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I’m 38 and ‘childless’ – asking ‘why have you never had children?’ is rude and insensitive

Claudia Tanner

What it’s like to be a narcissist: ‘No one’s needs or wants come before my own – sometimes not even my children’s’

Poorna Bell

Conservatives need to look to a new generation for leadership if they’re to survive after Brexit

Katy Balls

Asia Bibi: Sajid Javid is a coward if he does not offer aslyum to the persecuted Pakistani Christian

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Victorian doctors were not using vibrators on female patients – it was even stranger than that

Dr Kate Lister

Iceland knew its ‘banned’ Christmas advert might never make it to air – but that doesn’t mean it was a stunt

Ian Burrell

Armistice 100: Your stories show why the Great War generation shall never grow old

Andrew Johnson

I’m A Celebrity 2018: waterfall showers, testicles and tears…what you can expect from the jungle this series

Jessica Barrett

The gender pay gap will only close when we can all work flexibly

Susie Mesure

Theresa May’s Brexit deal would weaken the nation, and no deal would be a disaster. What’s next?

Ian Birrell

Let us take stock of how we remember the dead

Stefano Hatfield

Let’s face it, an alien invasion might not be the worst thing to happen on Earth right now

Eleanor Margolis

There is shared ground between the Guardian and the Mail, despite Paul Dacre and Alan Rusbridger’s feud

Ian Burrell

Cheryl’s face: whether she’s had surgery or not shouldn’t be up for debate

Jessica Barrett

Remembrance of Armistice: at this hour 100 years ago – rejoicing and grief

Jeremy Clifford

Why we need to remember the Black and Asian people who fought in WW1

Habiba Katsha

Only by securing a place at the decision-making table can women challenge the status quo and fight for change

Amelia Womack

I was the pensions minister, and these are 10 reasons why women lose out in pensions

Baroness Ros Altmann

Poor Auntie. The BBC has lost its connection to reality

Kathryn Flett

The politicians who campaigned for Brexit don’t actually know how to implement it

Chris Grey

1950s women are being deprived of our pensions, so we’re taking the Government to court

Dr Davina Lloyd