The Guardian has started including carbon counts in its weather reports. July’s average: 411.77 parts per million in the atmosphere. It’s 3.06 more than July last year. The points per …
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Jemima is lying under her bed, elbows digging into the threadbare carpet, colouring. She isn’t doing her best work. For one thing, it is quite dark under there. And she …
Another shooting, a targeting of Muslims And it all feels far away I think of my One Muslim Friend I conjure the image of his body on the floor Blood …
Jacinda had a baby which is remarkable because she is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Contrary to historic opinion, women who are powerful can also be feminine. Now we …
From the moment you burst into this life the world began to tell you what you needed. A pink headband and that weird giraffe chew toy turned into a Jojo …
I feel like I’ve always heard mothers talk about falling in love with their babies instantaneously. It’s a cliché, right? That soft-focus moment in films where the exhausted new mother …
I’m sitting on the ground in a small hotel playground. My head is thumping, I feel like it should be the middle of the night, but its still early in …
May 10th, 2018 1. A few weeks ago my lecturer told the class off for sending her emails like “Hiya I’m not in a group?” She said she needs more …
It seemed to really care about the problem of under-representation of women in positions of power, but didn’t prescribe a radical enough solution. Or any real solution. …
Trigger warning: family violence I was four years old. We lived in a little bungalow with a huge garden full of neatly trimmed roses. Mum is good at maintaining roses. …
Trigger warning: family violence Psychologists say we search out similar situations to those we experienced as children. Scenarios which bring out similar emotions and allow us to reenact all those unresolved …
“You’re whiter than I am!” He/she/they say as they hold their tanned arm up to my pale limb. “What are you anyway, a 64th or something?” It’s why it took …
Writing this may make it seem too real. These are things I have not visited for a long time, these thoughts and actions have lived in a separate place I …
My husband rang me yesterday. An incident at school he said. A boy pulled our daughter’s pants down. In front of a group of other children. He put me on …
It’s the last day of term and parents nationwide are rejoicing at the thought of two weeks without the frantic rush of the school run, the tedium of nightly spelling, …