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Bastian Dash

Fin de siècle

At some point every story sounds the same… Well not quite the same. There are always variant themes, dependent upon one’s latest adventure, but in the end it’s like one series too many of a former favourite TV show. In other words, you’re better off with the odd one-off special now and again to stop […]
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Toyboy Warehouse

Commitment: One Woman’s View

I’m in a long-standing relationship… with the fear of commitment. Really, it’s true. I’m not quite sure when this liaison begun, but we’ve been together for quite some time. And like some couples feel that they’re halves of one another, I too feel that my lack of inclination to commit, is part of who I […]
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Life begins at 40

Life begins at 40!

For those of you who didn’t see the article in last Sunday’s Observer, we’re putting a link here. It really is all about having a positive attitude, not your age. “Single women in their 40s and 50s are increasingly feeling that their love lives are over as men their own age use online dating to […]
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Female lawyer

Women In Their 20s Are Smashing The Glass Ceiling

British women in their twenties have smashed the glass ceiling and are now being paid more than their male counterparts – reversing the traditional “gender gap” in pay for the first time. This is the only age group for which this is true. According to the Office for National Statistics, women aged 22 to 29 […]
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Happiness

Time for Happiness

Our search to understand what makes humans happy (or happier) goes back centuries. As does our enduring belief that if we just do the right thing, happiness will follow — that additional happiness will be doled out to us because we earned it, not due to the largess of a benevolent being. “Happiness is not […]
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I'd rather be drinking gin & tonic

Gin is a Tonic

On Monday morning I didn’t worry too much when I couldn’t find the new pot of Clarins face cream. I knew I’d bought it, you don’t forget spending over £60 on something that you hope will do what it says and replenish age weakened skin! I used an alternative and could almost hear my skin […]
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Dating

Five Myths About Dating

There are some universally acknowledged truths when it comes to dating. These themes are repeated on sitcoms, in romantic comedies and the popular media. But we’re living in a society that’s changing faster than ever before and what was true a few years ago may not still be so. According to science, most of it […]
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The difference between male and female politicians

Politics: When Girls Won’t Be Boys

There was a collective rolling of the eyes and a distinct sense of “Here we go again” among the women of the House of Representatives last week when yet another male politician, Representative Anthony D. Weiner, confessed his “terrible mistakes” and declared himself “deeply sorry for the pain” he had caused in sexual escapades so […]
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Is Marriage Going Out of Fashion?

According to the most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, the married population in the UK is expected to drop to just 41 per cent in 20 years, compared with 49 per cent now. The average groom in Britain is for the first time now the same age as his bride. In the 1960s, […]
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Dancing girl

Are you Amortal?

“I can’t quite claim to be a true Boomer (The term Alpha Boomer was recently coined in the US to describe 55- to 64-year-olds, currently the fastest-growing demographic in that nation.) I was born in 1967 – says Laura Tennant in a recent article in the Independent, but with 50 edging ever closer, I’m fascinated […]
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