Borgen is back and 10 years down the line the main character Birgitte Nyborg (played brilliantly by Sidse Babette Knudsen) is 53. In the latest series, Nyborg who was Denmark’s first woman prime...
When FARFETCH asked me to feature their new beauty channel on That’s Not My Age, I was pleased to see that the luxury website is promoting smaller, sustainable brands, as well as all the usua...
My latest podcast guest is an extraordinary woman. The consultant breast surgeon, Dr Liz O’Riordan’s world turned upside-down in 2015 when, aged 40, she was diagnosed with br...
Walking is absolutely the most accessible activity for most people, wherever you are, with no kit needed, and more of us did it during lockdown. During 2020 the number of miles walked pe...
Do you find yourself worrying a lot? Between climate change, Brexit, Covid, and the war in Ukraine – to say nothing of more personal concerns like ageing parents, the rising cost of living, y...
The pandemic affected all industries in different ways. Obviously at its height, having make-up done professionally for photoshoots was verboten.
Why do so many disaster movies start with or involve crowd scenes? Jaws (1975) is the obvious example but there’s also Rollercoaster (1977) Deep Impact (1998) and Earthquake (2016).
Spring into summer always feels epic. First come modest white snowdrops followed by the more strident daffodils.
Out on a first date once, I knew there wouldn’t be a second when the seemingly nice man opposite me said, ‘I think friends are overrated, don’t you?’… The importance of friendship mig...
While I’m more than happy to welcome the grey hairs on my head, the white interlopers popping up in my eyebrows are a different matter. These rogue hairs are wiry, resistant to taming and when I...
After the success of her first book, The New Garconne: How to be a Modern Gentlewoman, freelance fashion editor, founder of the Disneyrollergirl blog and my good friend, Navaz Batliwall...
What a wonderful human being Emma Thompson is. You knew that anyway but… in the Guardian’s Living in a Woman’s Body feature, the 62-year-old actor writes about the pleasure of...