My abortion in 1988 was a lesson in care and resistance
Abortion in England in the Eighties was legal, if not easy to access. For the two Irish women in the…
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My grandmother, the quiet radical
How has motherhood evolved over the past 60 years? My gran’s experience – as recorded in her witty book on…
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Personal story: Christmas with my family’s therapist
Spending this much time with relatives is a fundamentally doomed exercise. Mine have developed a ritual to cope.
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How I mastered the mental game of tennis
To my opponents, I looked like slow movement, straight sets, and an easy ride into the next round. But that…
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Lessons in rage at Disneyland Paris
When I was ten, Snow White got into a fight with my mother and hit her. We were at Disneyland…
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The peak
Inside the mind of Dr Jim Down, a leading intensive care consultant, on the night of the peak number of…
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Personal story: The cosmopolitan north London school that shaped me
At Park View, I was one of only a handful of white British students from a middle-class home – and my…
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The wounded healer: how my father’s cancer led me to a life of helping others
Phil Whitaker draws on his experiences as a doctor to investigate how close we are to a cure for the “emperor…
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