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Lucy Mangan

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Lucy Mangan

Why sisters are good for you

A study shows that show that having loving siblings of either gender, but especially girls, is the best prophylactic against adolescent unhappiness.

Mad about the hype

Mad about the hype

<em>Mad Men</em>, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways…

An entourage against introspection

The travelling celebrity entourage is a thing of wonder and the United Kingdom’s Heather Mills has raised the bar yet further.

Posh Spice’s latest blow for feminism

As if there weren’t enough nails in the rivet-studded coffin of feminism already, along comes a bestselling diet book with which we can hammer in another. This one, the…

Beware the career woman

The things I do for journalism. Do you realise that by being paid to write this I am jeopardising my boyfriend’s happiness, the health of our relationship and the future of…

Modern guide to sinning

It is a sin to cause misery to others, you would agree, yes? And yet I bet that at this very moment you are sitting in an office where people can clearly see your — jeez, I dread…

If the shoe fits …

Can it be true that what you wear on your feet can improve your health, weight, posture, muscle tone and circulation, as the various manufacturers assert? Perhaps the most famous…

Happily never after

It was the tale of Bluebeard that scared me to death. The tale of the wife unable to resist the temptation of opening the forbidden door at the end of the gallery and finding…

Nip and tuck at 80

As a child I developed the belief that old age would be a glorious estate, a time of enlightenment and peace, and everything before — childhood, adolescence, the subsequent…

The meaning of Ms

When I was 14 and still had the emotional capacity to become prostrate with rage at injustices, both real and imagined, I swore I would always be a Ms. I made my sister swear,…