Rachel Cunliffe
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United Kingdom
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“Our online lives can never truly be our own”: Marie Le Conte on the generation that broke the internet
What does it mean to have grown up alongside an adolescent internet? → Read More
The war on drugs has failed – when will the Tories and Labour accept this?
Britain’s backwards drug laws are causing avoidable deaths, and the public is demanding change. → Read More
“I often spend my time sounding like a Lib Dem”: Rory Stewart on the fractured Tory party
The former Conservative MP and one-time leadership candidate shares his thoughts on Boris Johnson and the race to become prime minister. → Read More
How Boris Johnson authored his own Greek tragedy
The flaws that bring down the ancient protagonists of Athenian drama feel eerily familiar today. → Read More
The Met’s treatment of women is an outrage – but who will act?
We must not let our lack of surprise at the police’s misogyny turn into apathy. → Read More
Tattoos have more meaning than their critics dare imagine
Knee-jerk repulsion tells us more about those who disapprove of body art than those who embrace it. → Read More
A new podcast claims to hold the mainstream media to account
Media Storm claims to provide the crucial balance the news lacks – yet it fails its own test. → Read More
BBC Radio 4’s God Squad has borrowed from Life of Brian – but left behind the laughs
This sitcom about a student University Christian Association is reminiscent, ironically, of a student sketch show. → Read More
You can’t classify cats and it’s weird that scientists tried
Secure? Ambivalent? Disorganised? Anyone who has ever met a cat will tell you they’re all of those at once. → Read More
Trust me, women don’t need to be reminded to think about having children
We are acutely aware of our own declining fertility. If only the rest of society cared. → Read More
Trust me, women don’t need to be reminded to think about having children
We are acutely aware of our own declining fertility. If only the rest of society cared. → Read More
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry is intellectual escapism
Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry investigate everyday scientific mysteries in expert yet accessible detail. → Read More
The Treasury is contemplating yet another way to screw young people over
Graduates already pay a higher tax rate than landlords thanks to the unfairness of the student loan system, but now the government wants even more. → Read More
Why New Age puritans are the enemies of progress
From sex to Covid to climate change, some people just really like telling others what to do. → Read More
Laughing at Nicki Minaj's Covid claim missed the point entirely
The rapper’s Twitter spat with Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty and Laura Kuenssberg may have been funny, but it was also a distraction. → Read More
The Texas abortion ban is a threat to women everywhere
Were I living in Texas, it would be completely illegal for me to ever have an abortion. The new law that came into force this week bans terminations after six weeks of pregnancy. The timer starts ticking not from sexual intercourse, as one might expect, but from the date of a woman’s last period. I have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition that affects between 6 and → Read More
BBC Radio 6 Music’s The Happiness Map is pure escapism disguised as a chat show
Travel and live music – two victims of the pandemic that has consumed the last year and a half. It therefore seems a bit on the nose for BBC Radio 6 Music to have envisioned a whole series in which musicians share their favourite travel destinations. Yet this is what The Happiness Map is all about, with the travel journalist Rob Crossan (one imagines his usual work has been in short supply for… → Read More
Lucy Kellaway’s Re-educated is a breezy memoir about changing her job, house and marriage
When life gets monotonous, some people quit their grey office jobs to teach yoga on tropical beaches. Some trade in their weary spouses for younger, more fashionable models. Some jump out of planes to get the adrenaline rush of letting go and hurtling towards an unknown future. Journalist Lucy Kellaway has done it her way, seeking adventure, youth and adrenaline in something → Read More
Alun Cochrane asks: since when was “centrist dad” an insult?
“I’m not a baddie, I’m a centrist dad – I’ve got a gluten-free dog!” comedian Alun Cochrane exclaims in mock-frustration. His new show (imaginatively titled Alun Cochrane: Centrist Dad? – the question mark is very important, we are told) is part foray into modern politics, part midlife identity crisis. It’s not the “dad” part that bothers him, uncool though that may be – it’s → Read More
Boris Johnson’s social care plan would leave the poorest subsidising the wealthiest
If you were asked to come up with the most unjust way to fund the gaping hole in adult social care, the government’s proposal to hike national insurance contributions by one per cent would be top of the list. Whenever I write about the issue of intergenerational inequality, I am inundated with furious comments by people who don’t seem to read the part of the article where I → Read More