Maybe our fears about the ill effects of social media, screen time and doomscrolling are wasted on the young
Not even botulism can stop the growing appeal of cosmetic injectables
A study of Botox patients reveals worrying lapses in safety – and how risking our health in the name of beauty is normalised
Meeting my sister’s stem-cell donor felt a little like a first date
Lunch with a stranger would became the meeting of an extension of our family
The ugly truth behind beauty’s obsession with packaging
Beauty products now have their own covetable merch, but the packaging can’t conceal the perils of over-consumption
‘A photoshoot loomed, but I prefer to forget I have a face’
You might notice my column has a fresh new photo – less visible is my abject horror
Alarm bells ring when the fraud department calls
When Eva Wiseman fell for a phone scam, she wondered: were the fraudsters encouraged by her last column?
A shift in the abortion debate
The latest stats don't prove carelessness, they show that women take the prospect of motherhood seriously
My dysfunctional relationship with my financial advisor
Is it anxiety about the state of your finances… Or is it ‘money dysmorphia’?
Summer is always a shock, and we never learn
Every July the heat arrives and every year we seem to have forgotten it was coming… maybe because it makes us all feel a little bit unhinged
‘Beauty pageants were always about exploiting women’
Miss World faces accusations of exploitation (again), but why do we pretend these competitions are for anything else?
What it means to be a wife today
Married women in 2025 can choose from being committed, surrendered, hot, trad… The only certainty is that contradiction is at the heart of a marriage
Eva Wiseman: ‘Can we be too aware of mental health?’
Are you aware of mental health? Yes? That’s good. We are all very aware of mental health. But now that we are, isn’t the bigger question: what are we doing about it?
Eva Wiseman: the new pronatalists want us all to get pregnant
There are political trolls on a mission to make us have endless babies. The reward? A medal. After that? You’re on your own
Eva Wiseman: Do we actually need to sell our old clothes?
Selling fashion on resale sites brings much circularity and a little profit, too. But it has a huge impact on charity shops. Maybe it’s time to just let your old clothes go…
Home is where the art is
Step into the couple’s artfully curious Bloomsbury townhouse, once the offices of The Spectator
Eva Wiseman yearns for Topshop
The megastore may be returning. Hallelujah, we’ve earned it
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