Norwegian community spirit and UK inequality | Volunteering

Emma Beddington’s column on dugnadsånd invites readers to embrace the Norwegian tradition of community spirit because of the “feelgood” effect one gets from volunteering, and as an antidote to the isolation many people experience as things around us become increasingly fragile (It’s time to embrace Dugnadsånd – the Norwegian concept we all need right now, 23 March)….

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What’s up with White Fox? How ‘Hotmail viral’ marketing helped the fashion brand win over gen Z | Australian fashion

Four women standing in front of a caravan in the desert appear the first time I open the White Fox app. The cowboy hats, micro-shorts, low-slung belts and knee-high boots suggest they’re on their way to Coachella. The text reads: “Your new wardrobe just dropped,” alluding to the “hundreds of styles” the online-only Australian fast-fashion…

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Let them eat fruit: Meghan’s rainbow plate is easy to make – but hard to justify | Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex

Mothers have spent the week cursing the Duchess of Sussex for her beautifully arranged fruit plate, the showpiece of her new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. The substance of the criticism did seem well founded. On a rustic wooden board, Meghan had fashioned a rainbow from the following: what looked like three punnets of strawberries,…

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