In her timely piece for The Independent, Eleanor Mills uses a current political moment as a lens to reflect on how mid-life women can find their experience questioned or reconfigured, even after long records of achievement — and what that reveals about gendered assumptions that persist beneath the surface.

These dynamics aren’t confined to politics. Her own travails at The Sunday Times followed a similar pattern: credibility was judged, opportunities taken away and experience devalued despite a successful career in journalism, leading to a mid-life pivot.

Closely attuned to how the same script plays out at scale, Eleanor uses her keynotes to help audiences make sense of less readily welcomed shifts in their own lives — how confidence can wobble mid-career, how experience is reinterpreted, and why change at this stage can feel disorienting rather than linear.

In her latest column for the The Telegraph, former The Sunday Times editor Eleanor Mills looks at why thousands of ‘walkaway wives’ are calling time on their marriages – and discovering new levels of happiness in the process.

It wasn’t any one incident that convinced Pat*, 55, from Cheshire that she had to leave her husband– just 25 years of feeling taken for granted.

In her latest column for the The Telegraph, former The Sunday Times editor Eleanor Mills argues Prince Andrew’s only true path to redemption is to fully cooperate with the Epstein investigation, naming other offenders and publicly expressing deep remorse to the victims, including those of Virginia Giuffre. Mere withdrawal from royal life or relocation, without genuine accountability and advocacy against such abuse, is presented as insufficient for regaining public trust or family honour!

In a piece for The Telegraph, Eleanor Mills explores a surprising trend: Gen Z’s desire to return to the office. With research showing that nearly 40% of 16–24-year-olds feel lonely due to remote work, she considers whether Gen Z could be the generation to usher in a new era of in-person collaboration.