When you smash a statue or scribble on a wall, are you just breaking something old – or, could you be making something new? If we’re taking meaning as our raw material, then defacement is nothing less than transformative.


How Destroying Art is an Art of Its Own

Millennial Agony Aunt

Our Millennial Agony Aunt returns to help a struggling actress.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 20

Our Millennial Agony Aunt returns once again to aid someone in their Hinge endeavours.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 19

Our Millennial Agony Aunt returns with a new bibliophobic quandary.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 18

Our Millennial Agony Aunt returns with three new quandaries.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 17

Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 16

This week: letting go of the past, friends' cringe TikToks, and picking up new hobbies in your 20s (that don't involve the pub). 


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 15

This week: we follow the theme of how regretful drunken comments or behaviours can push relationships to the brink.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 14

This week: problems with having sex after moving back in with the parents to adult men wearing Lynx Africa.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week 13

This week: illicit crushes, sister rivalries, and being broken by the city of London.


Millennial Agony Aunt: Week Twelve

The enduring appeal of Henry VIII’s extraordinary second wife.


Anne Boleyn: Temptress, Witch, or Six-Fingered Heroine?

What happens when creatives create artists? Over screens and on the page, characters who make things have to be made in someone’s image – but in suspending our disbelief, it’s easy to forget who’s really behind fiction’s greatest works of art.


Art Within Art: Whose Line is it Anyway?

In everyone's life, the time comes when you look at teenagers and feel baffled.


What Are The Kids Wearing?

Boxed In: Do Subscription Boxes Infantilise Us?

Near your inbox are piles and piles of ultra-compelling correspondence, calibrated to short circuit your tiny animal brain. A world of instant gratification, incredibly good luck and nothing less than a window into the human soul: frighteningly bleak, adorably optimistic, and surprisingly easy to please. Emily Watkins speaks, of course, of the humble junk mail folder.


Clicky-Clicky: The Genius of Junk Mail

Is the rush to preen and prune ourselves now that salons and shops have reopened indicative of our shallow nature? Or does it go deeper than that, enjoined with values such as liberty and optimism? Emily Watkins argues the latter.


Lockdown Makeovers are Necessary and Brilliant

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Emily Watkins is a freelance journalist who lives and works in London. For whynow, she has written about the weird and wonderful from Zooming to Ancient Astronaut Theorists. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As whynow’s resident Millennial Agony Aunt, she responds to your generation-specific quandaries from the depths of her on-brand existential crises.</span>

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Emily Watkins

Emily Watkins is a freelance journalist who lives and works in London. For whynow, she has written about the weird and wonderful from Zooming to Ancient Astronaut Theorists. 

As whynow’s resident Millennial Agony Aunt, she responds to your generation-specific quandaries from the depths of her on-brand existential crises.

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