In the hours before the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved in the US for emergency use, I was on the phone with epidemiologists and medical experts who were detailing the expected advantages to widespread vaccination: There’d be fewer deaths, and fewer severe cases of COVID-19, so hospitals wouldn’t be so […]
Today Sadiq Khan, who is currently running to be re-elected as mayor of London on 6th May, visited a pharmacy in east London’s Newham. That pharmacy was more than it seemed: staff inside are trained to provide a safe space for people experiencing or at risk of domestic violence. If […]
A new HIV vaccine, based on the Moderna COVID-19 inoculation, has shown a 97% antibody response rate in Phase I clinical trials. Currently, HIV affects more than 38 million people globally. If approved, this vaccine could become the first stage of a multi-step strategy to combat HIV and other viral […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by D Ô E N (@shopdoen) While it’s still too early to determine which dress will go viral and acquire a precursory ‘the’ this season – becoming The Dress of summer 2021, if you will – in a corner of the internet […]
Defining life moments can be the best times to change your look. Wendy Van, the star of Hair Me Out’s latest episode, just became a new mum and needed a fresh style to match. “My newborn’s been pulling on my hair a lot, and I know I’m going to have some postpartum […]
Who would have guessed that 2021 would be the year that the influencer mirror selfie would be revealed to be a lie? Maybe it was inevitable that we’d learn that many mirror selfies don’t involve a mirror at all, and that the revelation would shake the world for approximately 10 […]
“My wedding dress is in the garage,” she said. “He is going to ask you to marry him, you know.” This was the first time I had met my boyfriend’s mum and little did she know we hadn’t even said “I love you”. Last summer we visited his mum in […]
Netflix UK and Ireland has added what can only be described as a God-tier category. Acknowledging the fact that sometimes we’re in the mood for a film, but don’t have the mental energy for three-and-a-half hours of The Irishman, it has introduced “Movies Under 90 Minutes”. The category, which can […]
Red carpet fashion continued at the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the top names in TV and film came together, albeit digitally, to celebrate this year’s on-screen wins, from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Judas and the Black Messiahto Schitt’s Creek and The Crown. The virtual format of the […]
PARIS, FRANCE – MARCH 05: Thandie Newton attends the Louis Vuitton show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2019/2020 on March 05, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Jacopo Raule/Getty Images) At 48 years old, Thandiwe Newton would like to reintroduce herself to the world, choosing to […]
