Skip To Main Content
Van Badham on Muck Rack

Van Badham

Verified
Victoria
As seen in: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison, The Guardian, MSN, MSN Ireland, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, The New York Times, The Guardian Australia, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK, Yahoo Singapore, ABC News (Australia) and
@Guardian columnist, @WeekOnWednesday co-host, theatremaker, commentator, TV dilettante. Email: asstvanbadham@gmail.com. In my spare time I write books.

Get in touch with Van

Contact Van, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Articles

When it comes to marriage and divorce, is Gen Z the sensible generation?

|
By Van Badham Verified
| MSN UK Verified
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported last month that the marriage rate is declining. As someone who champions marriage, is married and thinks a wedding is lovely, I think it's great news. According to the data , the crude rate of registered marriages per 1,000 residents aged 16 and over fell from 5.5 in 2024 to 5.3 in 2025, with the largest falls occurring among the 25-29s and 30-34s. Why do I celebrate?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

When it comes to marriage and divorce, is gen Z the sensible generation?

|
By Van Badham Verified
| Inkl
‘Even better than having the ability to more easily leave an unhappy marriage is not getting into one in the first place.’ Photograph: Brus_Rus/Getty Images/iStockphoto The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported last month that the marriage rate is declining. As someone who champions marriage, is married and thinks a wedding is lovely, I think it’s great news.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

In a world where superyachts are cringe and firing a rocket ship turns you into a dick joke, what’s a poor billionaire to do?

|
By Van Badham Verified
| Inkl
An unofficially installed poster featuring Elon Musk on a bus shelter in London in November 2025. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images Consider yourself forewarned, lads; while Reuters has catalogued the toys in the “luxury playbook” being marketed to new squillionaires, social media suggests there’s a new status symbol for the aspirational “alpha male”. And it’s not a Birkin-for-boys – even if Erling Haaland is wearing one.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (6) Issue with article?
See all 117 licensed articles (469 Total)

Interview

See all →

What was your first job as a journalist?

A party. But the snacks have to be really good.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

A lot more enemies who I haven’t even met in person.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

In a rowboat, at twilight, drinking lemonade.