Rosamund Urwin
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Equal Pay Day: Why the gender pay gap is widening
If you want a pay rise you need to be bold, know your worth, make demands and never look grateful. Now show me the money, say Rosamund Urwin and Katie Strick → Read More
Not Zero: Inside the Tory Party Split on Decarbonisation
Boris Johnson’s enthusiasm for attaining net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 is not shared by all in his party. So can this relatively recent convert to... → Read More
The war on fake news: can it be stopped?
The earth will be plunged into a 15-day blackout, warns Nasa! Morgue employee cremated while taking a nap! Denzel Washington says Donald Trump’s election saved us from an ‘Orwellian police state’! You can stop fretting about the darkocalypse, slapdash crematoriums and Denzel’s sanity. These headlines are, of course, ‘fake news’ — fabrications from the warped world of hoaxes-for-hits and viral… → Read More
Dylan Jones on sex pests, politics and the art of power dressing ahead of London Fashion Week Men's 2018
Dylan Jones confesses that he often feels like a sartorial let down. “When menswear week comes around, we get a lot of press and buyers from Asia and they ask about my wardrobe,” he says. “They’re incredibly disappointed when I tell them I put on a blue suit pretty much every day.” → Read More
Who is Kate Maltby? Writer at centre of Damian Green storm who has been hailed a role model
Kate Maltby found herself at the centre of a sexual harassment storm sweeping Westminster when she spoke out in October about how Damian Green had left her feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed. For many women, some of whom have contacted her for advice, she was a beacon and role model, ready to brave a backlash to stand up to unwanted sexual advances from men in powerful positions. But she has… → Read More
Tories gun for Met police after Damian Green quits
Downing Street piled pressure on Scotland Yard today to take action against the former police officer who revealed damning details about porn on Damian Green’s computer. The morning after the deputy prime minister’s resignation, the role of the police was put under the spotlight by No 10, ministers and Conservative MPs. → Read More
Rosamund Urwin: If Matt Damon really cares about women he’ll listen to us
Men often say they don’t understand women. But here’s a group I don’t understand: men who scour the post-Weinstein landscape and think, “I know what the world needs right now — my ill-informed opinions on sexual assault”. And yet the idiots keep coming — armchair experts; sex-pest apologists; even some of the sex pests themselves. No wonder so many women pray that God grant them the… → Read More
I hope the Ratcliffes buy a tree together this Christmas
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spent yesterday making a birthday card with her three-year-old daughter Gabriella. There was glitter and lots of hearts. It was for Nazanin’s mother, whose birthday is today, and Gabriella said she would hide it so it would be a surprise. There was just one problem with that: it was made in front of Granny. → Read More
The AllBright: a female-only members' club is opening in London with Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson on board
There's a new no man’s land on Rathbone Place in Fitzrovia. The AllBright is a female-only members’ club that will open next year — the first in the UK aimed at working women — and today its list of famous founding members can be revealed. Fancy rubbing shoulders with the actress Ruth Wilson, founder of the Mobo Awards Kanya King or London Fashion Week favourite Mary Katrantzou? They’ll be… → Read More
Rosamund Urwin: The dream of social mobility is out of reach for many
When I was a child someone gave my family The Game of Life as a Christmas present. We had the board, the car playing pieces, the blue and pink pegs to represent progeny — but the instructions were missing. We played anyway — there wasn’t much to do in 1993 — but we never really knew the rules on how to progress. → Read More
The curious rise of the City boy Corbynista
‘We’re like black swans,’ the banker says, as he sips an overpriced espresso in a Square Mile coffee shop. ‘No one thinks we should exist but we do.’ He looks like your typical mid-40s financier — Savile Row suit, Church’s brogues — but not only did he vote Labour in 2017, he hardly objects when I call him a ‘City Corbynista’. → Read More
Rosamund Urwin: My part in the ‘Maltby messages’ — and why I am revealing them now
At the heart of the sexual harassment allegations against Damian Green is writer Kate Maltby. With an inquiry underway, we expose how she believed the Conservative MP was offering to help get her a job → Read More
How Kate Maltby revealed ‘corset’ text from Damian Green 17 months ago
The writer who says Cabinet minister Damian Green touched her knee wrote down over a year ago claims that he “offered” her a job at the same time as making sexual advances towards her. The Evening Standard can reveal a series of messages sent by Kate Maltby, long before the scandal blew up, which set down her feelings of discomfort about the politician. These messages, which have been passed to… → Read More
Take time off tech — constant clicking rewires the brain
I got distracted 29 times while writing this column about distraction. Since I jotted down every hiatus, next to me now is a nerd’s version of the Bridget Jones’s Diary daily tally. Phone checks: 11. Twitter checks: 4. Email replies sent: 3. Text messages read: 9. Wet noses on the thigh followed by whimpering demands for affection: 2. → Read More
The new rules of the office Christmas party
Tis almost the season of the office Christmas do. A time when bosses loosen their purse strings and tongues and maybe, just maybe, your eyes will meet those of your office crush over the canapés. A flirt on a sticky dance floor; a snog in the stairwell; an awkward, bottom-on-the-stapler romp on your boss’s desk — seeds sometimes sprout in the most inauspicious circumstances. → Read More
Rosamund Urwin: Be bold, Philip Hammond, and borrow to build
There's a conversation I keep having with friends. Each time it follows the same path. They begin by talking about their housing struggles: the lucky, plusher-of-pocket and coupled-up ones about how terrifyingly large their mortgage on a two-bedder in zone three is; the unlucky ones about how much of their income goes on rent. Then comes the anagnorisis: “We’ll never have what our parents have.” → Read More
Playwright Sabrina Mahfouz: 'Men haven’t understood the micro-aggressions women face'
Sabrina Mahfouz — poet, playwright and activist — is part of an all-women team currently developing a new opera for the Royal Opera House, due to open in 2019. Adapted from an Egyptian novel, Woman at Point Zero is about a prostitute who has fled abuse and ends up killing a man. → Read More
Playwright Sabrina Mahfouz: 'Men haven’t understood the micro-aggressions women face'
Sabrina Mahfouz — poet, playwright and activist — is part of an all-women team currently developing a new opera for the Royal Opera House, due to open in 2019. Adapted from an Egyptian novel, Woman at Point Zero is about a prostitute who has fled abuse and ends up killing a man. → Read More
Monica Lewinsky: Public shaming is now a blood sport — and I was patient zero
At the end of our interview, Monica Lewinsky hugs me and thanks me for acting “like a human being” towards her. Talking to the media, she confesses, is still “hard” — a scar from being treated like a carcass that the piranhas all fed on when her affair with Bill Clinton was exposed two decades ago. → Read More
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's three-year-old daughter pleads: 'Free my mummy'
“Mummy, remember when I used to visit you in that other place?” Gabriella Ratcliffe asked her mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe last week as they were sitting in Tehran’s Evin prison. “Should we go there again?” Nazanin was aghast. Gabriella, who is three, meant the wing of the jail where Nazanin was once held in solitary confinement. → Read More