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Elle Hunt

The Guardian

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Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

In taking stock of how we spend our days, no one likes to think of all the hours we’ve spent on the phone to the tax office. Yet that and other...

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A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

Politicians are used to being asked tough questions – and voters are, by now, used to their stalling in response. Still, you might not imagine that...

03.05.2024 70

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Outside London, the dating pool may be smaller – but there are fewer sharks

When I left London for a smaller city, my only hesitation was over what it would mean for my love life. By moving from a large dating pool to a small...

29.04.2024 30

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Not quite true, not quite false, not yet history: who benefits from Scoop and other ‘real life’ TV stories?

When Prince Andrew appeared on Newsnight in November 2019, he dispelled any lingering doubt in the notion that truth is stranger than fiction. If you...

05.04.2024 20

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There’s a crisis in male fertility. But you wouldn’t know it from the way many men behave

Women are rarely given the chance to forget about our biological clocks: their starting, slowing, stopping. I remember talking about whether I’d...

12.03.2024 20

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If it’s really ‘catastrophic’ for a boys’ school to go coed, I fear for the future of gen Z

Some news from the antipodes: a private boys’ school in Sydney is planning to allow female pupils for the first time. Before you move on with your...

07.02.2024 20

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With inheritance about to divide millennials into haves and have-nots, solidarity comes at a price

The millennial generation, we’ve long been told, is also generation rent: prevented from buying a home of their own, and growing their wealth with...

03.01.2024 20

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So, Spotify knows how many hours I spent listening to Taylor Swift. But only I know why

How was my 2023? Pretty good, thanks. I spent 60 hours at my local cinema and 51 days listening to music from 170 genres (chiefly “art pop”)....

28.12.2023 8

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Britain, a nation of dog lovers? Look at all the spoilt or abandoned pups, then tell me what you think

In the nicest possible way, Britons have always been a bit silly about animals. “Keeping pets, for the English, is not so much a leisure activity as...

25.12.2023 20

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Robbie Williams’s tale is one of tabloid vitriol, but our dark obsession with celebrity lingers still

Netflix’s new documentary delivers on its promise of presenting Robbie Williams as you’ve never seen him before, and not just in showing the...

08.11.2023 5

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We should all get ‘heartbreak leave’ – but oh, the irony that it’s Giorgia Meloni leading the charge

One Monday morning, many years ago, I was riding the bus to work. As it came to a stop at the corner where I always got off, I found I remained...

25.10.2023 4

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Modern culture has ripped away girls’ childhood, taking their joy with it

I t’s never been easy, as Britney Spears sang, to be “not a girl, not yet a woman”. But a new survey carried out for Girlguiding shows that...

18.09.2023 20

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