Charlotte Lytton

I chose a caesarean. No woman should be judged for doing so C-sections now outstrip natural births, so isn’t it about time to get rid of the stigma about electing to have one?

The real reason so many women in the UK are having caesareans… in today’s @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/a683...

This parasocial illusion blights my generation The Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year shows how far we’ve fallen in our obsession with social media

And in @thetimes.com today, on how ‘parasocial’ being the word of the year is a sign of a generation in crisis
www.thetimes.com/article/95f8...

The truth about life as the world’s youngest prime minister… my interview with Sanna Marin, in Grazia

What the Salt Path author told me about ‘honesty’… in @thetimes.com today

www.thetimes.com/article/6524...

My husband doesn’t know I’m on Mounjaro Why are some people keeping their weight-loss drugs secret, even from their partners?

Wrote about the people keeping their weight loss jab use secret from their spouses, in today’s @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/48c1...

What It’s Really Like to Date on Ozempic “Men have the misconception that I don’t eat a lot because I’m putting on a demure act.”

Major weight loss triggers a higher divorce rate among couples - but what’s life like for daters on Ozempic? My piece for @TheCut.com www.thecut.com/article/how-...

'Untold: The Liver King' Lets the Disgraced Health Influencer Off Easy A new documentary about the businessman and influencer who admitted to lying about steroid use dodges some big questions.

Animal testicles, a steroid scandal and a whole lot of bull: I wrote about the Liver King for TIME magazine time.com/7284988/unto...

No sex before marriage! The model and the trad wife glossy Brittany Hugoboom is the 33-year-old mother of two who founded Evie, a magazine dubbed the ‘conservative Cosmo’. Charlotte Lytton meets her

Milkmaid dresses, tradwives and sex tips for married women only - I met the founders of Evie, the ‘conservative Cosmo’. In today’s @thetimes.com Magazine
www.thetimes.com/article/869d...

The new third party in millennial relationships? Spreadsheets. My piece on how software is saving romance (maybe), in Grazia

The revival of Jordan's 1,600-year-old camino In Jordan, a 50km pilgrimage trail follows the path of a 4th-Century nun who journeyed through the Holy Land – centuries before Spain's famed Camino de Santiago.

Wrote about the revival of Jordan’s Camino de Egeria - inspired by a 4th century Spanish nun - for BBC Travel www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

‘I met my mum when I was 45. Then she swindled me out of £100k’ After losing his house and family, Graham Hornigold unpicks the intricate scam he fell victim to

And Graham Hornigold - who met his mum when he was 45. She then swindled him out of over £100k, taking his home, and young family. His story in Con Mum, now on Netflix www.telegraph.co.uk/money/met-mu...

The Indian chef who changed the way London did curry The capital’s foodies are now seeking out ever more regional food from the subcontinent — and Rohit Ghai has been in the kitchen to see London’s Indian food evolve

Spoke to Rohit Ghai, behind some of London’s biggest south Asian restaurant openings of the last 20 years, about how Indian food has changed London. And, how Indian food in London has changed. For @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/8508...

Blue Zones are meant to help you live longer but are they real? While the popular health hotspots start becoming victims of their own success, two men are feuding over the science driving the concept

They’ve been touted as the healthiest places in the world, with residents living longer than anywhere else. But are Blue Zones real? My dispatch from Costa Rica in @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

Opinion: There's no getting around it: What Britain really needs is more Americans London and the rest of the country rely heavily on tourists from the United States, particularly California and greater New York. But their numbers have fallen.

What Britain really needs? More Americans… my op-ed in today’s @latimes.com www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘I was being groomed to rape’: The young men being taught to hate women Online ‘bubbles of hate’ are weaponising the insecurities of frustrated young males to create violent misogynists with extremist potential

‘I was being groomed to rape’ - the young men lured into incel culture, and how they got out. My report in @telegraphnews.bsky.social today www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

‘My father was the Tattooist of Auschwitz – it took me five attempts to visit his prison home’ After 40 years of trying, Gary Sokolov finally saw the death camp where his parents met – he felt terror but also a sense of gratitude

Gary Sokolov’s father was ‘the Tattooist of Auschwitz’ - but it took his son five attempts to pass the death camp’s gates. Visiting was ‘the best thing I ever did,’ he told me in @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

Clare Smyth: With the budget changes, restaurants will have to close As Clare Smyth prepares for ‘the Olympics of cooking’, she sits down with Charlotte Lytton to discuss gender roles in kitchens, challenges in the restaurant industry, and what’s next

My interview with Clare Smyth on abuse in kitchens, the perils of Michelin success, and how restaurants will inevitably be clobbered by incoming budget changes - in @standard.co.uk www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...

Is this the $200,000 ticket to cheating death? A German cryonics start-up is offering a chance at a second life for the cost of a sports car. Is cryogenics within reach, or still an empty promise?

In Berlin, Europe’s first cryonics firm offers a second chance at life - for the price of a sports car. Is it all just empty promises? My piece for BBC Future www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Blame stars’ faulty fertility apps for rise in abortions Influencers with millions of followers are pushing unreliable methods of contraception, leaving the health service to count the cost

The number of women using fertility apps for birth control - and then seeking abortions - is up almost sixfold. Why are influencers helping to peddle dodgy science that puts women’s health at risk? My column in today’s @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/fcd8...

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Talking about this on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social with @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/radio/live

What really happened behind the scenes of The Jerry Springer Show? The US talk-show changed TV for ever. But it was also out of control. How does the team that made it feel about it now, asks Charlotte Lytton

Twelve years after I ended up in the audience of the Jerry Springer Show, and ahead of a new Netflix doc, I wrote about how the ‘pioneer of trash TV’ got made. In today’s @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/article/235b...

Whimsy is dead in London: why must I book restaurants and theatres months in advance? Fancy eating out, catching a show or doing quite literally anything beyond your own four walls this side of 2024? Good luck: we’re now in the grip of booked-up Britain. What appeared to be a blip duri...

Following this, in @thelondonstandard.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/comment/rest...

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On @bbc5live.bsky.social talking about how pre-booking bores are ruining Christmas www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...