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Square Mile
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"A 14-year-old is stood at the pool’s edge, weighed down by thoughts that cannot be explained, and encumbered by a body that is off-key with the mind’s melody. An attractive boy is about to enter the water. He approaches. He takes off his shirt. He is wearing a bikini. He is a girl."
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Square Mile
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"In the first year of the Warehouse Project, a close friend of its founder Sacha Lord-Marchionne asked him for a favour. This friend happened to head up A&R for Sony, and he wondered if one of his artists could play on the bill for New Year’s Eve. “The bill was fully booked, but they begged and begged,” recalls Lord-Marchionne. “So, we put him on from 9-10pm. Doors opened at 9.30pm, so for the first half hour he didn’t realise he was playing to a venue that wasn’t even open. We paid him £200 and argued over his train fare because he came first class, and we never agreed on a first-class ticket.” That guy was Calvin Harris."
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Interview
Square Mile
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"About seven years ago my brother and I decided to get into the bag industry. We looked into the current offerings and we found a lot of sport-driven brands and luxury-driven brands. We took the category and stripped it down and looked to inject design and attention to detail, but also simplicity into a product category that we felt needed a nice strong anchor. We wanted a utility item, something that celebrated the design aspect, that was thoughtful, and we also wanted something that was not loud and in everybody’s face."
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Online Articles
Film & TV
Time Out
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"Bridgerton season 3 proved to be an eventful one in the ‘ton. Quick recap: after years of wallflowering, Penelope Bridgerton (Nicola Coughlan) took centre stage as the object of Colin Bridgerton’s (Luke Newton) affections. The pair navigated their fledgling love while Penelope tried – and failed – to hide her identity as Lady Whistledown. She was eventually forced into the light by Queen Charlotte’s quest for the truth, a pink pretender better known as Cressida Cowper and good old fashioned guilt. Colin forgave her for the deception, she and Eloise become BFFs again and the gossip column continues circulation, this time with a new signature.
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Profile
Time Out
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"Growing up on a council estate in Manchester in the early ’00s, Yasmin Finney’s childhood dream was to be a lollipop lady. While her classmates fantasised about being Buzz Lightyear or Hannah Montana, her inspiration was Catherine, the woman in the high-vis who ushered her safely home from school. ‘She was my favourite person. She would command the road with that lollipop,’ she tells me on Zoom, her Pomeranian pup Coconut draped on her lap like a blanket. ‘I wanted to be her."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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"Three years after fleeing London and killing off a few life peers alongside his waistcoat clad alter ego, Professor Jonathan Moore, Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is back on home turf for the final season of ‘You.’ The bloodthirsty bookseller we’ve come to know, loathe – and occasionally questionably root for - has put his grave-digging days behind him. He’s settled into the role of dutiful husband to CEO wife Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), appearing on red carpets and magazine covers as the Prince Charming to her C-suite, and playing happy families with his previously estranged son Henry in a brownstone on the Upper East Side."
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Travel
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"Forget Disneyland or the Seven Wonders, these 21 weird and wonderful locations are something very different. From a mermaid-friendly post office and bubblegum-pink lake to a Soviet town lost in time, Mickey's got nothing on these oddball attractions."
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Travel
The Life of Luxury
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"It’s 2pm on a Tuesday, and I’m lying on a warm marble slab beneath the domed ceiling of a hammam, while a middle-aged Turkish woman pours generous bucketfuls of foamy water over my legs and chest. Part ritual, part performance, the experience is both otherworldly and oddly grounding. With expert precision, she scrubs, massages and exfoliates, removing layers of Istanbul that have clung to my skin like memory."
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Music
Time Out
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"Last year, I spent my birthday trying (and failing) to retain my modesty while riding a mechanical bull at a central London cocktail bar. Three pals were lassoed into Buck N’ Bull Saloon, a country-themed pop-up that hosts line-dancing and live music events across the UK. Despite my enthusiasm, the rest of my friends made their excuses and stayed away."
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Health
Cosmopolitan
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"If you’re a woman who hit puberty somewhere between Heath Ledger murdering a Frankie Vally classic (10 Thing I Hate About You) and Jesse Metcalfe playing a game of basketball in a pink thong (John Tucker Must Die), chances are your perception of virginity isn’t a particularly healthy one. In most coming-of-age romcoms, having sex for the first time is seen as a teenage rite of passage, with school-age virgins being the low hanging fruit school bullies feast on before football practice. Think Emma Stone’s 17-year-old Olive in Easy A or the endlessly memeable “you’re a virgin who can’t drive” one-liner from Clueless."
