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At last, it’s OK to write about what an infuriating slog motherhood is

A powerful anthology, ‘The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood’, demonstrates that women are finally opening up about the relentlessness and resentments that are as much a part of motherhood as elastic-topped jeans, says Ceri Radford

Eating out while vegan is sometimes harder than you think

Adam Hamdani: This year, I’m giving up meat and dairy. That’s right, I am going to be that annoying vegan who can’t stop talking about being vegan. I hope you enjoy the ride

Kate Townshend We deserve any loss we’re feeling over Harry and Meghan

They will take their smiley, laid-back glamour and bestow it where they choose to. Who will the people who have been most vicious in their criticism of the couple complain about now?

At last, it’s OK to write about what an infuriating slog motherhood is

A powerful anthology, ‘The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood’, demonstrates that women are finally opening up about the relentlessness and resentments that are as much a part of motherhood as elastic-topped jeans, says Ceri Radford

Kristin Scott Thomas on Fleabag, ageing and the horrors of war

The actor talks to Alexandra Pollard about new film ‘Military Wives’, losing two fathers to the armed forces, and why working on ‘Fleabag’ made her feel ‘very, very inadequate’ 

10 best essays written by women to read this International Women's Day

Covering perspectives on everything from sexual politics to race, these essays are provocative, enlightening and above all, truthful 

If the government bans the ‘rough sex’ defence, what would it mean?

The Home Office announced it will be looking at ‘rough sex’ laws as part of the new Domestic Abuse Bill, but what will it mean? Sophie Gallagher asks campaigners

Woman appears to deliberately cough on man in coronavirus train row

Passenger admits deliberately coughing in man’s direction, before saying: ‘I don’t have the pandemic…bully’

Why has the oil price crashed by 30 per cent?

What are the implications for ordinary people and the environment?

Markets in meltdown as oil prices plunge to biggest drop in decades

Analysts declare ‘Black Friday’ as billions wiped off companies