Alison Jane Reid

Ethical Hedonist Awarded Social Enterprise Status. I am very proud to share some important and exciting news! Ethical Hedonist Magazine has been awarded social enterprise status by Social Enterprise UK. We are now a social enterprise media business for the work we do as an organic and sustainable magazine to

Gino D’Acampo’s Italian Coastal Escape! Fantastico! Bellisimo! I enjoyed every twinkling minute of Gino D’Acampo’s zany, picaresque, exuberant, culinary adventure on Gino’s Italian Coastal Escape. It’s an ode to slow fast food. There’s a dash of the Italian Jamie Oliver laced with the

Intro Welcome to our mental health wellbeing column. A life-affirming place full of simple, inspiring mindfulness and wellbeing tips to restore and burnish your mental health. Think of us as catnip for the brain! A Broken Brain As I rushed around at life, being a successful feature writer and fashion

Butterfly Child Ana Friel stars in Butterfly a family drama about gender and identity. Friel is an accomplished and daring actor, who continues to choose bold, exciting and sometimes controversial roles on the small screen.  In Butterfly, she plays a mother torn between holding onto her son and letting him

Strangers Starring John Simm Strangely, Strangers  – ITV’s big-budget autumn thriller, with a stellar cast to match that includes – John Simm, Emilia Fox, Dervla Kirwan, Katie Leung and Anthony Wong didn’t thrill me at all until the very end of episode one. How clever! But to begin, I found

Thank goodness the Sunday night costume drama is back. Olivia Cooke sparkles as Vanity Fair’s modern material girl, Becky Sharp.  Olivia plays Becky with a breezy, rather charming, picaresque sense of breathless desperation, steely resourcefulness and brazen bravado, and a fashion arsenal worthy of a modern Instagram princess. Despite

Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure We do adore a good slow travel odyssey. Sit down, relax, with a glass of organic wine, or put the kettle on for tea and come with us, and Joanna Lumley, as she adventures along the fabled Silk Road… the route of kings and