When I first gave birth, I felt no maternal instinct. Just pain. Horrible pain. I was also reeling from this…

By Vicky Mackenzie It began one hectic afternoon in 1976 at the Daily Mail, the fast, national paper in the…

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The gender gap in medical research affects all aspects of our health and wellbeing. Women’s physical and emotional wellbeing has…

A road trip through the outer cities of most Western countries can feel rather dystopian: car yards, big-box factory outlets,…

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Perhaps it’s something you could document: how much of your life you ‘live directly’. If you were to put a…

Womankind + books + tea. Some news… Womankind has launched its very own ‘literary’ organic tea called ‘poet’, which can…

Recently on an inner-city street I came across a cluster of elderly men standing around a little table topped with…

How many of us have been to a function hosted by friends, and found ourselves looking through French doors to…

Sitting around the kitchen stove with his family, a man from Ladakh, better known as “Little Tibet” describes the tourists…

The question of happiness and how to get it is endlessly entertaining. It’s one of the few topics on which…

I know a rich man who buys properties. He decorates them, fills them with consumer goods and then leaves them…

Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist and describing the…

Think about what usually makes you angry, frustrated, anxious; most likely it has something to do with external events that…