Arts Writer and Commentator. All views my own. Arts publicist. Words for: FT, Independent, GQ, Guardian, BBC Front Row. Freelance enq: esbell26@hotmail.co.uk
I imagine it must be exhausting for children to experience their childhood for a perceived audience, learning to perform domesticity to strangers, waiting for a parent to set up the tripod, move to a different location, stand still as they brush your hair for the camera
Ekin-Su and Davide are too high fashion for PLT or ASOS. I demand a series of Dolce & Gabbana ‘Summertime in Tuscany” styled billboard ads, Davide will be the next face of John Paul Gaultier cologne. Ekin-Su has the potential to be the UK’s own Julia Fox. #LoveIsland
Cannot stop thinking of this case. The horror of it has been rattling around my brain, not just what her husband did to her, but how so many men were complicit in the abuse. How are we not in the streets in uproar, why aren’t more men talking about this
I finished this book last night. I know it sounds like hyperbole but I think it’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever read. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to come across it. I want to throw it at everyone.
By quite disciplined I mean stuff like, try wake up at an appropriate time every weekday, move your body in the mornings or evening, feed yourself mindfully - I don’t mean, Wahlberg levels