WHO ARE WE NOW?

25 years ago, Red was launched as a magazine to speak to women embracing ‘middle youth’. Then, it was a new phenomenon, but two and a half decades on, Laura Craik asks how much has changed

A few years ago, my husband, Bruce, announced he might like to be a snail farmer. This idea came to him at a particularly low point in the never-ending debate that rages in our household: How Can We Get A Life? It’s a question that exercises most full-time working people, if they can ever grab a moment to think in the giddy hurtle between the office and the supermarket, home and the school run. Whatever happened to fun?’ This paragraph appeared in the launch issue of Red, 25 years ago. But it could equally have been written today. A quarter of a century later, aren’t we all still consumed by the same issues that Red set out to cover in 1998? And to the struggle to find time to think, parent,…

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Red UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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