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Zing Tsjeng

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Will millennials ever catch a break?

Will millennials ever catch a break?
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Millennials are realising children are just not worth it – emotionally or financially

Millennials are realising children are just not worth it – emotionally or financially
31.03.2025 5

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The viral 'morning shed' skincare regime has a dangerous reality

The viral 'morning shed' skincare regime has a dangerous reality
25.03.2025 5

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What Adolescence gets wrong

What Adolescence gets wrong
19.03.2025 10

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Boomers are actually just as lazy as Gen Z

12.03.2025 8

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The reason young people are out of work is more complex than you think

04.03.2025 3

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Millennials are about to get very rich – or so we all thought

25.02.2025 3

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The way we gossip about celebrities just took a much darker turn

18.02.2025 3

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Reform UK will fail. Here's why

12.02.2025 10

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Should taxpayers be supporting pole-dancing? Absolutely

09.02.2025 10

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The latest victim of the cost of living crisis: Our friendships

29.01.2025 10

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I'm single in a relationship recession - but please don't feel sorry for me

22.01.2025 2

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Mark Zuckerberg has sounded the death knell for all diversity initiatives

15.01.2025 3

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In Meghan’s glossy, aspirational world, women can have it all

In 1861, Isabella Beeton wrote in The Book of Household Management: “Among the gifts that nature has bestowed on woman, few rank higher than the...

08.01.2025 4

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Women no longer know how to age appropriately

There’s a scene in The Substance, the gnarly body horror hit of the year, that still haunts me. Demi Moore’s washed-up starlet Elisabeth Sparkle...

30.12.2024 10

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Barron Trump and his Gen Z peers hold the power now - criticise them at your peril

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but 2024 is the year that those born in 1997 – the halcyon days in which Katrina and The Waves won Eurovision and...

26.12.2024 3

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The truth about Britain's nightlife

Thinking about going out out for New Year’s Eve? You might have to make alternative plans. According to some particularly overheated sections of...

15.12.2024 6

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Young people aren't being told the truth about homeownership

“Wow,” someone once told me when they saw my place for the first time. “You have a lot of… stuff.” He was looking at the cabinet I fondly...

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I look back on my gap year in horror

I distinctly remember the first indication that something was going wrong on my gap year. My friend and I had flown into India and emerged from New...

26.11.2024 3

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Sex parties and a new bike - how to have a millennial midlife crisis

What’s in a midlife crisis? It used to be that this period of age-related angst was the sole preserve of men in their forties and fifties, who...

20.11.2024 5

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How to tell if you are a 'mankeeper' – and how to stop

Ladies, do you know where your husband or boyfriend is tonight? Or do you at least have a pretty solid idea already, seeing as you were the one who...

12.11.2024 7

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Beware of the early riser - it's night owls that make life worth living

I’ve been a creature of the night all my life, or, as Daily Mail columnist and avowed early riser Peter Hitchens puts it, a “late-rising childless...

06.11.2024 10

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The new ways you are apparently posh in 2024

What japes! Poshness is back in the headlines thanks to Rivals, the wildly entertaining Jilly Cooper series on Disney . The bonkbuster adaptation...

29.10.2024 4

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The huge strings attached to Elon Musk's million-dollar giveaway

Have you heard the one about the world’s richest man, the convicted former president and the one million-dollar giveaway? It sounds like the...

22.10.2024 3

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Are you a ‘healthy’ drinker? I have some home truths for you

You’re at the bar, trying to rationalise another drink on a Thursday. “Doesn’t research that says booze in moderation is fine – even good for...

16.10.2024 10

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The social epidemic that is spreading like wildfire

We’re facing an epidemic – loneliness. According to new US research, one in eight people feel lonely “always” or “usually”, including...

09.10.2024 10

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No books, TV or internet: why I'm all in on a hardcore self-help bible

I can’t remember the last time I left the house without my phone. Of course, I’ve accidentally left it behind and had to do a dramatic U-turn to...

02.10.2024 4

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What all parents should know about ketamine and young people

Long used by doctors and vets as an anaesthetic and painkiller, ketamine is listed by the World Health Organisation as an essential medicine for...

18.09.2024 10

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We don't need a gay James Bond

Film press conferences are strange affairs. Stars and directors are herded in front of a room of journalists perspiring from the stress of needing...

10.09.2024 8

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Feeling miserable? Here's how to deal with the September 'scaries'

The mercury might still be hitting 20°C in some parts of Britain, but you aren’t alone if you’ve been gripped by a strange melancholy and a...

04.09.2024 4

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The line between superfan and stalker is becoming increasingly blurred

If you’re interested in pop culture, you’ll know that the narrative around the treatment of female celebrities has settled into a well-worn groove....

27.08.2024 3

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I'm so obsessed with planning my perfect trip I forget to actually 'holiday'

I’m managing a big project at the moment. It involves multiple Google Docs files, several important stakeholders – and more than one Zoom meeting....

06.08.2024 3

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Rich people have terrible taste - and I think I know why

An underground basketball court, built according to the NBA-regulation standards. A golf course designed to favour your swing so you never lose a...

30.07.2024 7

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What people get wrong about women-only spaces

Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel The Power hinges on a singular question: what does a world free from male violence look like? The sci-fi author posits...

16.07.2024 2

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