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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
    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

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts

    Mel Robbins’s bestseller is the worst kind of advice for young women

    Fri, 24 Oct 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Welcome to dumb Britain

    From performative males to Taylor Swift analysis, pretentious intelligence is increasingly a turn-off

    Sat, 11 Oct 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Team McCarthy or team Keane? I still won’t say

    The 2002 clash between the captain of Ireland’s national football team and its manager has been turned into a film. But for some, it’s still too soon

    Fri, 3 Oct 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Harry Potter and the deathly rehash culture

    It’s been 30 years and the Potterverse is still expanding. I’m ready to leave it behind

    Fri, 26 Sept 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Trying to look young is even scarier than ageing

    An extreme facelift in Guadalajara is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the quest for eternal youth

    Fri, 12 Sept 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Taylor Swift: is she really all that?

    I get that Taylor Swift’s fame is stratospheric but isn’t the reaction to her engagement a bit much?

    Thu, 4 Sept 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Watch out, England – you’re being Ulsterised

    Flag-waving, patriotic spray-painting and men shimmying up lamp-posts. Why do I feel like I’ve been here before?

    Fri, 29 Aug 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    My social circle is now you, me and ChatGPT

    My friends are using AI to plan their barbecues, holidays and more – and ‘robophobes’ like me could be left behind

    Fri, 22 Aug 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    It’s our fault that Oasis are now the status quo

    Liam Gallagher took a pop at the establishment in Edinburgh – but isn’t his band part of it?

    Fri, 15 Aug 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop think

    Amy Odell’s book about Paltrow’s life, movie stardom and wellness empire is hard to put down – unlike its subject

    Fri, 15 Aug 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    More ‘adultescents’ at the polls gets my vote

    There’s no reason to be scared of letting 16 and 17-year-olds participate in elections. They already choose my socks

    Fri, 1 Aug 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    ‘Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy…’

    Out on the wily, windy Kent seafront, a red sea of Kate Bushes gather to celebrate the annual Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever

    Thu, 24 Jul 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    ‘Cool Eire’ puts the sham in shamrock

    All of a sudden, it’s cool to be Irish – but only if you talk about Ireland in a certain way

    Fri, 18 Jul 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    From blue-veined boobs to post-Ozempic pilates

    One thing we’ve learned from centuries of impossibly high beauty standards is that there’s always another expectation around the corner

    Fri, 11 Jul 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    The hot commies are coming to save summer

    Swap your bikini for a budenovka – collectivism is sexy again. And it’s all thanks to Zohran Mamdani

    Thu, 3 Jul 2025

  • Róisín Lanigan
    Why everyone is hot and no one is horny

    We are all ‘body positive’, but somehow our focus on looking and feeling good has coincided with a new war on shagging

    Fri, 20 Jun 2025

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