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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate

The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate
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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

What price a wonderful Santa memory for you and your kid? Try £24: ‘ho, ho, ho’ not included

Did you take your kids to see Santa this year? If so, how much did you pay? At one grotto in Winchester, it was £18.50 per child and £6 per adult,...

17.12.2024 3

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Meet Ms Rachel, the YouTube goddess worshipped by toddlers and parents alike

There’s a woman in my house every day who my toddler loves almost as much as he loves me, and her name is Ms Rachel. If you don’t spend much time...

22.11.2024 6

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

My moth hell has given me sympathy for all fellow sufferers – even the 1%

While reading of the case of the super-rich couple suing the previous owners of their west London mansion over its moth infestation, one...

14.11.2024 9

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

People around the world are appalled by Trump’s win, but women have been gripped by a visceral horror

If Donald Trump’s previous administration taught us anything, it’s that women’s bodies do not matter. The autonomy of those bodies, the...

07.11.2024 100

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Don’t ‘boy mum’ me. These stereotypes around raising children do enormous harm

According to the internet, I’m a “boy mum”. It’s not a term I’d heard until I gave birth to a baby boy. Suddenly, I was being bombarded with...

25.10.2024 8

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

To men who still want ‘proof’ of women’s pain: be careful what you wish for

How’s your pain threshold? For a few months now, I’ve been obsessively watching videos of men trying period pain simulators. The machines have...

14.10.2024 9

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Great men do wear their babies – the days of criticising a father for carrying his child are over

This week’s viral paternity-leave campaign stunt, placing baby dolls in slings on statues of men such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thierry Henry...

19.09.2024 2

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Parental leave isn’t a holiday or a ‘year off’ – so don’t pit parents against workers

Maternity leave is not a holiday. It is not a break, a sabbatical, a retreat, a period of respite. It is not “checking out”, time off, a gap year,...

14.09.2024 7

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Meet the postpartum punks – a primal scream in the face of all tradwives

It’s a greyish Saturday afternoon in late August, and alongside other street party attenders, I’m watching two flamboyantly dressed women, one...

08.09.2024 3

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

I’m with Kirstie Allsopp – parents have to let go, and allow their kids to roam

Would you let your 15-year-old go Interrailing? This is the question that has provoked enough impassioned discussion to make it on to the Today...

23.08.2024 20

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Narcissistic, invasive, annoying? No way – the voice note is a lifeline

What is it about the voice note that bothers so many people? I’ve seen it accused of all sorts – of being narcissistic, invasive, annoying – yet...

08.08.2024 10

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

When is inconsolable crying a sign of something worse? Parents aren’t getting the advice they need

Babies cry. This we know. But some cry dramatically more than others. Many parents have the experience of being told their inconsolable child has...

30.07.2024 1

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A few days of sunshine won’t fool me – we’re in the UK’s worst summer ever

That’s it, I’m calling it: this is the worst summer ever. Despite the fact we are currently seeing a fleeting glimpse of sun, the weather has...

18.07.2024 3

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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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