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Flic Everett

Flic Everett is a freelance writer and broadcaster with over twenty years of experience contributing to newspapers and magazines. She is the author of the novel The Only Friends You Need and the founder of the travel website Road, Rail and Sea.

<p>Supplies of taramasalata have been hit by industrial action</p>
Voices

If you’re worried about the taramasalata shortage, it gets worse

<p>During the Budget debate, in a show of ‘poppyflation’, several MPs wore more than one poppy</p>
Voices

Is it now acceptable to accessorise with a Remembrance poppy?

<p>The weight loss drugs are being tested for their positive effects on a number of different conditions </p>
Health

Does Ozempic hold the secret to a cure for depression and dementia?

<p>‘Miranda has simply joined the growing trend for the quiet midlife wedding’ </p>
Voices

Miranda’s discovered our best-kept secret...

<p>One in 14 home viewings are made by timewasters who want to look around a place they have no intention of buying</p>
Voices

When a for-sale sign goes up, it’s time for Brits to start snooping

<p>Harry and Meghan at the National Centre for the Arts in Bogota</p>
Voices

¡Basta! It’s time Brits abroad gave up trying to speak the local lingo

<p>The magazine will relaunch in February </p>
Voices

Playboy magazine is coming back – sorry, is it 2024 or 1954?

<p>Lady Gaga will perform during the Paris 2024 opening ceremony – on a floating stage in the Seine </p>
Voices

Are the Paris Olympics even more cursed than usual?

<p>Members of Great Britain’s Rugby 7’s team have posed in their knickers in a lingerie ad </p>
Voices

Is this the most offensive lingerie ad ever?

<p>Rory McIlroy has called off his divorce to Erica Stoll, while Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are the classic example of divorce regret </p>
Lifestyle

Divorce regret is real – but can a second relationship really work?

<p>Rory McIlroy and his wife Erica Stoll</p>
Voices

Here’s why you should never say ‘I want a divorce’

<p>At an election rally, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni received wild applause when she introduced herself as ‘that bitch Meloni’</p>
Voices

What did you call me? Bitch, please...

<p>Postcards were once a signifier of status – as long as they came from abroad </p>
Voices

There’s a good reason no one sends postcards any more

Voices

There’s a good reason no one sends postcards any more

<p>Postcards were once a signifier of status – as long as they came from abroad </p>
<p>The unhappy couple: the now-former Mr and Mrs Jonas, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas</p>
Voices

I know why Sophie Turner didn’t want to be known as ‘Mrs Jonas’

<p>A St Albans’ pub sign, posted on social media, has sparked a debate about clientele </p>
Voices

No pub should be ‘child free’

<p>We didn’t have to consider were the various urgent needs of wailing babies, frustrated toddlers and bored teenagers </p>
Voices

Children ruin weddings – that’s why I banned them from mine

<p>Experts estimate that one in three people in the UK live with undiagnosed dementia </p>
Health and Wellbeing

There is a new test for stage one Alzheimer’s – so what are the signs?

<p>Experts estimate that one in three people in the UK live with undiagnosed dementia </p>
Health and Wellbeing

There is a new test for stage one Alzheimer’s – so what are the signs?

<p>Being a vegan doesn’t have to be a headache if you follow some simple rules </p>
Health and Wellbeing

10 things you only know if you’ve been a vegan as long as I have

<p>Being a purist is fine when the punters are clamouring for cauliflower steaks</p>
Food and Drink

Of course meat should be on the menu in vegan restaurants

Health and Wellbeing

Post-viral depression is real – and your gut health could be to blame

<p>The full cast before many of the strong women were picked off by the men</p>
Features

The Traitors have a woman problem and they are all the weaker for it

<p>If everything becomes a challenge, nothing is </p>
Voices

We don’t need book club challenges – what happened to reading for fun?

<p>If you are selling online the taxman could be coming for you</p>
Lifestyle

Is your side-hustle about to cost you dear?

<p>Who decided it’s just not Christmas until a Coca-Cola truck rolls into town? </p>
Voices

All I want for Christmas? The old-fashioned traditions!

<p>A right royal soap opera: Charles and his youngest son, Harry </p>
Voices

I’m sorry, you’re dad to me now: Prince Harry’s father trouble

<p>If you are selling online the taxman could be coming for you</p>
Lifestyle

Is your side-hustle about to cost you dear?

<p>Who decided it’s just not Christmas until a Coca-Cola truck rolls into town? </p>
Voices

All I want for Christmas? The old-fashioned traditions!

<p>A right royal soap opera: Charles and his youngest son, Harry </p>
Voices

I’m sorry, you’re dad to me now: Prince Harry’s father trouble

<p>Hannah Waddingham fronts the new Marks & Spencer Christmas ad – which some have suggested depicts the burning of a Palestinian flag </p>
Voices

Anti-Palestine or pro-gay? You choose… this is an M&S Christmas ad!

Voices

Anti-Palestine or pro-gay? You choose… this is an M&S Christmas ad!

<p>Hannah Waddingham fronts the new Marks & Spencer Christmas ad – which some have suggested depicts the burning of a Palestinian flag </p>
<p>Why weren’t you as bold and free as Samantha? Why wouldn’t you describe your sexual problems as openly and hilariously as Miranda?</p>
Voices

Does it matter how often you’re having sex? Not in the slightest

Voices

Corbyn will meet with Hamas and Sinn Fein, but Chuka? Forget it

Lifestyle

They go with the job

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