Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

Nov 15, 2023 | cityam.com | Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

Wednesday 15 November 2023 5:30 am The slow decline of British pubs is pulling apart our social fabric Phoebe Arslanagic-Little is a columnist at City A.M. and Chair of Women in On top of the decline of libraries and community spaces, the dwindling number of pubs is another loss for the ‘third space’, writes Phoebe Arslanagic-Little. My favourite London restaurant is Harar in Vauxhall. I go there extremely often. Some say too often. Once, having been away travelling for three months, the...

Sep 7, 2023 | worksinprogress.co | Ed Conway |Robin Grier |Anvar Sarygulov |Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

Words by25 Mins The West has been below replacement fertility once before. Then came the Baby Boom. Understanding that boom may help us deal with today’s bust. In 1800, the average British woman had 4.97 children over the course of her life, about the same amount as the average woman living in Burkina Faso today. A century later, Britain’s fertility rate had slipped to 3.9 children per woman.

Sep 5, 2023 | cityam.com | Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

The real deal with meat alternatives will be lab-grown meat. It could change the rules of the food game once it enters the UK market, writes Phoebe Arslanagic-WakefieldOne evening last week, I watched a friend tuck into a sirloin steak. It looked delicious, if a little overdone, but I knew there was much more to it than met the eye. While the chips and peppercorn sauce it came with were real, the steak itself was a fake.

Aug 23, 2023 | inews.co.uk | Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

Beset by a serious mental health crisis and living in an atomised post-pandemic society, we are increasingly aware of how modern life can drive unhappiness. But what are the alternatives? To answer this question, I sought out a community of people who have in modern Britain, found one. A community that still lives by an ancient code set down more than 15 centuries ago – a Benedictine abbey. There were once more than 800 hundred abbeys, monasteries, and nunneries across England.

Aug 8, 2023 | cityam.com | Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield

Ken doesn’t need to question his masculinity, he just needs to contribute to the economy and get a job, writes Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield. In a scene that generated much mirth when first released as a teaser trailer, and which I can testify continues to please fans in cinema, Ken explains to Barbie that though it’s a “common misconception” that his job is surfer or lifeguard, “Actually, my job, it’s just beach.” Just beach.