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Health
Refinery29
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"It’s time we all had a frank conversation about hormonal contraception. At present, around 3 million women in England are taking the combined contraceptive pill – that’s twice the population of Manhattan. Worldwide, the number surpasses 100 million. For the vast majority, it does what it says on the tin, providing reproductive autonomy and ensuring that an unwanted pregnancy doesn’t automatically follow having sex. However, for too many there are side effects. Weight gain, mood swings, nausea, loss of libido and breakthrough bleeding are seen as par for the course and generally accepted as a small price to pay for preventing unplanned pregnancies. For an unlucky few, the consequences are far more severe."​
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First person
Teen Vogue
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​​"I remember that phone call like it was yesterday. It was just before 7 a.m. on a cloudy Florida morning, the week after Easter. I had just woken up and planned to steal the bed sheets from my sister so I could get back to sleeping until midday. But my phone rang and put a stop to that. Somehow I knew the next few seconds would change my life. I just wasn’t ready for how."
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Relationships
Vice
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​​"Modern dating is a bitch. Between swiping right, deciding who pays for what and figuring out if you can still make it to your desk from an ill-advised hookup in Morden, it’s a lot of hassle for a hangover. At best, bad dates are a welcome upgrade from Brexit water-cooler chat. At worst, he goes guerrilla and finds you on LinkedIn."
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First person
Teen Vogue
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"Last Monday I found myself crying inconsolably on my parents’ bathroom floor. Bubbles dangled from my overgrown hair as Spotify played John Mayer’s saddest songs. I caught my breath and let my stomach free fall as heartbreak finally hit me. The worst part? It was caused by a man I’d never met.
A few months ago if you’d told me I’d become so emotionally attached to a black and white picture and a sleepy voice, my eyes would have rolled. But strange things happen during global pandemics."
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Health
Time Out
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"I was recently at a house party; the night punctuated by beer pong, dilating pupils and lightheaded chats. But there was a weight in the air. ‘Roe v Wade’ had recently been overturned in the US (a ruling which took away the federal right to an abortion in all 50 states) and the men in the room – a mix of progressive lawyer types and Tory-voting Oxbridge grads – had assembled in the corner to discuss it."
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Profile
Time Out
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​​"Luke Thompson is having his cake and eating it. Figuratively: that’s how he describes simultaneously filming season three of ‘Bridgerton’, Netflix’s hugely successful TV series, and rehearsing for Ivo van Hove’s West End stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel ‘A Little Life.’ And literally: he’s tucking into a vanilla-and-passionfruit cake while chatting about his busy schedule, using words like ‘lucky’ and ‘blessed’ as he munches away in Terry’s, a 1940s time-capsule caff in Southwark."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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​​"Four years after becoming a New York Times Bestseller, American author Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue is getting the movie treatment. Landing on Prime Video on August 11, the BookTok favourite follows the secret romance between the son of the US President, Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), and Henry, Britain’s royal spare (Nicholas Galitzine). Having let their ongoing feud cause an international incident – more on that later – the high-profile and sickeningly good-looking pair are forced on a diplomatic mission to play nice. And given the flick’s R-rating, play nice they do."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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​​"The fourth and final season of ‘Sex Education’ hits Netflix later this month, just in time for freshers’ week/cuffing season/the whole bed-rotting trend. The new trailer has dropped and things are looking as juicy as ever for the students of Moordale High."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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​"If you’re suffering from a pink-coloured gap in your life after last year’s Barbie-mania, you don’t have long to wait for a top-up. Mean Girls, a musical remake of the cult 2004 teen comedy with Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, is hitting cinemas across the globe and trying to make ‘fetch’ happen all over again."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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​​"The first four episodes of Bridgerton season three land on Netflix tomorrow and Shonda Rhimes’ period romp is showing no sign of slowing down on the heaving bosoms and sexy Regency shenanigans. This time it's Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin’s (Luke Newton) moment to promenade in the spotlight, as the chemistry between the pair builds to danger levels. If you’re hazy on where season 2 left things, and what to expect from Lady Whistledown’s quill this time out, allow us to deliver this swift briefing epistle to you via silver salver."
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Theatre
Time Out
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​​"In the same way Jack the Ripper has become more of a dark fable than a true crime story about a man brutally murdering five East End women, so the case of Lizzie Borden has passed into Massachusetts folklore."
