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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Celia Walden
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Celia Walden
Oh, how we love to pathologise normal life. Grief, heartbreak, misfortune or even boredom: why call these things what they are when there are exciting therapeutic terms out there? Terms that make us feel a hell of a lot better than any version – however kindly meant – of the old-school approach of “That’s life.” Terms that make us feel special.
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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Celia Walden
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Celia Walden
There's so much to unpack here. First, that with everything currently going on in the world - you know, the rise of modern totalitarianism, technology spying on us and all that - Winston Smith's view of women should be the main area of focus. Second, that word "problematic", which almost always precedes something cretinous, but in this context was genuinely baffling.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Celia Walden
One of the photographs of the Sussexes at Disneyland shared by the Duchess on Instagram over the weekend - InstagramAnother day, another image of the kids they fought so hard to keep out of the spotlight offered up to the world’s prying eyes. This time it’s a Sussex family break at Disneyland to celebrate Princess Lilibet’s fourth birthday, and not just a single image but a social media blitz. Pictures of Meghan and Harry taking Lilibet and Archie, 6, on rides, including the famous log flume.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Celia Walden
First, they give Meghan the "relatability" factor she has always lacked, partly by being very beautiful, and partly by making a series of bad judgement calls from the start. These poor judgement calls extend right up to the present day, to choosing to play a little ol' homebody making pasta sauce on screen in an all-white outfit. Not something any mother in the history of pasta sauce has ever done.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Celia Walden
The Met has just warned us to expect a summer of heatwaves following the country’s sunniest spring on record, so you can see the rationale behind the headline, yesterday: “Schools to teach how to apply sunscreen.”We know that skin cancer cases in the UK have been rising year on year; we also know that there has been a dangerous spate of social media misinformation urging young people not to protect themselves against UV rays – so again, the basic impulse is right.
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Celia Walden
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3 weeks ago | 
aol.co.uk | Celia Walden
For a moment, I thought I might have picked up an old Telegraph by mistake. In a house awash with ancient, yellowing newspapers, it has been known to happen, and there’s no way the headline I’m reading can be current. “Not everyone who menstruates is a woman, says toiletry firm.”Bunzl – Britain’s biggest toiletry supplier – might as well have puffed out its chest and announced: “the world is flat”. That’s how embarrassingly outdated its heroic little outburst is. Because – oh dear, how to put this?
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Celia Walden
For a moment, I thought I might have picked up an old Telegraph by mistake. In a house awash with ancient, yellowing newspapers, it has been known to happen, and there’s no way the headline I’m reading can be current. “Not everyone who menstruates is a woman, says toiletry firm.”Bunzl – Britain’s biggest toiletry supplier – might as well have puffed out its chest and announced: “the world is flat”. That’s how embarrassingly outdated its heroic little outburst is. Because – oh dear, how to put this?
