I braced myself for today’s eye test. Not because I’m squeamish, but because turning 50 has come with a steady stream of “system updates” and a flurry of NHS invites for every condition under the sun. Breast screening, bowel screening,…
If you’d told me at 23 that by 50 I’d be relying on artificial intelligence to get through a day, I would have laughed so hard I might have spilled my coffee. Back then, the Internet was just a curiosity.…
Why Persian gatherings are never small There are two things you learn very quickly when you marry into a Persian family. The first is that there is no such thing as a small gathering. The second is that if you…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves may be promising to tame inflation, but the truth is, I don’t need a Budget. I need a power nap from over-spending at this time of year. When she unveiled her spending plan this week, I did…
There is big news in women’s health, The Menopause in Practice Awards (MiP) are back for 2026, and this year, for the first time, they are handing the power directly to women. A brand-new Consumer Choice Award category has been…
There is a strange moment that happens in a woman’s 40s. And it sneaks up somewhere between figuring out why your nine-year-old has suddenly decided he doesn’t like tomatoes and trying to remember the last time you drank a coffee…
If you’re a female founder in midlife, let me be blunt, most brands like yours are doing PR the hard way. Hours of outreach, press lists that land in the wrong inboxes, scattered social posts… and hardly any traction. It’s…