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Theatre
Time Out
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​‘Unfortunate’ is a musical parody upon which your childhood innocence will be shipwrecked. Ursula the sea witch was the villain in Disney's 1989 classic ‘The Little Mermaid’ (and its recent remake). But this musical retelling of her story is crude, camp and extremely horny."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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​​"Bestselling author, journalist and now TV showrunner, Candice Carty-Williams answers to a few descriptions. But the label she loves most is that of proud South Londoner. Having grown up in Lewisham and bobbed between Croydon, Streatham and Clapham in her 20s and early 30s, she knows the best spots south of the river for film (Peckhamplex), theatre (Brixton House), a manicure (Luna and Wilde), and oxtail (Cool Breeze, Hither Green’s Caribbean takeaway). And of course, she’s written two 100,000-word love letters to the area: her 2019 debut novel ‘Queenie’, now an eagerly anticipated telly series, and its follow up, 2022’s ‘People Person’."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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​​​"Dolly Alderton is probably best known for her voice. As one half of the acclaimed and now ex-podcast ‘The High Low’, alongside her best pal Pandora Sykes, her wheezy cackle and anecdotes about dating, friendship, fiction and feminism led to her unofficial christening as a kind of millennial Helen Fielding. Now the Londoner has adapted her own 2018 memoir, ‘Everything I Know About Love’, into a TV series to bring a similarly relatable lens to the growing pains of your twenties, female friendship, fuck-ups and hook-ups – all set in Camden in the 2010s. Suffering the after-effects of a friends-and-family screening the night before and nursing a slipped disc, she shared its story – and her dream London day."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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"You’d be forgiven for thinking the scariest thing about shooting a film with rugby at its core would be the threat of an 18-stone bruiser landing on your ribcage. But for Alexander Lincoln, who plays one of the leading men in London-set rugby drama In From the Side, it was donning skis that inspired real terror."
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Travel
Time Out
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"For many people, travelling to Jamaica is a pilgrimage. Kingston is the holy land; Bob Marley, the Messiah. While exploring the city that birthed not only a musical legend but a global philosophy of peace and unity, it’s impossible to escape his legacy, whether it’s driving down roads renamed in his honour or walking past the countless murals and statues of his likeness. Such is his presence in the Jamaican capital, you’ll start to question if Marley was a man or a rebel deity styled in dreads."​​
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Travel
Time Out
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​"Think of Finland and chances are happiness, saunas and Lapland come to mind. Or you might immediately think of its capital Helsinki, well-known for its alternative arts and music scene – take boutique festival Flow, which sets up shop in a decommissioned power plant in the centre of the city each summer, or Vallisaari island, a former military base turned art trail that showcases contemporary artworks among a scattering of unexploded landmines. "
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Travel
Time Out
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​​"To a first-time visitor, Grenada is a country that feels honest, unpretentious and largely untouched by the claws of consumerism – a Bali before Instagram. A nature lover’s paradise, there are 60 dive sites, 50 white sand beaches and 15 waterfalls scattered across this tiny, fertile Caribbean nation."
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Travel
Time Out
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​​"Nashville is the Las Vegas of the South. Swap the casinos for rhinestones and multiply by x10000 and you’ve got yourself a party. It’s the land where heartbreak makes country stars, Dolly Rebecca Parton has more authority than the FBI, CIA, SCC and NFL combined and where a good time—and a slight case of tinnitus—is guaranteed. If you’re planning your next girls trip, we’ve found a few not-to-be-missed restaurants and hot pink Honky Tonks you’ll want to add to your Music City bucket list. Below, where to do, drink, party and do a Nashville girls trip right."
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Film & TV
Time Out
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‘They can be soggy vinegar-soaked sticks of grossness or they can be crispy units of delight’. This is how Tim Minchin describes our national delicacy: fish and chips. You might gasp at the fact this is the man we entrusted with bringing Roald Dahl’s classic British children’s book ‘Matilda’ to the West End and now to the big screen, but believe me, the Aussie’s one of us."
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Health
PopSugar
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​​"Olympic cyclist Elinor Barker should be in Tokyo right now, competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Instead, she's in lockdown, and she's passing the time like the majority of people here in the UK: baking treats, enjoying lazy breakfasts in the sun, watching a few episodes of Tiger King, and going for a cycle as part of her government-approved daily exercise. The difference between her and many of us? That bike ride lasts a gruelling five hours and is in addition to rigorous cross-training, as Barker must continue to train for next year's rescheduled Olympic Games."
