The power of male friendships (by Miranda Larbi)

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I’m really excited to share this week’s newsletter because the column today is written by one of my best friends. Miranda Larbi is a talented journalist who I met at a university interview day when we were both hoping to embark on a masters course in journalism. Fast forward a few months, and she comes bounding up to me on the first day of the course beaming because we had both got in. We were pretty inseparable after that!

I asked Miranda to write for the Supp because she has been one of my biggest cheerleaders, always Whatsapping me her thoughts and berating me for not getting it out earlier on a Sunday so she can read it before her long morning run. I have also watched her go through a really hard break up and then embark on a real journey of discovery over the last year or so. I’m a bit older than Miranda, as she regularly likes to point out, and have felt so proud of her.

She actually wrote a version of this just before lockdown, but it didn’t feel right to share at the time becau…