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Rachel Odwyer

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‘Of course I remember the bank strikes,’ my mother says. ‘Your dad took to carrying a gun’

13.01.2025 10

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Rachel Odwyer

My friend sends me a dizzying list of pills for what she calls ‘biohacking perimenopause’

My friend Suzy and I visit a luxury forest spa before Christmas. Neither of us are really sure what we are supposed to actually do in the luxury...

05.01.2025 8

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Rachel Odwyer

Love and the housing crisis: Living together because the rent is too high

On a freezing evening in November, I walk to my friend’s house for drinks. His ex-girlfriend, who is still his housemate, is travelling for work....

08.12.2024 10

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Rachel Odwyer

‘Tell me, Margaret. Are you a women’s libber?’ Housewife of the Year was the original endurance event

This is surely the year of the housewife. As the good life, and the goods that go with it – the house, the car, the perfect children – moves out of...

25.11.2024 3

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How Trump’s election sent Bitcoin soaring again

When Donald Trump went head to head with Kamala Harris in a debate on September 11th, the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum dipped momentarily,...

14.11.2024 3

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Rachel Odwyer

From ‘brat summer’ to ‘demure Kamala’: how Gen Z are tearing up the rules of mainstream politics

Brat summer? Picture walking through the blazing debris of a Spice Girls reunion concert that’s been ravaged by the zombie apocalypse. Got it?...

22.09.2024 2

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Why do women feel it’s our job to appease men like Angry Dad?

I was on a Qatar Airways flight recently, in a window seat at the back of the plane. Beside me was a husband whose wife and toddler were seated in...

08.09.2024 2

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Rachel Odwyer