Mums Tips

The least sustainable world cup on record? More like the most ridiculous dad trip ever

So, the 2026 Fifa World Cup is coming. Cue the flags on cars, the sudden expert opinions from people who cannot find the recycling bin, and enough jet fuel to cook the planet twice over. A new report from digital marketing agency Brand Ambition has dropped a truth bomb that should make every climate conscious mum choke on her fairtrade tea. Brace yourselves: the 2026 tournament is shaping up to…
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Movies

The Devil Wears Prada 2: A sequel so bad it should be fired

I sat through The Devil Wears Prada 2 with a glass of something robust and a heart full of hope. Two hours later, the glass was empty and the hope was dead. This film is a disaster. A beautifully dressed, star-studded, expensive looking disaster. And nobody is saying it out loud. Because the first one was fine. It was original enough, fun enough, quotable enough. But this sequel? It has…
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What's On

Record Store Day survival guide (for mums who'd rather be in bed)

When your other half announced they’re getting up at 5am on a Saturday to queue outside a record shop, you had questions. Mainly: “Why?” and “Can you take the kids with you?” Well, Saturday 18 April isRecord Store Day 2026, and more than 300 independent record shops across the UK will be flinging open their doors from as early as 8am. Hundreds of exclusive…
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Parenting Skills

Sorry, Silicon Valley. Our teens are not your guinea pigs

Ladies, we’ve all felt it. The tug-of-war over the glowing rectangle. The vacant stare of a teenager who hasn’t blinked in 45 minutes. The eerie silence punctuated only by thetap-tap-tapof thumbs on glass. We’ve all been there. But it’s not your fault. And it’s not just “lazy parenting.” According to a landmark court rulingon 28 March…
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Lifestyle

The Sapiosexual question: Is intelligence really sexy anymore?

You know that feeling when a man starts talking – really talking – about something that matters? Philosophy, history, the kind of conversation that crackles with curiosity? For some of us, that is attraction. Not the chiselled jawline or the gym-toned physique, but the mind behind it. As our London Mums’ editor Monica Costa put it recently: “For me, a man is charming and sexy…
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Entertainment

What if Scottish Bagpipes were… Italian?

Every Christmas in Italy, a familiar figure appears in nativity scenes and town squares: the zampognaro (bagpipes musician). Wrapped in a heavy cloak, moving slowly, playing a sound that feels older than memory itself, he seems suspended in time. For Italians, that sound means Christmas – anticipation, devotion, winter, faith. Yet behind this apparently simple, folkloric image lies a far…
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Mums Tips

The gentle rebellion – Why polite compliance is the new tyranny

Ah, freedom. The word we print on tote bags, chant at rallies, sprinkle across Instagram like Parmigiano on pasta. We live in the age that claims to worship it more than any other… and yet, if you listen closely, something feels off. Like a slightly sour note in an otherwise well-rehearsed choir. No, we’re not living under tyrants twirling moustaches and banning books at dawn. Our century…
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