Sophie Butcher
@sophiegracebutcher.bsky.social
Social editor @inews.co.uk | South London
We know that the housing crisis impacts everything from productivity to birth rates to how much we spend on the NHS. So why not dating too? On Miranda Hobbs, mummy’s boys and the male loneliness epidemic: inews.co.uk/opinion/hous...
The housing crisis has a new victim – my love life
I simply don't want to date men who still live at home with their parents
inews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We know that the housing crisis impacts everything from productivity to birth rates to how much we spend on the NHS. So why not dating too? On Miranda Hobbs, mummy’s boys and the male loneliness epidemic: inews.co.uk/opinion/hous...
Catch me on @theipaper.com’s front page! Article here: inews.co.uk/opinion/hous...
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Catch me on @theipaper.com’s front page! Article here: inews.co.uk/opinion/hous...
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...
My perspective for @theipaper.com ⤵️ inews.co.uk/opinion/25-r...
I'm 25 - if we raise the state pension age I worry I'll never retire
My generation is at a disadvantage again
inews.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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...
My perspective for @theipaper.com ⤵️ inews.co.uk/opinion/25-r...
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...
Pleasure to go back and write this piece for @thelondonstandard.bsky.social
www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...
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...
www.standard.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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...
Pleasure to go back and write this piece for @thelondonstandard.bsky.social
www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...
Reposted by Sophie Butcher
"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
Read more: https://trib.al/cIA545l
July 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"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
Read more: https://trib.al/cIA545l
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...
For @theipaper.com, I sat with that feeling inews.co.uk/opinion/a-fu...
A future free of fat people isn't some sort of utopia
Weight-loss jabs are going to fuel eating disorders
inews.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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...
For @theipaper.com, I sat with that feeling inews.co.uk/opinion/a-fu...
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'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
inews.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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 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
inews.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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...
Reposted by Sophie Butcher
I soon learned that people join Raya to prove they can join Raya - myself included, writes @sophiegracebutcher.bsky.social
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
inews.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I soon learned that people join Raya to prove they can join Raya - myself included, writes @sophiegracebutcher.bsky.social
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-...
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
inews.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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-...
Reposted by Sophie Butcher
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
November 29, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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