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"Recovery is confusing - it is not black and white and there is no one who can do it for you. This is where specialist eating disorder services can guide and support you. Recovery is abstract - it is not the same for anyone but that is the beauty of it. ‘Abstract’ is not synonymous with ‘bad’; ‘hope’ is abstract, ‘peace’ is abstract, so too is ‘contentment’."

"In the current climate, where discussions around women’s safety are finally getting the awareness they deserve, you would think the bouncers would have prioritised my wellbeing over their need for a power trip."

"Current female MPs are expected to act as female politicians, not just as politicians. This pressure is incredibly unfair."

"The desire to simply breathe, to spend a day without a to-do list etched into your brain, is a completely natural response to our unnatural environment."

"After months, years now of isolation, our pent-up anger has found a way to spill over."

"Our government may represent a morally bankrupt failure of leadership; but that means we must lead ourselves."

"Genuine political savviness should complicate our outlook on the inveterate clash between universalism and particularism that the Covid era has brought into fresh attention."

"It was the social interaction that we craved, the personal connections formed that couldn’t be fostered behind a screen."

"The strength and vulnerability of democracy, in short, is about trust."

"Yet this rhetoric is nothing new for childfree people – childfree women in particular."

It seems as if the doomsday clock is close to striking twelve for the Conservative Party.

"The insatiable Russian bear has always looked westwards for its next meal."

The United Kingdom is now giving its citizens their third dose of the vaccine despite almost 40% of the global population remaining unvaccinated

"Zemmour’s political ideologies is one of division, intolerance and discrimination, and his mere candidacy is a testimony of France’s fragile political landscape and its descent into populist demagogy."