Tina Malcolm

There are moments in life when the world seems to stop. Watching the news over the past few weeks has been one of those moments for me. Across France, Spain, Canada, the UK and other parts of the world, wildfires have torn through forests, farmland and communities. Families have been forced to leave their homes with only minutes to spare. Firefighters have worked around the clock, farmers have put themselves between the flames and their land, and countless volunteers and charities have...

Or maybe the world has just become strange enough that we all sound slightly unhinged now. Last night I was halfway up the stairs to put my son to bed, while passionately ranting to my husband about billionaires, world economics, American and UK politics and why ordinary people keep voting for systems that clearly do not care about them. Completely standard behaviour in our household lol. At one point I stopped mid-sentencelooked at my husband and said: “I think I’m becoming… a normal person...

We left the château on September 25th, 2018. Our wedding anniversary. I know. Symbolism. Perfect. I’d had my son in March 2017, and almost overnight, the boss turned on me. Not my husband. Just me. Ruthless little digs. Constant criticism. Subtle. Icy. Everything I did was suddenly wrong. And the worst part? I was loyal. The most loyal. If I’d known then about harassment laws in contract law, I would have got advice. Proper advice. Because what she really wanted was for us to give notice so...