Towards the start of 2020, as the first lockdown loomed on the horizon, my mind did its usual thing and melded into a wad of worry. It was heavy, saturated and impossible to wring out while my overlapping responsibilities piled higher and higher. It was at this moment that I…

When people ask me what my favourite film is, my response always surprises them: Deep Impact. Why would a seemingly-run-of-the-mill 1990s disaster movie top anyone’s list ahead of so many other cinematic classics? Because, I tell them, Deep Impact isn’t a film about a disaster. It’s a film about humanity…

When I moved from a Labour stronghold to a Tory safe seat I was wary. I should’ve seen it as an opportunity. I’d lived in London for almost exactly a decade before my partner and I decided it was time to venture a bit further out. Needing to be within…

How to spot — and resist — digital misdirection What did you feel when you heard about this (1)? Or when you saw this (2)? Or tried to get your head around this (3)? I can tell you how I felt: outraged. And, in all these instances, I felt compelled to share my outrage on social media. …

The night before Jo Cox was brutally murdered in her constituency I couldn’t sleep. My uncharacteristic insomnia was in no small part because I was in the midst of an incredibly tough week looking after my poorly one-year-old whilst also struggling with illness myself. …

I opted for a c-section in 2018 after an incredibly traumatic natural birth in 2015. Here’s what I learned having chosen to embark on this positive path… NICE guidelines advise that women have the right to ask for an elective c-section, even if there is no medical need for one. …

We would be knackered for sure. But we would be so happy. Just the three of us, back home. We’d show him each room in turn, spending longer in his little bedroom which we’d decorated in all the colours in the world. I’d sit with him on the nursing chair…