Fashion Week showed us the body positivity movement is over The main trend revealed on the catwalks is that, as the use of weight-loss drugs booms, women are expected to be thinner than ever

@evawiseman.bsky.social hitting the nail squarely on the head with this…

Teenagers’ phone use? It’s the grandparents we should be ... Maybe our fears about the ill effects of social media, screen time and doomscrolling are wasted on the young

Everyone’s obsessed with teens and phones. But - what about their grandparents? Little column here observer.co.uk/news/columni...

The Slow Newscast | The Observer <p>Our weekly investigative show</p>

And here is a podcast that tells our story observer.co.uk/listen/the-s...

Eva Wiseman: ‘Meeting my sister’s stem-cell donor felt a ... Lunch with a stranger would became the meeting of an extension of our family

Here is a column about having lunch with my sister’s stem cell donor observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Miriam Margolyes: ‘I’m incredulous that anybody would wan... The British-Australian actor on the perils and pleasures of being herself

I met Miriam Margolyes (again). It was glorious, of course. Guess how much she makes on Cameo? observer.co.uk/news/profile...

The wait for a stem-cell donor can be agonising… Then came fantastic news from a stranger in New York

Well, here’s an update… observer.co.uk/news/columni...

When things are not OK, friends offer help. Here’s how to do it… | Eva Wiseman When a true crisis strikes, there’s often nothing really telling that you can do – other than be there and be kind

A couple of years ago I wrote obliquely about a crisis www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

@heawood.bsky.social xx

‘Gentle parenting’ is another way for parents to be hard ... The new parenting approach can look like just another way of telling us we are bringing our kids up wrong

A column on the problem with… ‘gentle parenting’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Know thyself: the lyrical power of Self Esteem Chart-topping musician Self Esteem talks rage, love, poetry – and why she'd like to be Enya

I interviewed SELF ESTEEM observer.co.uk/culture/musi...

Oh I love it. Properly freaked me out this time around x

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Eva Wiseman: ‘A photoshoot loomed, but I prefer to forget... You might notice my column has a fresh new photo – less visible is my abject horror

Getting a new byline picture ALMOST KILLED ME observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Currently navigating the ferocious fives and elemental elevens having just survived the fraught fours and testing tens

I got… scammed 🤪 observer.co.uk/news/columni...

What do tweens really want? | The Observer If eight to 12-year-olds were left to their own devices, what would they buy?

We gave five tweens £30 and asked what they’d bought, and it turns out, kids are heaven? observer.co.uk/style/fashio...

A column about abortion 🥳 observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Sugar Mummy Mummy is working very very hard.

The brand new Fence #24 features this piece of short fiction by @evawiseman.bsky.social - one of the very best we've ever published.

Sweetly unsettling, comic and sad, Sugar Mummy is free to read now.

(And do subscribe to The Fence here: www.the-fence.com/shop/)

www.the-fence.com/sugar-mummy/

Sugar Mummy Mummy is working very very hard.

I have a new short story in @thefence.bsky.social - it’s about a sugar mummy www.the-fence.com/sugar-mummy/

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I wrote about the time nurses complimented me for staying thin (when I was pregnant) observer.co.uk/news/columni...

I wrote about… money 😶‍🌫️ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Issue 24 is here 🛏️

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With writing from @bronmaher.bsky.social, @evawiseman.bsky.social, @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social, @emmafmagnus.bsky.social, Sophie Wilkinson, John Phipps, Ray Philip, Clare Considine & many more. Cover by Nishant Choksi.

‘People can change their minds’: the evolutionary biologi... Ella Al-Shamahi is the erudite presenter of a breathtaking new series about our 300,000-year history. But her own evolution story isn’t short of drama ei...

Ella Al-Shamahi, presenter of the new BBC show on evolution, talked to me for the first time about growing up as a creationist observer.co.uk/news/science...

Eva Wiseman: ‘Summer is always a shock, and we never learn’ Every July the heat arrives and every year we seem to have forgotten it was coming… maybe because it makes us all feel a little bit unhinged

I wrote about THE INFERNAL HEAT observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A column on MISS WORLD observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A dream