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Marina Diamandis reveals she struggled with bulimia at the height of her pop career

Marina Diamandis reveals she struggled with bulimia at the height of her pop career

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Marina Diamandis, known under her stage name Marina and the Diamonds, has opened up about her struggles with bulimia. Bulimia is a serious mental illness that affects around 230,000 people in the UK. Those who suffer with the condition are caught in a cycle or eating large amounts of food (called a binge) and may later try to compensate by vomiting, excessively exercising or taking laxatives (called a purge). Diamandis, 39, experienced disordered eating issues until 2012 – the year her second album Electra Heart reached No 1 in the UK charts, following her hit debut record The Family Jewels in 2010. Speaking to The Times, Diamandis said she no longer struggles to speak about bulimia openly thanks to her 12 years of recovery. …

Torrents of Magpies, Spheres of Hope | Marina Warner

Torrents of Magpies, Spheres of Hope | Marina Warner

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Shut in a closet lit only by a high air vent through which a sunbeam enters at a certain hour, the narrator of The Plotinus has no place to lie down. This nameless “incarcerate,” barely covered in a sack and provided with an occasional pair of socks, endures conditions of abjection and torment that recall those of the prisoners in Abu Ghraib. Hoping that someone out there might decipher his “desperate rappings,” he taps out his story in code on the air vent (he “knuckles” it). Flashes of stoical humor bring him close to the protagonist of Kafka’s “The Burrow,” or to Winnie in her pile of sand in Beckett’s Happy Days and Hamm and Clov in Endgame; his voice, formal and restrained, is a rueful witness to the inhumanity of the future that is upon us. The Plotinus is a novella, Rikki Ducornet’s fifteenth work of fiction, if collections of short stories are included. Published last year—the year she turned eighty—it is a succinct parable of lockdown and turns that recent worldwide experience into …

Growing up in a utopian commune – and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness – podcast | Life and style

Growing up in a utopian commune – and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness – podcast | Life and style

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Susanna Crossman describes her childhood in a utopian commune where children ran wild – and the trouble that came with that freedom; Marina Hyde assesses Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s glitch-ridden chat; and Moya Sarner reveals the life-changing power of selfishness, with the help of a simple phrase. How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang – podcast | Life and style

Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang – podcast | Life and style

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Where are you Tommy and Elon? Marina Hyde finds that those provoking the race riots are far, far away; the dead hang delight – how this quick, surprisingly simple exercise can change your life; and ‘A bolt of lightning struck my plane’ – one woman’s incredible story of survival How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry – podcast | Life and style

Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry – podcast | Life and style

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Never doubt the instincts of Donald Trump, warns Marina Hyde, who just appointed a ‘never Trump guy’ as his running mate. Let your kids roam free, stay home alone, have fun – and fail – Norwegian style. Charli xcx’s new album, Brat, highlights how many young women now aspire to live – dirty, hedonistic, happy and bra-less. And ‘My brother’s mental illness hovers over my family life’ – Philippa Perry answers a reader. How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast | Life and style

Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking – podcast | Life and style

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Marina Hyde on poor Rishi, who had to go without a Sky subscription as a teenager; Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking, then he tried hypnotherapy and it changed his life; when Jordan Hatmaker pulled the string of her parachute, she realised something was very wrong; and ‘My grownup son is gaming all day and lives on takeaways’ – Philippa Perry offers advice to a mother How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you | Marina Hyde

It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you | Marina Hyde

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Psychologically speaking, I feel I understood the last two prime ministers only as they were leaving us. With Liz Truss this might seem understandable, given she was in office for 10 minutes. Then again she had been around for years – yet it was only watching her final days, and then reading one illuminating political obituary, that I felt I got it. “I met Truss at university,” wrote Tanya Gold in Politico, “long before she entered real politics, and she mirrors and watches, as if trying to learn a new language. That is why she is stilted and ethereal: that is why she cannot speak easily or from the heart.” Ah, I see, I suddenly thought. Why had I not got it before? My surmises felt further confirmed reading Rory Stewart’s political memoir, when Truss asks how his weekend has been. “I explained that my father had died,” Stewart writes. “She paused for a moment, nodded, and asked when the 25-year environment plan would be ready.” Was Truss being deliberately heartless? Or did she, in …

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness? – podcast | Life and style

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness? – podcast | Life and style

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Rishi Sunak is so convinced he can’t win he’s promising any old mad thing, while the Lib Dems are deliberately falling off paddleboards – Marina Hyde on the election. The couple on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children – Elon Musk (father of 11) is a supporter. Few of us have the money to take a long pause from work – but, as Anita Chaudhuri discovers, even a day can make a difference How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala | Marina Hyde

Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala | Marina Hyde

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Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our phone screens and pass unsparing judgment on dresses whose trains alone cost more than HS2. If you haven’t sat in mismatched pyjamas huffing toast while remarking what an unacceptable misstep Lana Del Rey’s mosquito net was, and how Chanel seems to be going tits up, then you have simply failed to capitalise on the digital banquet spread out for you. These are dark times, and nothing but … gratitude, I think? … should be shown for film director Taika Waititi’s decision to come dressed as a brown pleather three-piece suite, while his wife, Rita Ora, presented as the ribbon curtain tacked over their back door to keep the flies off it. Despite – and indeed because of – its best efforts not to be, the Met Gala often feels like a spectacle staged for the tricoteuses camping out round the bottom of the guillotine. This is an event …

Did we really expect Tory MPs who fought for voter ID rules to follow them? Don’t be ridiculous | Marina Hyde

Did we really expect Tory MPs who fought for voter ID rules to follow them? Don’t be ridiculous | Marina Hyde

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Are you, like me, struggling to get a handle on the current government’s approach to empathy? It increasingly seems to be a commodity that many Conservative MPs believe should be available to Conservative MPs only. A few weeks ago the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, described William Wragg – fellow Tory MP and then-chair of the public administration and constitutional affairs committee – as “courageous”. By way of a reminder, “courageous” is the sort of word we would typically reserve for people who’ve singlehandedly held a bridge for the Allies against the Germans despite being wounded/posted a picture on social media of themselves without makeup; whereas Mr Wragg had simply shared MPs’ private phone numbers with a blackmailer in the current security environment. Is that brave? If it is, can the no-makeup girls please get a VC? Further bravery seems to have been on show during yesterday’s local elections, which took place under electoral law changed by the Tories in 2022. All voters are now required to present an approved form of photo ID, which even Jacob …