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Isobel Lewis

Culture Reporter@izlew

Isobel Lewis is a culture reporter for The Independent. She has a particular interest in stand-up comedy and theatre and was a judge for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Funny Women Award in 2022. Before joining The Independent in 2020, she worked as a freelance arts and entertainment journalist for Bustle and Metro.co.uk and has written features for publications including The Atlantic, The Guardian and Vice.

<p>The new generation of board games are aimed at ‘people who don’t like games’ </p>

‘They’re cool again’: The Traitors and our love of party games

The games scene has gone from naff or tedious options that only serve to cause tension at family gatherings, to a booming industry of challenges that require players to possess charm, cunning and skills of deduction. Isobel Lewis investigates our renewed love of a very traditional pasttime

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