The Great British Bake Off Final 2013. The Week.
REMEMBER a time when people baked just for something nice to eat with a cup of tea, not to photograph it? A time when there weren’t…
Masters of Sex: prostitutes, peepholes and propositions
IT’S REFRESHING to see a television programme that, instead of making sex an incidental, cynical part of the plot, simply to facilitate shots of naked people,…
David Cameron sounds nice. Until his eyes narrow and his cheeks go red. The Week.
DAVID CAMERON started his 2013 party conference speech with the emphasis on hard work. Indeed “hardworking people” was in the very first sentence. You could tell…
Are there ANY ordinary people Ed Miliband hasn’t met? The Week.
ED MILIBAND walked onto the stage at the 2013 Labour Party conference wearing a new shirt so white it dazzled. He seemed relaxed and confident as…
Barack Obama brings out his patchwork quilt of a speech. The Week.
THE East Room is the White House’s largest room. An erstwhile playroom, it was where John F Kennedy laid in state in 1963. And it was…
The truth about baby food. Published in The Guardian
Having children is like opening the door to a whole other universe. Arguments you simply never knew existed, you suddenly become part of. News stories on…
How can we protect our daughters from abusive relationships? The Guardian
When I became the mother of one, then two, girls I would occasionally think about the prevalence of eating disorders and what I could do to…
I can’t stand my 12 year old nephew. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa My sister married her husband and they emigrated 5,000 miles away in 2001. They have two boys, aged 12 and nine. The elder takes…
My parents favoured my brothers, now my children are suffering in turn. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My childhood was marred by favouritism. I was the middle child of three: the black sheep, the difficult one, the sickly one. These aren’t…
Independent midwives: Why we can’t afford to lose them. Published in The Guardian.
In February 2009 I gave birth to my second child at home. I had no idea as I feasted on post-partum pancakes (not made of placenta) and…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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