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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
    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

  • 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

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