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Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’
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Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used the photo-sharing app to follow fitness influencers, but what began as a constructive relationship with the platform ...
England pick apart North Macedonia to give Sarina Wiegman perfect start
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England’s World Cup 2023 qualifying campaign and the manager Sarina Wiegman’s tenure began ruthlessly as the Lionesses put eight past an exhausted North Macedonia at St Mary’s. Back in front of fans for the first time...
‘Fashion is great but it’s not very inclusive’: Jeanie Annan-Lewin on how Perfect magazine is creating change
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Jeanie Annan-Lewin has 20k Instagram followers and is creative director of Perfect magazine, a biannual magazine edited by Katie Grand and launched in a blaze of hype with its Issue Zero in March. As such, on paper at...
How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate chip cookies – recipe
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Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies. Sadly, however, if you can’t tolerate gluten, chocolate chip cookies do not usually love you back – while squidgy brownies and many other deliciously squidgy cakes don’t really s...
Romelu Lukaku gets champions Chelsea off to perfect start against Zenit
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Romelu Lukaku had been the subject of suffocating attention from a well-organised and robust Zenit St Petersburg central defensive three. Everywhere he turned, it felt as though a door was slammed in his face and, as ...
A perfect pairing: find the right pasta shape for your sauce
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“Life is a combination of magic – and pasta,” the Italian film director Federico Fellini once said. And if, like me, you’re a devoted pastaphile, you’ll almost certainly agree with Fellini’s worldview. For something s...
Tired of tea scum? How to banish it for ever – and make the perfect cuppa
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Name: Tea scum. Age: Literally ancient. Appearance: A grotty, cuppa-topping oil slick. Is this some sort of horrible slur? No, not at all. Although “tea scum” may sound like something that a violent coffee enthusiast...
How to make the perfect creamed corn – recipe
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Corn in this country has two distinct seasons: tuna-and-sweetcorn sandwich season, which runs from October to July, and the current barbecued corn on the cob season, in which we choose to floss our gums on something t...
Son Heung-min downs Watford and maintains Tottenham’s perfect start
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Nine points; three clean sheets; Harry Kane staying put; top of the table. Had you offered that a fortnight ago to the 60,000 supporters streaming through the turnstiles on Sunday, they would have snapped your hand of...
A perfect disaster: what went wrong with Nine Perfect Strangers?
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There are several reasons to commit hours of your life to a TV series: to be provoked, to laugh, to explore universal elements of the human condition, to become totally absorbed, to be turned on by voyeurism, fashion/...
How to make the perfect lamingtons – recipe
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Lamingtons are one of those things, like Tim Tams and toad racing, that are big in Australia but, despite the best efforts of the residents of Ramsay Street, almost unknown elsewhere. Antipodeans of my acquaintance, h...
Masks off: how US school boards became ‘perfect battlegrounds’ for vicious culture wars
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Rina Gallien doesn’t consider herself political, but when the 41-year-old mother of four heard that parents who oppose mask mandates in schools were organizing to attend the 12 August meeting of the St Tammany Parish ...
Nine Perfect Strangers review – forget Nicole Kidman … Melissa McCarthy steals this show
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Isn’t it just typical? You wait years for a miniseries about rich Americans pitching up at a luxury retreat to try to find bliss, then two turn up at once. The White Lotus put its assortment on Hawaii in a five-star h...
‘A perfect storm’: UK beet growers fear Brexit threatens their future
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In a field in Norfolk, the sight of lush green leaves sprouting from the soil are giving farmer Ed Lankfer cause for optimism. “I think this is one of the best crops we have ever grown,” he says, surveying one of his ...
Nine Perfect Strangers review – Nicole Kidman leads a tantalising trip into wellness
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Secluded location: check. Secondary road in and surrounding Sylvan woodland: check. Low-rise, vaguely bunker-like Architectural Digest accommodation: check. Expensive-looking curved cane outdoor furniture and vibrant ...
I’m Your Man review – Dan Stevens is the perfect date in android romance
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Directed by Maria Schrader, this was a crowd-pleasing favourite at the Berlin film festival earlier this year and its star, Maren Eggert, won the festival’s new gender-neutral best leading performance prize. But I was...