1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1078+ words) Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river 7Devotees in white clothing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (591+ words) I was told to keep my diagnosis private but I am determined to show the reality of breast cancer and reject the stigma that prevents women seeking treatment ‘Madam, this looks like breast cancer, and if it is, we will…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (730+ words) From Lily Collins at Wimbledon to cast of Love Island, heels-averse cohort is stepping it up a notch Gen Z, the flats-only generation, has finally succumbed to the heel – albeit a tiny one. Long vocally anti-heel, the cohort who were…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (200+ words) Once dismissed as frivolous, spots are having the last laugh – popping up on celebs, catwalks and all over the algorithm For years, stripes have been the thinking fashion person’s choice. The style equivalent of remembering to charge your phone overnight....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (397+ words) Well done to Roe McDermott for saying what is rarely said – that abortion doesn’t lead to inevitable regret (Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices, 26 May). My own experience of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1192+ words) We saw it when Russia jailed members of Pussy Riot, and again when the US overturned Roe v Wade: misogyny is a powerful political weapon. Let’s focus on fighting it, not ‘understanding’ itIn preparation for interviewing Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (334+ words) Read more in the kindness of strangers series It was my first pregnancy and I’d been sick for more than seven months with hyperemesis gravidarum. In those late stages, after the HG finally passed, I was exhausted and overwhelmed. It…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (578+ words) On a toilet roll | Women caught short | Sustainable jeans | Prom notes | Baking breadWiping your bum on Izal (Letters, 20 April)? I made a Radio 4 musical feature on Izal back in 2010 (Now Wash Your Hands) and included the fact that, during the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (521+ words) Baby boomer Caroline Stone is dismayed at the rise of tradwife influencers, whose advice was followed for a month by the Guardian’s Lucy KnightI very much enjoyed Lucy Knight’s article (My month in the tradwife world: ‘I can’t pretend I’m…...