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Emma Barnett

Emma Barnett

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Enough with the emotional labour - I'm going on strike

Recently I have been trying something. It’s totally counterintuitive in many ways, not least because I am a woman, but also because of the job I do....

24.03.2024 5

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We’ve forgotten how to find time for our friends

Last month my best friend left London. Moved out. Bigger house, bigger garden and more familial support for raising the kids. You know the drill....

09.03.2024 7

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The age of deferring to our governments is over

Diane Foley was a nurse. She gave that job up when her son, James Foley, an American journalist reporting in Syria, was taken hostage in 2012. She...

25.02.2024 10

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Why women have to maintain faith in the police

In just over three weeks it will be three years since Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old woman, was abducted, raped and murdered by a serving police...

11.02.2024 10

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A text telling women to have babies? Good luck with that

What would a text from Rishi Sunak need to say to convince you to have a baby? No, I am not losing my faculties just yet, nor trying to suggest the...

28.01.2024 9

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My embrace of matching festive PJs has taken me by surprise

This year has been one of uniforms, culminating in one I loved the best: the festive pyjama. My embrace of the matching family PJs has taken me by...

30.12.2023 6

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We're learning how to quit – let's celebrate it

We are nearly there folks. The end is nigh and the beginning near. I can just about sniff 2024. How’s yours smelling? Fresh or slightly stale? You...

16.12.2023 8

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I had the coil fitted and didn’t recognise the woman I became

Over the past eight weeks I have been getting to know a woman. At first, she seemed like my kind of person – someone I could relate to, with a sense...

02.12.2023 2

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How to find happiness in your life – right now

Greetings! I am back – from another land called maternity leave. It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote on these pages. I signed off this...

19.11.2023 10

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