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The Big IssueThe Big Issue

Laura Tennant tackles life head-on in THE BIG ISSUE, the unique column featured in our She’s Gotta Have It page

Running? Cool. Other runners? Less so

Call me old-fashioned, but manners matter

I'm too busy to use the phone

Older, wiser and having more fun

No unisex please, we're British

Get used to luxuries and they become necessities

Join the Slow Shopping Movement

Binge drinking? Put it down to our awful weather

Our dysfunctional relationship with food

Growing old funkily

Football is like dating 11 bastards all at once

The hideous fate of early-onset maturity

When did offices become no-talk zones?

Looking for a career move? Try breast implants

The scars left by psychological abuse

It's time to face facts about abortion

Moderate drug use is no worse than booze

Suspicion has become our default setting

Baby-stealing bureaucrats

'Being' really is more important than 'having'

We have a right to pain-free birth

Why we now value experiences more than possessions

Why the bitch in the room will always get ahead

The perils of dressing for oneself

The fake boob in fashion

Bonkers beauty? Sign me up

 

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Fighting the urge to clean

Who wants to live with a clean freak

Nurturers v narcissists

Working mothers don't feel guilty, just fed up

Why you should ditch the dream house in Gloucestershire

Post-nuptial depression

The Mummy wars

Why I worship the gods of rugby

Men: all borderline Aspergers?

The brutal world of social psychology

Sex every day keeps the doctor away

Just what makes men propose?

First make your baby, then find your boyfriend

When it comes to sex, men have something to teach us

Here's to late motherhood

The aphrodisiac of the male gaze

The art of the pick-up

Why you should always be the pretty one in the relationship

Horsewhispering for husbands

Lust plus chastity equals wedding bells

In celebration of the masculine virtues

Ridiculing the male sex is counterproductive

Rich, beautiful and very messed up

Why only C-list celebs need to strip

Even famous beauties have flaws

From starry-eyed innocent to celebrity harlot

Kate Moss and the great British teenager

Cool is a heritable condition