‘i didn’t hear many stories like mine growing up’

Eleven years on from the ‘transgender tipping point’ — a term coined by Time magazine when it featured Laverne Cox on its cover, and a moment of self-visualisation and representation for many a trans

Lately, it feels as though we have reached a point in history where we are collectively overwhelmed by information, content and an incessant and rapidly changing news cycle. Whereas in the past someth

As she releases her new book Still Beautiful , Katie Piper opens up about ‘truly’ living, contemplating adoption and the hot topic she’ll never discuss on daytime TV

Bernadette Gledhill , from Huddersfield, has worked in the fashion industry for five decades, first as a model, then teaching others how it’s done and these days choreographing fashion shows. The 70-year-old’s career has come full circle, and she shares with us the joy of modelling, and why she’ll never let anyone perm her hair again!

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and

HE VOLUNTEERS IT within 10 minutes of meeting me. “People either love me or fucking hate me, put every ounce of belief into me or don’t believe [in] me whatsoever,” he says, sounding more bullish than