much younger than my age — and there are downsidesThe Telegraph - By Elaine KingettAs the actress bemoans not being 'gnarly' enough for Hollywood, Elaine Kingett, 70, reveals the truth about appearing youthful Actress Jane Seymour, 68, and looking healthy and happy in Hello! magazine,
The TelegraphEmployment Why I quit my high-flying job to start a business from scratchThe Telegraph - By Helen Chandler-WildeMany people are motivated by job security and promotions. Not Shàà Wasmund, who left a great job with Dyson in favour of starting her own series of successful business. The 47-year-old was one of James
The TelegraphWomen's News How Love Island lips became the new normal - and what happens when fillers go wrongThe Telegraph - By Rachel CockerAs Instagram and love Island groan under the weight of super-plumped lips and uber-smoothed brows, unregulated and barely trained practitioners dominate a £2.75 billion (and growing) filler industry –
The TelegraphWomen's News The worrying rise of 'rich-girl face' shows why teens shouldn't be allowed to get fillersThe Telegraph - By Celia WaldenNot long ago, I found myself seated beside a man at a party who introduced himself proudly as “Mr Botox of Beverly Hills.” Waxy-faced and rigid-featured with a perma-startled expression, the cosmetic was
The TelegraphWomen's News Princess Diana's 'final heartbreak' and her special relationship with PakistanThe Telegraph - By Eleanor SteafelIt seems somewhat incongruous that Diana, Princess of Wales’s special connection with Pakistan should have been born at Wimbledon’s Centre Court. Seated near the country’s then prime minister, Benazir
The TelegraphWomen's News Fatima Bhutto: 'Pakistan will welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with open arms'The Telegraph - By Nirpal DhaliwalThe name Bhutto is synonymous with a bygone age, when Western elites and Eastern dynasties mingled in the same jet-setting circles. At Oxford, Benazir Bhutto had been friends with Theresa May, who she
The TelegraphWomen's News The 'spam' emails that could save a woman's lifeThe Telegraph - By Laurie ClarkeFor many women, a major obstacle to seeking help or information is the fear of being caught by an abusive partner. The answer? An email no one could possibly suspect... “Top 10 uses for charcoal” may like
The TelegraphWomen's News Wags at War round 2: the men get involved which is never a good sign. Here's whyThe Telegraph - By Michael HoganYou will, by now, be fully across the globe-trembling news of the bitter dispute between footballers’ wives Coleen “Mrs Wayne” Rooney and Rebekah “Mrs Jamie” Vardy. You will have doubtless picked sides,
The TelegraphChanel Miller Why Chanel Miller will no longer be Brock Turner's faceless victimThe Telegraph - By Charlotte LyttonChanel Miller is not, she says, a “perfect victim.” Yet until last month she was a silent one, known only as Emily Doe, the anonymous woman at the centre of a highly publicised campus rape scandal. Discovered
The TelegraphWomen's News Mandatory consent classes will only turn young men off from being good feministsThe Telegraph - By Zoe StrimpelWhen I was at university, I encountered all sorts of men. Most were nice, some were dreadful bores, others vile snobs, a handful were lovely and handsome, and a sprinkling were downright nasty. I gave
The TelegraphWomen's News Inside Planned Parenthood's secret new abortion clinic in IllinoisThe Telegraph - By Claire CohenI am lying back on a grey leather bed, legs akimbo, as man in his sixties stands beside me, holding a drill. “Can you give us a minute?” my doctor asks him. “We’re doing an abortion here”. Welcome to Parenthood
The TelegraphWomen's News I can't be the only one who's happy summer is over – bring on miserable weatherThe Telegraph - By Bryony GordonKicking off her new weekly column for Stella magazine, Bryony embraces the realisation she isn’t a ‘summer person’ after all I’ve always liked to think of myself as a Summer Person, because: well, who
The TelegraphWomen's News I can’t forgive my partner for pushing me into having a terminationThe Telegraph - By Anonymous authorA few months ago, I was browsing make-up in a department store. The woman next to me, buying a lipstick, had a baby strapped to her chest in a sling. When I saw her, I ran to the toilets and burst into
The TelegraphRebekah Vardy The deification of Saint Coleen and trolling of Rebekah Vardy makes playground bullies of us allThe Telegraph - By Bryony GordonI don’t want to be a killjoy, for it’s been a long time since the country was united over anything, but I am finding this whole Coleen Rooney versus Rebekah Vardy thing a little bit… well, I suppose the
