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Elle Hunt

Elle Hunt is a freelance journalist

July 2024

  • illustration of person wearing blue top sits at green chair and looks to the left

    Why am I like this?
    Why do I feel like I’m stuck in a ‘waiting room’, hoping for my life to get started?

  • Adelie penguins in Antarctica.

    Scientists ignored ‘gay’ animals for years. When will we get over our human hang-ups about the natural world?

    Elle Hunt

30 June 2024

  • SZA performs during the Glastonbury Festival.

    Glastonbury live: Sunday with SZA, Shania Twain, Burna Boy and more – as it happened

    Pictures, reviews and more, after Glastonbury’s final day and sets by Avril Lavigne, Janelle Monáe, Steel Pulse, Kim Gordon, the National and others
  • Shania Twain performing on the Pyramid stage.

    Shania Twain at Glastonbury review – country-pop legend doesn’t hold her horses

    Her voice, affected by Lyme disease, isn’t what it once was – but her country glamour and crowdpleasing impulses make for a successful legends set
  • Coldplay at the Pyramid stage.

    Glastonbury live: Saturday with Coldplay, Little Simz, Orbital and more – as it happened

    Cyndi Lauper, Jessie Ware, the Breeders and more performed on the second day at Worthy Farm, along with a secret set from Kasabian

29 June 2024

  • Cyndi Lauper on stage at Glastonbury festival.

    Cyndi Lauper at Glastonbury review – nostalgic Pyramid stage crowd just wants to have fun

    The pop balladeer brings 1980s hits Time After Time and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun to a sweltering crowd
  • Landmark moment … Orbital (Phil, left, and Paul Hartnoll) play the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 1995.

    ‘We were the bridge between indie and dance’: Glastonbury icons Orbital on 30 years of breaking barriers

    In conversation with the Guardian at the festival, Paul and Phil Hartnoll recalled their culture-changing sets of the 90s – and whether they killed off Top of the Pops
  • Dua Lipa performing on the Pyramid stage.

    Glastonbury live: Friday with Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Idles and more – as it happened

    The first day saw performances from Heilung, Jamie xx, PJ Harvey and more – alongside Marina Abramović’s startling silent art piece

28 June 2024

  • Obsessive sperm donor Meijer, whose actions have now been uncovered.

    The Man with 1000 Kids: how a sperm donor deceived parents around the world

  • (From left) Lizzie Mayland, Aurora Nishevci, Emily Roberts, Abigail Morris and Georgia Davies, AKA the Last Dinner Party

    The Last Dinner Party on misogyny, maximalism and making it big: ‘Men think they’re the arbiters of rock’

6 June 2024

  • (Photo by John Shearer for TAS Rights Management )

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Taylor Swift: cultural icon or turbo-capitalist?

    As Swift’s economy-shifting Eras tour comes to the UK, Chanté speaks to journalist and fan (but not ‘Swiftie’) Elle Hunt about the singer’s journey from country star to billionaire and asks whether her world domination is good for the music industry

May 2024

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    Buying London is grotesque TV – but it shows the capital’s property market for what it is

    Elle Hunt
    Netflix’s distasteful ‘reality’ series holds up a gilded mirror to the people making the city harder for the rest of us to live in, says journalist Elle Hunt
  • illustration of a woman holding a tablet with posts in the air around her saying things like 'ur cancelled'

    Why am I like this?
    Everyone’s so intolerant online. Am I right to stay silent?

    Call-out culture has left many of us afraid of posting. Africa Brooke offers suggestions for navigating online hostility

    • Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

      Elle Hunt

    • Sabrina Carpenter: how the Espresso singer became a piping hot pop prospect

    • A New Zealand politician can’t name a homegrown novel but Kiwi artists have always conquered the world

      Elle Hunt

April 2024

  • Couple on a date<br>A young couple in a coffee shop on a date sitting near coffee shop window

    Outside London, the dating pool may be smaller – but there are fewer sharks

    Elle Hunt
    I thought moving out would be a dating disaster, but a new report finds my peers in the capital have it worse, says journalist Elle Hunt
  • ‘In late 2020 the cumulative toll hit and, after six months of working almost around the clock, I broke down at my computer mid-sentence.’

    Why am I like this?
    Is it possible to break the cycle of burnout for good?

    The cycle of busy periods, burnout and recovery has started to feel grimly predictable. Are we doomed to repeat it forever – or can we develop immunity?
  • Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell in Scoop.

    Prince Andrew squirms again on Netflix’s Scoop. But who benefits from these ‘real-life’ dramas?

    Elle Hunt
    The viewer never quite knows if it’s just entertainment or a way to process recent, seismic events, says writer Elle Hunt

March 2024

  • If you spend most of your time by yourself, and not by choice, alone time may feel like a burden.

    Why am I like this?
    I like my own company. But do I spend too much time alone?

    With growing numbers of people living without partners and children, and working from home, more of us are spending time alone. But is this actually a problem?
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