Sophie Butcher

I'm 25 - if we raise the state pension age I worry I'll never retire My generation is at a disadvantage again

An often overlooked argument in debates about the state pension is what will happen to younger generations after spending our working lives contributing to the retirements of others

My perspective for @theipaper.com ⤵️ inews.co.uk/opinion/25-r...

London felt safe – until two men with knives showed up on my doorstep Despite the claims that London is ‘lawless’, I’ll be honest: I broadly feel safe in the city I’m lucky enough to call home. As a born and raised Londoner, it has changed beyond recognition in just the...

I’m always grateful to have a creative outlet through writing, especially when difficult things happen!

Pleasure to go back and write this piece for @thelondonstandard.bsky.social

www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

"A world in which vanity can compel someone to inject themselves with a drug with proven short-term side effects – and unknown long-term ones – feels irresponsible," writes @sophiegracebutcher.bsky.social

Read more: https://trib.al/cIA545l

A future free of fat people isn't some sort of utopia Weight-loss jabs are going to fuel eating disorders

Knowing first hand how common it is to have experienced a negative relationship with food and your own body, I had a bad feeling in my gut when I first found out about weight-loss drugs three years ago.

For @theipaper.com, I sat with that feeling inews.co.uk/opinion/a-fu...

I'm an older Gen Z - please don't lump me in with the boring younger ones Here's the real reason younger Gen Z are so uptight compared with us

I didn’t understand why I couldn’t relate to most of the stereotypes about my generation as sober, prudish - and well, just a bit boring. Until I read some new polling research last week… inews.co.uk/opinion/olde...

I finally joined the exclusive dating app Raya - and learned its real purpose I soon learned that people join Raya to prove they can join Raya - myself included

I joined Raya to collect fun stories for my friends - and I didn’t succeed so I wrote this. A lesson in exclusivity, celebrity and the true meaning of dating apps inews.co.uk/opinion/i-fi...

I finally joined the exclusive dating app Raya - and learned its real purpose I soon learned that people join Raya to prove they can join Raya - myself included

I soon learned that people join Raya to prove they can join Raya - myself included, writes @sophiegracebutcher.bsky.social

Not even the Meghan haters could begrudge her this The Duchess of Sussex finds her secret weapon to winning over our nation’s hearts and minds

Meghan Markle, UK hun? I wrote about the Duchess’s love of a bev and a good time in my @theipaper.com writing debut inews.co.uk/opinion/not-...

top of the morning to you all, @rachaelkrishna.bsky.social has just described Dancing On My Own as "Mr Brightside for bisexual women" in the group chat, maybe one of the most powerful reads I've ever come across