Rosie Kinchen

May 4, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen

Two weeks before my wedding I sat at the hairdresser and watched as my stylist’s face turned pale. “You haven’t brought any pictures,” she said, her eyes widening. I reassured her that this was intentional. I didn’t want a do; I wanted to look like me but on a good day. I watched as she shook her head slowly. “Wedding hair is styled hair,” she cried. When my partner and I decided to get married earlier this year we knew we wanted it to be low-key and low-cost.

Apr 27, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen

‘She wrote without editing herself — driving forward like a burst dam, ignoring typos and hitting enter every time a new thought came to her. It was wild unchained brilliance. Pure poetry leaking onto the screen … The date was January 24, 2013. I had received over a thousand emails from her over the space of ten days.” So reads a passage in Baby Reindeer, the one-man show written by the comedian Richard Gadd, about his experience of being stalked by a woman he calls Martha.

Apr 13, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen

It is 7pm in Hove and through the mist come seven figures — one dressed as a large inflatable dinosaur. The figures are women, and they are protesting against Sam Hall, a GP who they say has been prescribing cross-sex hormones to 16-year-olds, sometimes without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Last week the Cass report concluded the NHS has been failing thousands of children by prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones despite “remarkably weak evidence”.

Apr 11, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Rosie Kinchen

There is a growing body of evidence that the psychedelic properties of magic mushrooms, MDMA and ketamine can help with a range of mental health problems. Photo / Getty ImagesThe screenwriter Rose Cartwright has suffered from crippling mental health difficulties since she was 18. Could psychedelic therapy help her? It was 2019 when Rose Cartwright found herself tripping in a flat in Amsterdam, listening to panpipe music while two strangers danced in front of her with tears in their eyes.

Apr 6, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen

It was 2019 when Rose Cartwright found herself tripping in a flat in Amsterdam, listening to panpipe music while two strangers danced in front of her with tears in their eyes. She had been suffering from mental health problems since she was 18, had been diagnosed with OCD and depression, and had been on and off medication and talking therapies ever since.