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The Gen-Z fliers obsessed with maximising their air miles

latest 7

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Zoe Strimpel

Sadiq Khan and the truth about Brick Lane curry

Sadiq Khan and the truth about Brick Lane curry
yesterday 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Diversity / Sadiq Khan and the truth about Brick Lane curry

Diversity /					 													 						Sadiq Khan and the truth about Brick Lane curry
yesterday 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Diversity / Sadiq Khan and the truth about Brick Lane curry

Diversity /					 													 						Sadiq Khan and the truth about Brick Lane curry
yesterday 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Points of honour / The Gen-Z fliers obsessed with maximising their air miles

thursday 4

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The Gen-Z fliers obsessed with maximising their air miles

thursday 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Model behaviour / Is Kate Moss… basic?

Model behaviour /					 													 						Is Kate Moss… basic?
04.03.2025 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Claw and order / We need a cat lockdown now

Claw and order /					 													 						We need a cat lockdown now
19.02.2025 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Bridget Jones is no feminist

14.02.2025 10

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Zoe Strimpel

The brash shall inherit the Earth

07.02.2025 9

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Zoe Strimpel

A tall order / Shoppers like me will pay the price for Waitrose’s free coffee perk

25.01.2025 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Shoppers like me will pay the price for Waitrose’s free coffee perk

25.01.2025 20

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Zoe Strimpel

Are we calling too many fat people obese?

16.01.2025 4

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Zoe Strimpel

Where Wales went wrong

12.01.2025 30

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Zoe Strimpel

In defence of Gail’s

A few months ago in Primrose Hill, I overheard a woman from the Camden New Journal, the local paper, asking in a café about rumours of a Gail’s...

07.01.2025 6

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Zoe Strimpel

The tragedy of Jocelyn Wildenstein

When I saw that Jocelyn Wildenstein, aka the Bride of (art dealer Alec) Wildenstein, had died at the age of 84, I began compulsively flicking...

05.01.2025 4

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Zoe Strimpel

Cold blast / Spare us from ‘amber’ weather warnings

With quiet, sinister inevitability, the health and safety edifice has been marching through the festive season, capturing new terrain. Arguably the...

04.01.2025 6

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Zoe Strimpel

Spare us from ‘amber’ weather warnings

With quiet, sinister inevitability, the health and safety edifice has been marching through the festive season, capturing new terrain. Arguably the...

03.01.2025 4

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Zoe Strimpel

Does Lambeth Council care about women’s safety?

Being a woman walking on the street at night, especially on your own, is still scary. No matter that we live in an age of progressiveness and equal...

19.12.2024 4

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Zoe Strimpel

Pour us / How Gen Z ruined Guinness

James Joyce called Guinness ‘the wine of Ireland’. Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol – as much brash branding as beer. Once, it...

17.12.2024 4

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Zoe Strimpel

How the Groucho lost its lustre

This week, the Groucho Club in Soho had its licence suspended by Westminster Council after a request from the Metropolitan police, who are...

29.11.2024 3

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Zoe Strimpel

There’s nothing worse than an entitled restaurateur

Going to restaurants used to be fun. So much so that in the first two booze-sloshed decades of the 21st century, restaurants were the key setting...

15.11.2024 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Sweet escape / Ozempic and the sugar coating of reality

Old or young, fat or thin, body-positive or body-embarrassed, man or woman, everyone with money seems to be on a weight-loss drug: Ozempic, Wegovy...

22.10.2024 2

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Zoe Strimpel

The horror of Sandbanks

In the showy harbourside enclave of Sandbanks, in Dorset, properties regularly go for upward of £7 million; one bungalow there recently sold for...

18.10.2024 3

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Zoe Strimpel

Spain makes for an awful holiday

Spain is busy with an image update. Thanks to a host of savvy media stories, we’re now supposed to think of Spain not just in terms of package...

25.09.2024 3

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Zoe Strimpel

Middle-aged Swifties are weird

The Starmers were supposed to have the moral high ground – at least according to Labour eschatology – and yet we read of their grubby relationship...

20.09.2024 20

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Zoe Strimpel

What Brits don’t understand about American diners

Few will mourn the demise of TGI Fridays, which collapsed into administration this week. The restaurant chain’s 87 branches in the UK have been put...

20.09.2024 10

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Zoe Strimpel

Keffiyeh Karens / Gen-Z mean girls are aggressive and progressive

When Black Lives Matter created the figure of the Karen, it was a sign of that movement’s darker, bullying qualities. What exactly was wrong with a...

04.09.2024 4

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Zoe Strimpel

A beginner’s guide / How to shop at Waitrose

Over the years, I have spent a pretty penny on therapy. I have also spent a lot of money in Waitrose, of which there is a big branch that I like to...

13.08.2024 3

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Zoe Strimpel

Ottolenghi has colonised British food

As far as chefs and food writers go, Yotam Ottolenghi has been pretty influential on my life – a life that revolves quite heavily around food....

30.07.2024 5

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Zoe Strimpel