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Róisín Lanigan

Róisín Lanigan is an editor and writer based in London and Belfast.

Photo of Róisín Lanigan

Róisín Lanigan

Róisín Lanigan is an editor and writer based in London and Belfast.

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Queueing for trendy food? I’ve had my fill

    Whether it’s oysters or jacket potatoes, average food just isn’t worth waiting for

    Fri, 8 May 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    It’s civil war in the preggosphere

    Mumfluencers on one side, trad wives on the other – the internet is a baffling place for ‘pregnant people’

    Fri, 24 Apr 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The girlboss was a fallacy and so is the trad wife

    The aspirational millennial career woman is now outre. But its replacement is no better

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    London is on its way to becoming Little America

    With the capital awash with New York pizza, and nonsense-speak permeating the House of Commons, it’s time the ‘special relationship’ came to an end

    Sat, 11 Apr 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The manosphere fakes can’t bear much reality

    Louis Theroux’s documentary is proof that even the most infamous incels are hopelessly awkward when they’re offline

    Fri, 27 Mar 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Nothing’s more stressful than this cortisol craze

    The wellness industry’s latest fad preaches complete control over your stress hormone. I can’t keep calm about it

    Fri, 13 Mar 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The rise and fall of Twitter

    Two decades of the social network, from hashtags to Elon Musk’s disastrous takeover

    Sat, 7 Mar 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The problem with the Good Slut manifesto

    Zoe Strimpel believes that the patriarchy is in retreat and women have never had it so good

    Sat, 28 Feb 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Haven’t you heard? Living next to a pub is noisy

    One man’s campaign of complaints about a London watering reflects the selfishness of the capital’s property market

    Fri, 27 Feb 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Slackers are obsolete characters. Who can afford to be lazy any more?

    Millennials grew up with lovable layabouts on TV and in films – a utopian fantasy that we have been priced out of as adults

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Three hours? There’s no way I’m watching that movie

    Films are too long – I just can’t focus for more than 90 minutes

    Fri, 6 Feb 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    London isn’t a hellhole but its tourist sites are

    Visitors to the capital are not buying the line that the city is unsafe, but surely we can offer them more than ‘experiences’ aimed at Instagram

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    We’ve all gone nuts for pistachio – but I’ve had my fill

    From Dubai chocolate to flavoured croissants, Instagram-friendly green goop is everywhere

    Fri, 16 Jan 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    My New Year plea: let’s all start posting online again

    A third of adults on social media are posting less than they did a year ago, threatening to turn the internet into a wasteland of AI slop and sexbots. Please don’t abandon me…

    Thu, 1 Jan 2026

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Gen-Z forgot the spirit of Christmas: drink and be merry

    The Great Lock In heralds the end of hedonistic festivities

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Women beware the rise of racist romantasy

    There’s a twisted eroticism to fearmongering in the ‘Yookay’, which only serves to detract from the real threat

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    In defence of manic pixie dream girls

    The coquettish archetype of millennial movies might have been reductive but the e-girls and trad wives that followed are even more oppressed

    Fri, 28 Nov 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The next status symbol is an offline childhood

    From sensory play to forest schools, millennial parents are fostering a life for their children away from the internet

    Fri, 21 Nov 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Thanks to AI, nostalgia is not what it used to be

    It’s easy to be fooled into thinking that everything was better in the past. But if we’re not careful, it will make the future worse

    Fri, 14 Nov 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    We’re swearing off dating apps. But are $150k matchmakers really the answer?

    From Seeking.com to the real-world high-net-worth matching services of Materialists, today you really can put a price on love

    Fri, 31 Oct 2025

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