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First person
The I Paper
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​​​"My childhood home is at the end of the M4, which says it all. Nothing to see beyond this point except a life-size mural of local rugby star Shane Williams, an oak tree which was prophesied by Merlin the wizard and a litany of old people’s homes."
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First person
Insider
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"As lockdown restrictions start to lift around the world, a cocktail of anxiety, insomnia, and paranoia has been stirring in my mind. I'd just about settled into our dystopian reality of banana bread, Zoom quizzes, and TikTok dances when, in the UK, "stay home" changed to "stay alert," and I panicked."
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Fashion
Insider
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"Some things are universally accepted: Wales has the most attractive international rugby team, carrot cake is a criminally underrated dessert, and Blake Lively is the best-dressed celebrity."​​
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Travel
Time Out
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​"The Rome Edition is how I imagine the Emerald City to look if it was designed by Gianni Versace. The boutique hotel is the brand’s 15th outpost, and instead of playing it safe, it’s gone full pazazz. The lobby is pure Italian excess, showcasing the building’s original 1930s Cipollino marble staircase; the floor-to-ceiling jade curtains drawing eyeballs to the high ceilings; an orange-topped pool table acting as much as a statement piece as a sporting arena."
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Travel
Time Out
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​​"Moorgate is a bit of a cultural wasteland on weekends, and, depending on how you feel about finance bros and signet rings, maybe on weekdays too. But the City has started to shake off its stuffy image. Pop-up country-music bar Buck N’ Bull often takes over The Anthologist with line dancing and a mechanical bull, and axe throwing venues like Whistle Punks and Boom Battle Bar are becoming as synonymous with the area as trust funds and plague pits."
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Travel
Time Out
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​​"Wherever you go in The Churchill - in the bar, by the fireplace, even next to your bedside table - you get a strange sense that there’s someone watching you. Because there is. Winston Churchill’s likeness is a signature across the hotel. Paintings of him and copies of his artwork are dotted across the lobby, restaurant, bar and bedrooms, with themed mugs and cocktail books for sale in the on-site shop. There’s even a life-size statue of the ol’ chap at The Churchill Bar so you’ll never drink an Old Fashioned alone."
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Travel
Time Out
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"It might be best-known for bringing Singaporean cuisine and hospitality to the City, but being able to watch the rat race from Pan Pacific London's infinity pool is the highlight of a stay here. There's something about feeling smug in a swimsuit while stock market traders trudge down Bishopsgate below: a 'Freaky Friday'-style power shift that lasts as long as you can afford to play pretend."
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Travel
Time Out
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​​"Run by mammoth hotel chain Radisson, who also run the Park Inn and art 'otel brands, Park Plaza Westminster is a slick operation that also caters to the masses. With 1,023 rooms and suites, it's closer to a cruise ship than to its neighbour and rival, Premier Inn."
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Travel
Time Out
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​​​"It’s already dark when we arrive on Santorini, Greece’s fifth-smallest and arguably most romantic island, but even spying the half-drawn outline of the caldera dotted with pockets of orange and gold from sports bars and living room TV screens was enough to see why almost 2 million tourists – significantly made up of Americans, couples and American couples – flock here each year. By daylight, with the layers of a sapphire sea, red cliffs and iconic blue domes coming into view, it’s clearer still why so many people believe the island is the Lost City of Atlantis."
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Mental health
British GQ
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​"Best known for being a member of the directing staff on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Win, Matthew "Ollie" Ollerton has undertaken countless counterterrorism missions and humanitarian efforts as part of the UK’s special forces. He has looked death in the eye more times than most, having been involved in a freak accident as a child and coming under attack in Iraq. Struggling with suicidal thoughts, he looked to spiritual psychology to help regain balance in his life and now shares those learnings with others through his company, Break-Point. He talked to us about functioning on chaos, his battle with alcohol and depression and dealing in mental wealth."
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Mental health
British GQ
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​​"Shooting to the top of the charts in 2012 with dance-pop anthem “Love Me Again”, John Newman became known the world over as the man with the blond-streaked hair, white socks and soulful voice. However, recently he’s had to balance making music with looking after his physical and mental health. He was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in 2012, which returned in 2016 and was found to be cancerous. We spoke to the Northern crooner, who is now 28, about positivity, pressure and the importance of being a weirdo."
