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Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend
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Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend

What's got my attention this week #107

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Jul 18, 2025
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Stylist’s new ageing issue features a long read on the women rewriting the rules on ageing,(£) including yours truly.

Below the paywall today: the most eclectic reading guide you’ll find this summer; how to ask for what you want; the rise of the big birthday (road) trip; how to relax when you can’t relax; glimmers; the sciencey reason we hate the word moist; a brand new Bechdel test for women over 40; the joy of other countries’ supermarkets, the books that made me and more.

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• Kathy Bates becomes the oldest ever Emmy nominee for lead drama actress… (for, um, Matlock)
• Love this ode to Pamela Anderson. (Gift link)
• Anybody who watched the women’s singles final at Wimbledon last weekend is probably still wincing, but

Claire Cohen
reckons it was the 57 minute lesson on failure we all needed.
• What I learnt from taking 58 walks in my 58th year. (Gift link)
•
Clover Stroud
on age and her changing relationship with her body.
• Unpicking information avoidance.

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