Zoe Strimpel

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Zoe Strimpel
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Born
Zoe Strimpel

8 July 1982 (1982-07-08) (age 43)
London, England
Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
University of Sussex
Occupation(s)Journalist, academic (Gender Studies)
Years active2010-present

Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph .

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Early life and education

Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982. [1] [2] She has a brother. [3] She grew up in Boston in the United States, and moved back to England aged 16. [2] She attended the independent Bedales School, then studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge, [4] where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s. [5]

In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969. [5]

Career

From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM . [6] She has written on gender relations for Elle , [7] the Sunday Times Style magazine, [8] and HuffPost . [9] She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle , [10] and writes for The Spectator , [11] and UnHerd . [12] She writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph , covering gender, dating, identity, and topical events. [13]

Strimpel has appeared on radio and television to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] She presented a podcast on culture called Hyped! with the historian Tom Stammers from 2020 to 2024. She has declared that she is a "pretty major fan of Israel" and wants "Israel’s case to be disseminated to the world". [21]

Personal life

Strimpel lives in a Jewish neighbourhood of north London. [22] [23] She had a daughter in 2024. [24] She is a US citizen. [25]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (23 June 2022). "Like many Jews, I always feel like an outsider". The JC . Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  2. 1 2 "London men: playboys or losers". Evening Standard . 10 April 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  3. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe. "Why, despite everything, I'm still going to holiday in Israel". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  4. ↑ The Wolfson Review, 2012-2013 no. 37, Wolfson College, Cambridge, p. 32
  5. 1 2 "Dr Zoe Strimpel". University of Warwick - Department of History. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ↑ Gunter, Joel (19 May 2008). "Zoe Strimpel joins City AM". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Elle Magazine, Article". 27 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "The People's Book Prize Website" (PDF). 20 April 2010.
  9. ↑ "HuffPost, Articles". HuffPost .
  10. ↑ "Zoe Strimpel (articles)". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  11. ↑ "The Spectator, Articles".
  12. ↑ "UnHerd, Articles".
  13. ↑ "The Telegraph, Articles".
  14. ↑ Dunant, Sarah (Host) (1 October 2018). The Dating Game (Radio broadcast). When Greeks Flew Kites. BBC.
  15. ↑ Gittos, Luke (14 October 2018). "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby". Battle of Ideas. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  16. ↑ Buerk, Michael (Host) (25 July 2018). The Morality of Diversity (Radio broadcast). Moral Maze. BBC.
  17. ↑ Murray, Jenni (Host) (18 October 2017). The Problem With #MeToo (Radio broadcast). Woman's Hour. BBC.
  18. ↑ Hasan, Mehdi (Host) (10 October 2018). Head to Head - Has #MeToo failed? (Television production). Al Jazeera.
  19. ↑ Sales, Nancy Jo (Director) (10 September 2018). Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (Television production). HBO. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  20. ↑ Johnson, Eric (19 September 2018). "'Swiped' HBO documentary - director Nancy Jo Sales explains why swiping on Tinder is addictive". recode.com. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  21. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (20 January 2024). "How Israel is failed by its war of words". The Spectator. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
  22. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (21 June 2025). "London's graffiti-riddled corpse is a warning of our apocalyptic future". The Telegraph . ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 10 July 2025.
  23. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (9 October 2024). "I lost my temper over a keffiyeh in north London". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  24. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (8 December 2024). "A baby's-eye view of the world". BBC. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  25. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (6 December 2020). "I don't normally 'do' Christmas - but this year is different". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
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