Zoe Strimpel

Only the most heartless fantasist would deny the life-saving role that therapy plays in helping people manage mental illness.

Every time I go out on the Tube with my daughter and the buggy, someone leaps to my assistance as I face the stairs with mild dread. Young, old, black, white, brown, poor, rich, whatever. We are not a city or a country of entirely horrible people. Far from it: I think many here are still fundamentally decent.

The cult of athleisure is outlasting the brands that created it.

I never was a joiner and have always been wary of tribes, parties, clubs, teams; anything governed by the rules of a group, replete with public shaming as punishment for deviation.

Sometimes I just don’t have the emotional bandwidth to watch a series of Married at First Sight UK, a.k.a. MAFSUK, because it is one of the most stressful and at times blankly horrifying things on TV. All reality dating and marriage shows are a potent mix of boring and stressful, including Love Island, where the

The problem with the Hay Festival is the problem with everything relating to the cultural establishment: it takes itself seriously in ways that are no longer merely fodder for some fond eye rolling. In short, it has become sinister.

As soon as he heard the news that Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister , was providing guidance on single-sex spaces in line with the Supreme

As soon as he heard the news that Bridget Phillipson, the equalities minister, was providing guidance on single-sex spaces in line with the Supreme Court ruling, a friend texted me jubilantly to say t...

The landscape in which female beauty trends play out is increasingly mean and ludicrous, just when it should be less prone to obsession and caricature than ever before. We should be seeing thick hairy legs on urban streets, not just on LGBTQ...

The problem with progressivism, the political posture of the SNP, is the same as it’s always been: a tendency towards hypocrisy and delusion. As was grasped so well by Margaret Thatcher, the eternal queen of the Nationalists’ court of demons, people want money because they want nice things. They’re greedy and selfish, but the way to handle those traits isn’t through punishment and state control, but through a functioning, expansive, free-ish economic system that channels these natural instincts