Isobel Lewis

London

Very serious writer/critic/yeller, prev @Independent now @bauermedia ✍️ @nytimes @guardian @theipaper etc, but thoughts all mine baby! izlewwrites(@)gmail(.)com

Articles

Did food waste apps like Too Good To Go succeed in their mission?

4 days ago | msn.com | Isobel Lewis

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Did food waste apps like Too Good To Go succeed in their mission?

4 days ago | msn.com | Isobel Lewis

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
Logging off helped me orgasm for the first time

4 days ago | me.mashable.com | Isobel Lewis

When I look back at pictures of myself in my early 20s, I see a confident young woman who was willing to talk about anything with anyone. But behind closed doors, I was hiding a secret shame that totally contradicted my public brand. I couldn't orgasm — not with a partner, not on my own. There had been fleeting attempts over the years to get the ol' engine rolling.
Have food waste apps succeeded in their mission - or are they missing the point?

4 days ago | independent.co.uk | Isobel Lewis

in focus What began as a clever way to save surplus food from going to waste has turned into a viral phenomenon, with TikTokers eagerly unboxing £3 mystery bags from Pret and Aldi. Isobel Lewis investigates the apps that provide this service to understand if they’re really helping solve our food waste problemA woman sits in her kitchen, showing off the contents of her bag in a video she’s filming for TikTok.
Have food waste apps succeeded in their mission - or are they missing the point?

4 days ago | foodsafety.einnews.com | Simon Calder |Isobel Lewis

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and moreStay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more A woman sits in her kitchen, showing off the contents of her bag in a video she’s filming for TikTok.
Doctor Who ends season 2 with a supersized episode and even bigger reveal

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Isobel Lewis

A Doctor Who season finale is normally a pretty predictable beast. At least in the NuWho era, we could expect the eventual defeat of a major villain, some revelation about the Doctor’s past, and humanity being saved by our Time Lord hero. Yet I clicked play on “The Reality War” with questions hanging in the air that far transcended the show’s plot.
My first orgasm: In order to get off, I had to log off

6 days ago | mashable.com | Isobel Lewis

When I look back at pictures of myself in my early 20s, I see a confident young woman who was willing to talk about anything with anyone. But behind closed doors, I was hiding a secret shame that totally contradicted my public brand. I couldn't orgasm — not with a partner, not on my own. There had been fleeting attempts over the years to get the ol' engine rolling.
People have threatened to shoot Jordan Gray at her shows - but she's as brazen as ever

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Isobel Lewis

Jordan Gray has had quite the three years. The highs have been lofty: a critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and Perrier nomination, a Bafta. But the lows have been catastrophic: transphobic hate, 1,500 Ofcom complaints, death threats. Ironically, both were caused by the same thing. In the autumn of 2022, Gray appeared on Channel 4’s Friday Night Live, where she performed the closing number from her Fringe show, Is It a Bird? the climax of which saw Gray stripping fully naked.
In The Fifth Step, Jack Lowden makes you feel sorry for an incel

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Isobel Lewis

Two men, one younger and wearing a tracksuit, the other in a smart shirt and trousers, sit across a circle of collapsible chairs from each other. “I think I might be an incel,” ponders the younger man, Luka (Jack Lowden), his brow furrowed. The other, Dave (Martin Freeman), calmly but firmly dismisses the idea. After all, Luka’s not one of those American guys who goes and shoots people in schools, is he? No, Luka replies, considering carefully; he’s Scottish, not American.
Doctor Who does Eurovision in space

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Isobel Lewis

[Editor’s note: The A.V. Club will return to recap this season’s finale on May 31.] For about as long as I’ve watched Doctor Who (that is, since I was a child), I’ve watched Eurovision too. I’m known for my love and knowledge of both, so why did I enter “The Interstellar Song Contest” with such a strong sense of pre-emotive disappointment? If there was to be a bad episode before the season finale, and history has shown there usually is, I would have predicted it to be episode six.