Opinion
Views and opinion on the biggest stories of the day from the Editors at Marie Claire
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I Hate Hosting Dinner Parties, but I Love Watching Fictional Parties Derail
Hating dinner parties as a child, Viola van de Sandt now finds joy in their chaos—at least on screen. From burned canapés to family confrontations, fictional parties reveal women’s transformation, independence, and self-discovery.
By Viola van de Sandt
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“I Miss My Family, but I’ll Never Speak to Them Again”: Six Women on Family Estrangement
What a ‘no-contact’ Christmas really feels like
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Rage Bait Isn’t the Word of the Year We Want, But It’s the One We Deserve
From the Kardashians to Sydney Sweeney, Oxford’s 2025 word of the year explains why the internet is driving us all mad
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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The Caroline Flack Documentary Lays Bare the Brutal Ways Women Are Torn Down
Five years on, are we any kinder to women in the spotlight?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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I’m Tired of Managing My Safety — Men Need to Manage Their Behaviour
Every night, I think about women’s safety after dark in the UK, here’s what needs to change
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Sarah Pochin’s Comments About ‘Adverts Full of Black and Asian People’ Reveal a Troubling Backlash Against Diversity
Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s remarks about diversity in advertising have sparked outrage—and raised questions about how rhetoric once confined to the political fringes is entering the mainstream.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Smearing Virginia Giuffre: What New Allegations Against Prince Andrew Reveal About Power and Silence
Why smear campaigns by powerful men still work so well
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Britain Has Its First Female Archbishop of Canterbury — So Why Did Some Headlines Name Her Husband Instead?
“We're still measuring women by who they're married to and whether they're mothers, not by what they've achieved.”
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Yes, Instagram Is Ruining Your Holiday
If you went on holiday and didn’t post it, did it even happen?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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I Thought the Fashion Industry Gave Me Body Issues—Turns Out It Was the 80s
Body positivity? Easier said than done when decades of diet culture still mess with your head.
By Ruth Crilly
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Inside Notting Hill Carnival: How It Connects Me to My Caribbean Heritage and Why It Must Survive
From child spectator to masquerader: Chanté Joseph shares her personal connection to Notting Hill Carnival
By Chanté Joseph
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I Grew Up Worshipping Carrie Bradshaw, But I'm Ready to Say Goodbye
I couldn’t help but wonder, what would we do without Carrie?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Kim Kardashian’s ‘Back to School’ Skims Drop Shows We’ve Still Got a Sexy Schoolgirl Problem
Can we stop dressing up girlhood for the male gaze already?
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Kim Kardashian’s Skims Face Shapewear and *that* Sydney Sweeney Ad Reveal a Dangerous Revival of Regressive Beauty and Politics
Inside the nostalgia for toxic beauty and politics
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Diane Abbott is Proof That as a Black Woman, You Are Held to Higher Standards and Criticised More Harshly
It's no surprise so many black women support Diane Abbott — they know how it feels to be vilified
By Sheilla Mamona
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Oracle Cards Are the New Self-Care—But Is Online Spirituality Helping Anyone?
Full moon mantras, astrology make-up, aura nails, and WitchTok: welcome to the era of algorithmic enlightenment
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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TikTok Banned SkinnyTok, ‘Skniytok’ Quickly Took Its Place
RIP #SkinnyTok. Enter: ‘#Skniytok’
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Donald Trump Is back in power—Why didn’t more people join the Women's March this year?
“I am feeling the fatigue and weight of the challenge ahead of us, when it feels like we have already been fighting for so long.”
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Lauren Sánchez’s Mega-Money Hen Do Sounded The Death Knell For Quiet Luxury
“Stealth Wealth”? Lauren Sánchez doesn’t know her.
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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How Do We Raise Our Kids in a Time of Misogyny and Intimate Image Abuse?
“We tend to ask more of schools when we perhaps need to ask more of ourselves”
By Amy Beashel
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Why is our generation obsessed with romanticising TV murderers?
By Jenny Proudfoot
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I was told I was too girly to be gay — When will society stop judging women on how we look?
Why femme invisibility is a feminist issue
By Roxy Bourdillon
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How much is too much to pay for a friend’s wedding?
It’s wedding season, but these anonymous bridesmaids have had enough of expensive hen parties
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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Bridal Store Secrets: 15 anonymous bridal shop assistants share their wedding dress horror stories
And the bride wore...
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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A harrowing new report reveals rape culture is poisoning British Primary Schools
Like Adolescence, a new report into primary school rape culture makes for painful viewing, but we can’t look away
By Mischa Anouk Smith
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I’m a ‘Queenager’ and proud of it
Why our fifties might just be our most powerful decade
By Annabelle Thorpe
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Topshop was a mecca for Millennials like me—it might be coming back, but I don’t think Gen Z will ever experience a shopping heyday like that again
It would take more than Kate Moss for Topshop to save the British High Street in 2025
By Mischa Anouk Smith


