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Flic Everett

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Flic Everett is a freelance writer and broadcaster. She has written for newspapers and magazines for twenty years, and is the author of the novel the Only Friends You Need, and founder of travel website Road, Rail and Sea. She lives in Manchester

July 2016

  • Naked Attraction<br>Naked Attraction - Channel 4 press image

    Grin and bare it – how naked dating shows could strip us of shame

    Flic Everett
  • Left to right - Robert, Andrew, Lloyd, Jasmine, Matt, Stephen, Tara, Caroline, Rachel, Josie, Robert P, Katie, Raphael, Jenna, Tom, Jane, Jack, Ali, Oli, Glenn, Sam, Ben and Anton

    Eden plays on our dreams of escaping to a simpler world

    Flic Everett

June 2016

  • British actor Tom Hiddleston

    Tom Hiddleston’s underwear shots expose our double standards

    Flic Everett
    When a famous man – such as the Night Manager actor – puts his trousers back on he’s still taken seriously. But women are treated with less respect
  • Grandmother and granddaughter looking at book

    How to ...
    10 ways to be a fabulous grandparent

    Don’t act jealous of the other grandparents – and stick to the parents’ rules when you’re looking after the children … mostly
  • Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones

    The panel
    Is our love of connectivity turning Britons off sex?

    Nell Frizzell, Daisy Buchanan, Rupert Myers and Flic Everett
    Are Britons really having less sex because they’re too busy streaming Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad? Our writers discuss screentime in the bedroom

May 2016

  • Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop website seems likely to inspire a rise in ‘conscious uncoupling’ with tis ‘sex issue’.

    The joylessness of Goop sex

    Flic Everett
    Gwyneth Paltrow has overseen her extraordinarily humourless website’s ‘sex issue’. Never has celibacy seemed so appealing …

April 2016

  • Couple in bed

    Hooray! Your husband has cheated on you! Now you’re a better person

    Flic Everett
  • Denise Robertson

    Zoella and Mumsnet can never replace agony aunts like Denise Robertson

    Flic Everett

March 2016

  • Paperback books published by Penguin Books - late 1940s to late 1960s<br>CTHAEF Paperback books published by Penguin Books - late 1940s to late 1960s

    Fifty shades of shame (or why you won’t find the books I read on my shelves)

    Flic Everett
  • Kitten in a doll's house

    Don’t be a wedding list tyrant. Let people buy you what they want (or can afford)

    Flic Everett

February 2016

  • ‘The Virgin and Child with an Angel’

    Facebook’s motherhood challenge makes me want to punch my computer screen

    Flic Everett
    Of course it’s meant to be a bit of fun, but this smug club fetishises motherhood, and creates a new way to measure women and find them wanting

January 2016

  • Friends Reunited website on a laptop computer

    Farewell Friends Reunited – the site that offered time travel and sexual infidelity

    Flic Everett
  • Couple playing on bed in hotel room

    The dirty weekend is the ultimate British sexual encounter

    Flic Everett

September 2015

  • Morrissey, author of a turkey.

    Forget Morrissey’s ‘bulbous salutation’, here are my good sex awards

    Flic Everett
  • Teenage boy (16-17) leaning against brick wall texting. Image shot 2014. Exact date unknown.<br>E4NTAF Teenage boy (16-17) leaning against brick wall texting. Image shot 2014. Exact date unknown.

    Don’t criminalise sexting teenagers – mistakes are part of growing up

    Flic Everett

June 2015

  • Broken love heart

    Calling women ‘love’ can be less endearment than insult

    Flic Everett
    When an aggressive stranger calls me ‘love’ I bristle. It’s too often used as a contemptuous way of putting women in their place

December 2014

  • Barack Obama, Malia Obama, Sasha Obama

    The panel
    Should you ever criticise teenagers for what they wear?

    Hugh Muir, Jinan Younis, Flic Everett, Anouchka Grose and Franklyn Addo

    Hugh Muir, Jinan Younis, Flic Everett, Anouchka Grose and Franklyn Addo: Were Elizabeth Lauten's comments about Sasha and Malia Obama just those of a foolish adult or a toxic revelation? Our panel considers the evidence

April 2013

  • More! magazine

    No More! The magazine became an embarrassing mum trying too hard

    Flic Everett

    Flic Everett: More!'s role as a fun, feisty big sister, with its illustrated position of the fortnight, was killed off by the internet

February 2013

  • Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy

    Shirley Hughes: 'My daughter is the first person who sees my work'

    Children's writers and illustrators Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy are mother and daughter, both highly successful. Flic Everett meets them

December 2012

  • Flic Everett stepdaughter Mimi

    I'm too young to be a gran!

    With her children out of the way, Flic Everett was looking forward to her empty nest at home. But then she found out that, at 42, she was going to be a grandmother
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