Vicky Spratt

“I was seeing someone and he ended it. Well, it was a classic fade out – it ended but it didn’t. My friends swooped in and told me to block him,?

In 2021, it’s safe to say we’re no longer as afraid of growing older as we once were. The beauty industry is slowly phasing out the term “

“I have no idea what my friendships look like now,” says 32-year-old Janelle*. “Since the pandemic, one of my closest friends, who I used

I am staring at a WhatsApp message. It’s from one of my closest friends and contains dates and restaurant names. In the run-up to lockdown easing, she ha

How are you supposed to be a person in a world that increasingly makes no sense? Honestly, I don’t know but I keep asking myself this question. The menta

During March, as lockdown descended, a young woman in her late 20s moved in with a man she had been dating on and off since December. Coronavirus, it turne

On the day that the scale of the coronavirus crisis hit me, I was at the Department of Health. It was early in the morning and I was there for a breakfast

If lockdown were a woman, she’d be a middle class young professional with around 300,000 Instagram followers. She’d be posting about finally writing th

Jane Austen is now so dead that she’s on a banknote. And yet, two centuries since she died, society’s attempts to write the endings of single w

In 1968 Gloria Steinem wrote a satirical essay called “If Men Could Menstruate”. It imagined a world in reverse, one in which men had periods a

Earlier this year Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey asked his 4.19 million followers a question: Been playing with fasting for some time. I do a 22 hour fast dai

I wasn’t there when my grandfather died but I had been there plenty of times when he didn’t. I’d sat in the ICU at Croydon University Hospital in 200