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Taking time out is incredibly important. It gives us some much-needed time to wind down, to relax and recharge our batteries. While many of us may settle down with a good book or a new Netflix series, others may prefer a long walk or soak in the bath. The truth is, that however you wind...
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I have just finished watching Road to Perdition. I’ve never seen it before but knew it to be a Tom Hanks film, which is reason enough to make me watch a film these days. Set during the Great Depression, it tells the story of Michael Sullivan Sr. (played by Hanks), an enforcer for the Irish...
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meghan markle
Aspiring princesses everywhere might just have to put their royal dreams to bed as Prince Harry is now officially off the market. Harry is said to be ‘besotted’ with Meghan Markle, a 35-year-old actress hailing from LA, who is best known for her role as Rachel Zane in the hit US TV drama Suits. News of...
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Wild, reckless abandon is the spirit of the moment this October. It’s go big or go home, shameless self-promotion, balls to the wall time and it’s all the moon’s fault! You may have noticed the moon was looking rather humongous and beautiful the other day, well this is due to it not only being a...
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lush cosmetics
Our social media saturated existence nowadays means that we’re more exposed to where our products come from and also how they’re made. Gone are the days of our blissful ignorance, when our consumer choices were made solely on pretty packaging and sparkly advertisements. Whether or not we actively seek this type of information on the market’s...
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kim kardashian
On 3 October it was announced that Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint at her private residence in Paris by five armed, masked men. The star was tied up in the bathroom and robbed by the men who disguised themselves as police, and as a result, millions of pounds worth of jewellery was stolen from...
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burkini ban
Women’s bodies have always been a battleground in one way or another. Married women regained their possession of their own bodies during the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th and in the 1960s we gained the right to choose if we didn’t want to bring a new life into the world....
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harambe
On Saturday a rare and beautiful creature was shot dead after an a four-year-old boy ‘slipped’ into the gorilla’s caged enclosure during a visit to Cincinnati Zoo with his family. The incident, which has triggered outcry the world over, has left us all with one harrowing and regretful question: did Harambe, the 17-year-old 450 pound...
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For my birthday, I was given a hefty non-fiction book entitled ‘Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism’ and approached it with caution. I know all too well that misogyny is still a major problem in Western society, despite the progress made towards bridging the inequality between men and women, but I’m still wary...
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madrid
Madrid is a city that has the perfect balance of a city life, but manages to keep all the quaint and quintessential aspects of the Spanish people. It does not compromise on this and for that, I love it. I’ve been to Spain before, mostly in my teens and early 20’s and most of it I...
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