Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Emma Beddington

We’re in a relationship recession – and a lot of women are absolutely fine with that | Emma Beddington

Sorry, Valentine’s Day is cancelled: we’re in a relationship recession. Analysis of demographic data by the Financial Times shows a dramatic decline in married or cohabiting young adults, with tanking “relationship formation” rates in countries as diverse as Thailand,...

Looking for love in the summer of 1971

What remained of the Summer of Love in 1971? The Observer headed to San Francisco to investigate and found Love was still there. That’s Love, a Persian aristocrat in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt ‘with the wildest red hair’ who...

The birdman of Tooting Bec spreads his wings, in 1984

‘A tawny owl swoops round your head, there is a background scutter of twitchings and scratchings from the depths of cages, a crow called Brian screeches incessantly… the room is suffused with a limey smell.’ In 1984, the Observer’s...

What was it like to be a globetrotting executive in 1971?

‘He is on a diet, is a high insurance risk, fears a thrombosis, is resigned to his first ulcer. He has reached the point where he can’t tell one plastic meal from the next. When he sees his children...

What became of the broken-hearted? Meet the unlucky in love, 1969

Was society getting sadder? On 10 August 1969, the Observer kicked off an investigation into ‘new aspects of unhappiness’ by talking to people who were unlucky in love. Music manager Eve Taylor, 53, worked with Sandie Shaw and Val...

Dreaming of California: a tour of Venice, LA, 1983

On 6 February 1983, the Observer took a tour of Venice – the LA suburb, not the Serenissima. It’s a poetic paean to an outpost of defiant weirdness; a countercultural enclave in a sclerotically gentrified city.The half-mile of human-made...

The fashion craze for military uniforms, 1967

Less than three months before Sgt Pepper was released, on 12 March 1967, the Observer took a bemused look at the craze for military uniforms. ‘Pop patriotics? Dandyism? Consolation for having missed national service?’ There was plenty of brocade,...

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