Ryde Academy. Skirts too short or head too powerful? The Week
Late on Tuesday night, I was contacted by a reader. “Can you,” they asked, “help?” They went on to link me to various reports of what…
Children’s mental health: do we care nearly enough? The Week
The subject of child mental health is very close to my heart. I was a depressed teenager. I had emotions I could neither name nor deal…
Butcher’s bloody window row: a sign of our over sanitised times. The Week
SUDBURY in Suffolk isn’t often in the news, let alone on Newsnight. At first I thought they’d got the wrong Sudbury and meant the one in London…
Tony Benn: no spin, no false sympathy, no nonsense. The Week.
I HAVE no special anecdote about the former Labour MP and Cabinet minister, Tony Benn, who is, as I write, still alive, just very ill and…
Jobless down, turkeys up. PM relishes his Christmas bounce. The Week.
IT WAS a festive Prime Minister’s Questions today; the last one before the right honourables break up for Christmas and the atmosphere in the Commons was…
Obama finds his voice with a magnificent tribute to Mandela. The Week.
AS THE RAIN blurred the camera lenses in Soweto’s FNB football stadium, Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy president of the African National Congress, took to the podium to…
Sex education fails when it’s all about sex and not emotions. Published in The Week.
IT WAS the last term of primary school and I snuck into the library to look up how babies were made. I had a niggling doubt…
The big six show: so much brain power and not a spark of Light. The Week.
IT WAS the day after the biggest storm to hit Britain in 25 years. As more than 50,000 people were into their second day without electricity,…
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,…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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