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Zoe Strimpel

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Booking a holiday has become a nightmare

Back the 1980s, travel agents controlled 90 per cent of all holiday bookings in the UK, face-to-face or via phone, with thousands of agencies and high...

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Zoe Strimpel

The offensive farce of Hackney’s urge to de-twin with Haifa

For those still paying attention to the evil mischief indulged in and spread by the anti-Zionism-obsessed Green party, a sizeable 30 of whose local...

31.07.2026 40

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The problem with Maga maternity wear

The gestation of Usha Vance’s fourth baby – born on Sunday – has made for a politically revealing spectacle. Not only was she the only Second...

24.07.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

Meet my snooty AI sommelier

My grandparents’ home was a proper house, on the cusp of the Hampstead Heath Extension, with roses and flagstones at the front. It was the sort that...

19.06.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

Meet my snooty AI sommelier

My grandparents’ home was a proper house, on the cusp of the Hampstead Heath Extension, with roses and flagstones at the front. It was the sort that...

16.06.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

I’m a recovering biscuit addict

Have you heard of National Biscuit Day, a McVities marketing concoction, which came and went last week? Probably not, but in my view, it was as...

03.06.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

How Naomi Osaka dressed to kill the ‘womanosphere’

The landscape in which female beauty trends play out is increasingly mean and ludicrous, just when it should be less prone to obsession and...

30.05.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

The Hay Festival has forgotten about books

Can it be anything more than sour grapes when a writer (who has not been asked) gets snarky about the Hay Festival? I’d like to think it can. For...

22.05.2026 20

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Married at First Sight has always been horrific

Sometimes I just don’t have the emotional bandwidth to watch a series of Married at First Sight UK, a.k.a. MAFSUK, because it is one of the most...

20.05.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

Your hormones aren’t linked to the stars

For most women, the time between your first and last period is defined by things other than the phases of the menstrual cycle. Or at least it used to...

19.05.2026 40

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Zoe Strimpel

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,...

05.05.2026 30

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Zoe Strimpel

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,...

05.05.2026 30

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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,...

24.04.2026 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 50

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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 30

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Zoe Strimpel