i wrote about a temperamental split --Lickens versus Pigs -- that's coming to define the internet (and also how unusable this website has become)

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i wrote about how everyone on the internet claims to be working class now & Dan Evans's very good book 'A Nation of Shopkeepers' here: open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

One of the things that astonished me when I migrated to the UK was that everyone was working class: from a care worker on 8.75/ph to the local butcher who owned 2 more flats and to the manager on 70k. The article below explains why. Dan's book even more so.

i wrote about an experience that feels exactly like being slowly drained of all life by a cluster of parasites (seeing a portal notification) open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

i have taken a photo of my undie drawer to share with you all open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

Why I'm going hundies for Matariki this year open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

My brutal first year of motherhood, two years on: open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

I wrote about a really horrible boss and some very good TV open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

Quick one on meth open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

Is there a secular and wholly apolitical reason that body count matters? Is being ‘spiritually ran through’ a thing? I got to the bottom of things open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

Real crowdpleaser topic on my newsletter today: why child molesters are so hard to detect and some three-quarters baked thoughts on what to do about it open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

I wrote about invisible work, the low quality of “emotional labour” discourse, holding in your nags, murdering and not murdering your spouse, and more open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

A few more thoughts about the invisible work of restraint, efforts you should and shouldn’t raise with your partner, and the best advice I ever received for making these conversations go well open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…

I wrote about sexual re-enchantment, cultural death grip, the open secret that rape isn’t necessarily the worst thing that can happen to a woman, and of course, fucking chickens open.substack.com/pub/madeleineh…