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Sophie Wilkinson

Sophie Wilkinson is a freelance journalist who specialises in entertainment, celebrity, gender and sexuality

June 2024

  • Nine people sit at tables with toilets as chairs facing nine panelists seated at a table at a press conference by the German Toilet Organization

    Germany has come clean about the state of its public toilets. Why can’t Britain?

    Sophie Wilkinson
  • Conservative party logo

    ‘Crank’ Tory candidates accused of sharing online conspiracy theories

March 2024

  • Wayne Couzens's police mughot after his arrest for murder

    Home Office breaks pledge to fund sex-crime research after Everard murder

    Government was to look at whether offenders tend to commit increasingly serious crimes after outcry over warning signs with police officer Wayne Couzens

December 2023

  • A zombie knife used in a fatal attack in London in 2016. In the year to March 2022 there were 282 murders with knives.

    Google profiting from sale of zombie knives in UK despite claims of ban

    Campaigners demand more government action after ads for the weapons are being promoted by tech giant

August 2023

  • Workers in central London drink water as the temperature approaches 40C in July 2022.

    The future of work
    Can’t stand the heat: how can UK workplaces adapt to the climate crisis?

    Hot weather can be dangerous for workers, as well as driving down productivity. And with UK buildings poorly prepared, solutions are needed quickly

June 2023

  • A woman in a pharmacy looking stressed and holding her hands to her head

    The future of work
    ‘Abuse is part of the job’: protect staff from public harassment, say unions

    Customers attacking workers is widespread and likely to get worse. But the government is stalling on a bill to tackle it

March 2021

  • The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland

    Google found to be hosting sickening antisemitic reviews of Auschwitz

    Company says it ‘must do better’ after Guardian discovers more than 150 offensive comments on Maps site

July 2019

  • Menstrual cup and tampons on table

    Pardon the rant, but here’s why I love my Mooncup so much

    Sophie Wilkinson
  • Ariel in the Little Mermaid

    As a ginger, I’m calling out the racist backlash against The Little Mermaid

    Sophie Wilkinson

August 2018

  • Lacock Abbey

    National Trust property criticised over event with Nazi uniforms

  • Sandi Toksvig

    Shortcuts
    Have you ever mistaken Sandi Toksvig for Tom Cruise? You’re not alone

July 2018

  • Gloria Gaynor, George Michael and Kim Petras.

    From YMCA to Bloom: charting the evolution of the gay anthem

    As Pride celebrations kick off around the UK, we track how pop has reflected four decades of social change

November 2017

  • The brightly lit inside of the first ever Wagamama in London’s Bloomsbury, the kitchen with chefs busy to the left and customers seated on benches and stools at tables in the background, a waitress carrying two dishes and smiling broadly in the foreground

    How Wagamama changed the way we eat

    It’s 25 years since Wagamama opened its first branch. Sophie Wilkinson reveals how the chain stays fresh

July 2017

  • Woman on a sofa using a laptop

    I understand Gayle Newland’s impulse to catfish – I posed as a man online for sex

    Sophie Wilkinson
    You cannot stop people pretending not to be themselves, says freelance journalist Sophie Wilkinson

March 2017

  • Sophie Wilkinson pictured at school

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: my coming out letter to my mum

    Sophie Wilkinson
    After years of bickering between me and my mum, it was an argument about a school trip that broke us. That’s when I wrote her

December 2016

  • Gwyneth Wilkinson from Sophie Wilkinson

    People with dementia deserve a sense of peace – and that costs money

    Sophie Wilkinson
    As we let the social care bar drop ever lower – are our relatives being fed and wiped? – we lose sight of all requirements for a dignified end of life

March 2015

  • Ellen Page at last year's Vanity Fair party

    Butch chic: how the gender-neutral trend has ruined my wardrobe

    Sophie Wilkinson
    Arguably the biggest trend this season, unisex style is everywhere – from JW Anderson to Topshop and Cos. But what does it mean for women who have always dressed like this? Gay writer Sophie Wilkinson explains

March 2014

  • Leisha Hailey, Katherine Moennig in The L Word

    Your next box set
    The L Word – box set review

    Sophie Wilkinson: With its frank discussions and extensive sex scenes, this is where all your questions about lesbians are answered

August 2013

  • Crowd of clubbers dancing at a nightclub

    How do you listen to modern music?

    Whether it's vinyl for house music or club speakers for reggae, the choice of technology can enhance or spoil the experience of listening to different music genres, writes Sophie Wilkinson

June 2013

  • Katie Stelmanis

    Austra's Katie Stelmanis is happy to put feminism centre-stage

    The doom-disco star on Mardi Gras, Marshall Jefferson and trying to be more than Lana Del Rey

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