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Zoe Strimpel

The Telegraph

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No, we don’t all need therapy

No, we don’t all need therapy

Only the most heartless fantasist would deny the life-saving role that therapy plays in helping people manage mental illness. Some people, of course,...

yesterday 5

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Zoe Strimpel

No, we don’t all need therapy

No, we don’t all need therapy

Only the most heartless fantasist would deny the life-saving role that therapy plays in helping people manage mental illness. Some people, of course,...

yesterday 10

The Spectator

Zoe Strimpel

Lady luck / Lena Dunham’s memoir is everything wrong with feminism today

Is the right to be angry and miserable the best that modern feminism can do? Or is it possible, while acknowledging that things are far from perfect,...

24.04.2026 9

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Zoe Strimpel

Lady luck / Lena Dunham’s memoir is everything wrong with feminism today

Is the right to be angry and miserable the best that modern feminism can do? Or is it possible, while acknowledging that things are far from perfect,...

23.04.2026 8

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Zoe Strimpel

The soft power of Ukrainian food

New wars bring new fundraising efforts. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians who already lived in London or moved here as a result of the...

15.04.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

The American idyll still exists

Though I hadn’t lived there since 1998, when I was 16 and Bill Clinton was in power, I’d always defended America. Sure, it had flaws. Big...

30.03.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

The vandalism of Banksy

The forces of taste, fashion and regard have long colluded in a disconcerting way around Banksy. He is an ‘artist’ that the great and the good...

22.03.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Wimps aren’t welcome at the Winter Olympics

My family skied a lot. We did it home-style, with packed lunches and Mars Bars on the lifts, my brother and me following my expert Milan-raised father...

17.02.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

The puerile fantasy of Bridgerton Britain

10.02.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Meno-bores / Is perimenopause a myth?

04.02.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Unhappy families / Brooklyn Beckham is so typical of his spoilt generation

24.01.2026 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Brooklyn Beckham is so typical of his spoilt generation

24.01.2026 20

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Zoe Strimpel

Vanity fare / Italian food is revolting

07.01.2026 20

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Zoe Strimpel

I’m a Jew who loves Christmas

23.12.2025 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Festive spirit / I’m a Jew who loves Christmas

23.12.2025 10

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Zoe Strimpel

A snob’s guide to last-minute Christmas gifts

18.12.2025 20

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Bring on the sexy builders

05.12.2025 10

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How will Britain survive without Sally Rooney?

02.12.2025 10

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