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Lucy Mangan

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Dear Lucy... A letter to my younger self

Dear Lucy... A letter to my younger self
yesterday 4

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I feel an impending sense of doom since I saw what my child had been doing online

I feel an impending sense of doom since I saw what my child had been doing online
16.02.2025 5

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What I learnt about feminism from raising a son

What I learnt about feminism from raising a son
08.02.2025 10

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Why don't people like their children anymore?

31.01.2025 2

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Don't punish people for working from home – just weed out the lazy shirkers

27.01.2025 7

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My mortality has hit me - and I feel incandescent with fury

20.01.2025 4

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I've been penny-pinching for years - now I realise my time is priceless

13.01.2025 3

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My sister bought me weight-loss jabs for Christmas - I'm so grateful

I have never felt more excited nor more of an irredeemable moral failure than I do right now. Over Christmas, my sister subscribed me to one of the...

05.01.2025 2

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My petty list of everything that must be abolished if I am going to live happily in 2025

Oh, it’s time to make New Year resolutions again, is it? Time for us all to dwell on our faults and foibles and vow to improve them all, find ways...

29.12.2024 2

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Two satin shirts, technology and why the world is going to hell in a handcart

I’ve been sold a lie. Not the lie about festive cheer or goodwill to all men – I never bought that, even in my youngest, freshest, brightest-eyed,...

15.12.2024 4

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Men, please ask yourself why so many women would rather parent alone

Women be crazy! You know it, I know it! And now they’re at their madness again. According to a new report by the Human Fertilisation and Embryo...

05.12.2024 7

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I surround myself with people who agree with me – it’s the only way to survive

What are you doing just sitting here reading a paper that roughly aligns with your world view? Haven’t you heard we all need to get out of our...

25.11.2024 4

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The pampering industry could be letting lazy husbands off the hook

In a near-unprecedented move, I have spent money. In an even more nearly unprecedented move, I have spent money I didn’t need to spend and I have...

18.11.2024 3

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Radical optimism is the way through times like this

A friend rang me after the US election results had handed the people an orange victory. “Now is the time for radical optimism!” she shouted down...

10.11.2024 2

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Halloween is stupid, pointless and increasingly dangerous

The only bright spot of this stupid, pointless, infuriating time of year is that at least my own child’s devotion to trick or treating has finally...

28.10.2024 3

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How I confronted my manspreader

Aaaand this is why I don’t go out. But work commitments in London had forced me on to the Tube. This is the bowels of hell anyway – thousands of...

20.10.2024 2

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Students no longer read long books - I blame gentle parenting

When I was taking GCSEs – back in the days when they were still newfangled things and your parents still referred to them as O-levels, we read...

14.10.2024 3

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Why are we feeding so much fast food to our kids? Ask men

Ever since Chris van Tulleken made a documentary and wrote a book on the subject, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have been having a moment as THE...

07.10.2024 2

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Yes, I am jealous of Gen Z and their obsession with books

I am rarely envious of the young. Have you seen the world out there? And they’ve got to live in it! For ages yet! In rented accommodation with...

29.09.2024 10

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I thought I’d stop worrying about my looks as I aged – how wrong I was

I was reading a review of The Substance, Demi Moore’s new film about an ageing Hollywood actress who succumbs to the allure of a new procedure that...

23.09.2024 2

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What on earth did we do before comfort TV?

I have a crush! My God, it’s been years – I hardly know what to do with myself. It’s on Only Murders in the Building . I’ve just finished the first...

15.09.2024 1

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For proof that the property market is mad, look no further than toilets

My husband and I (and my son, I suppose, though I tend to think of him as one of the things we’ll have to pack and take with us rather than an...

09.09.2024 6

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I've had enough of people who think they're experts

I went to the doctor this week and after listening to a brief rundown of my symptoms he said “And what do you think is wrong?” To which I said...

01.09.2024 2

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Modern life is too noisy – and I won't be silenced

Am I to get no peace? This is not a rhetorical question. It is not the plangent cry of a mother on her knees, so close to the end and yet still not...

25.08.2024 1

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Hen dos in your forties are just indecent

You think you’re safe. You think the one thing that age and decrepitude brings is a certain amount of protection from particular horrors. And then,...

19.08.2024 3

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We are stupid and greedy - that's why holidays must be rationed

You see – this is why we can’t have nice things. Human stupidity. And greed. Human stupidigreed. Specifically, this time, we cannot have nice...

12.08.2024 3

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Upset by a rogue apostrophe? Join my pedants' revolt

I have saddled my horse, checked my spurs and mail, looked to my troops and pronounce myself ready. A battle has broken out in North Yorkshire and...

05.08.2024 3

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Are you finding it hard to read for pleasure? This is why

There was a time when I would have greeted the news that a third of adults have stopped reading for pleasure with absolute astonishment. Utter...

29.07.2024 2

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