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Fashion
British GQ
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​​"Having played James Bond for close to a decade, Pierce Brosnan knows a thing or two about looking suave. Especially at airports. This is a lesson in how to master the art of dressing for travel Best known for playing the world’s most famous spy, Pierce Brosnan has gained just as many style points (and air miles) as James Bond while traversing the globe as our island’s unofficial style ambassador. Since 1993, he’s donned everything from dad jeans to desert boots, and brought glamour back to international air travel. So fasten your seat belts as we go on a cross-continental journey through all of the actor’s 007-inspired airport looks."
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Lifestyle
British GQ
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"Finding the right housemate in a flat-share is rare – front-seat-at-the-top-of-the-bus, posting-on-Facebook rare. Nothing cements this more than moving to London, where you’re forced to live with strangers and form new relationships. It’s like Love Island, with a deposit thrown in for good measure."
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Mental health
British GQ
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​​"Eight years ago Thom Evans lay in a hospital bed unable to walk. The career-ending neck injury he sustained while playing rugby for Scotland in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium in 2010, was a close call. One millimetre’s difference would have left him paralysed, or dead. The actor and model talks to us about recovery, life after rugby and his relationship with Sean Connery."
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Mental health
British GQ
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​​​"Since he began channeling the grief of losing his mother into verse, Hussain Manawer has headlined the likes of Scala London and is currently touring Pakistan, something which his mum encouraged him to do before her passing. Last month he performed “Save Myself”, an original piece about suicide, reflection and recovery at the Music 4 Mental Health charity concert at which Ed Sheeran was headlining and received the only standing ovation of the night. Here, the poet tells us about his lowest moment."
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Mental health
British GQ
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"Shane Ortega was the first person in the United States military to transition on active duty. As a committed member of the indigenous community, he also undertakes responsibilities and ceremonial duties as a two-spirit person, a sacred role bestowed by Native American elders. He campaigns for trans, female and indigenous rights and is currently the public face of resistance against President Trump's proposed trans military ban. He spoke to us about his lowest moment."
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Mental health
British GQ
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"When Liam Malone's mother died of cancer, it started a series of events culminating in a drink-driving road traffic accident that changed his life. Three years later, the double-amputee, who was born with fibular hemimelia, won double gold at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Having achieved sport's highest accolade, the New Zealander is now turning his hand to training for the Iron Man and performing standup at the Edinburgh Fringe next year – all while continuing his day job in AI."​​
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Profile
Square Mile
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​"Rupert Evans is as British as they come. He may be best known for playing an American living in the Japanese Pacific States, but when we meet on a Monday afternoon at BAFTA’s HQ on Piccadilly, we find ourselves discussing Nectar points and his pasty white English legs. If you’re still not convinced the star of The Man in the High Castle is a Brit, he uses the word ‘blimey.’ Case closed."
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Lifestyle
Square Mile
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​​"Shooting to the top of the charts in 2012 with dance-pop anthem “Love Me Again”, John Newman became known the world over as the man with the blond-streaked hair, white socks and soulful voice. However, recently he’s had to balance making music with looking after his physical and mental health. He was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour in 2012, which returned in 2016 and was found to be cancerous. We spoke to the Northern crooner, who is now 28, about positivity, pressure and the importance of being a weirdo."
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First person
The Telegraph
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​"I can’t wait for to be back in a beer garden. The thought of drinking a pint of ale from a barrel, rather than a lukewarm cooler, almost makes my brain short-circuit. Sitting on wonky wooden benches, donning sunglasses and SPF when it hits eight degrees and scoffing on the bar’s offering of deep fried anything come 10pm – I want it all..."
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Health
The Telegraph
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​​"Being a first-time mum can be challenging at the best of times; during a global pandemic, expectedly more so, with new mothers across the UK feeling forgotten and neglected. They’ve had scans cancelled, missed out on antenatal classes and midwife appointments, and some have had to give birth alone."
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First person
Metro.co.uk
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​"My mother picked ‘Jess’ thinking it was different. It turned out to be the most popular baby name of 1994.
At school in Carmarthenshire, West Wales, I got used to my surname being surgically attached to my forename. Jess Roberts was the sporty one, Jess Williams was the gothic one, Jess Morris the adventurous one, and there was me. I was the awkward one with thick-rimmed glasses, back-combed hair and a disastrous sweep fringe."
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Travel
Metro.co.uk
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​​"Most of us have dreamt of spending a night with Chris Hemsworth or Tessa Thompson.
Unfortunately, Thor’s, err, hammer is for model Elsa Pataky’s eyes only.
But fear not, there is a way to get close to the action without Hemsworth’s lawyers getting involved."
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