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Catherine Deveney

Catherine Deveney

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Pharmaceutical companies have become a shameful medical mafia

Perhaps the reason the story of the French Parkinson’s sufferer who learned to walk again with the aid of a spinal implant that sends impulses to...

01.12.2023 3

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Understanding complex loss refugees suffer is key to being truly compassionate

For all her bluster and chutzpah, my mother was a tender-hearted wee thing who cried at the drop of a hat. On the rare occasions she heard a rendition...

23.11.2023 2

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Children in war zones are being failed – do we hate our enemies more than we love our kids?

Sometimes, images from war zones become such an unbearable sea of pain that individual faces are secondary to the sheer communal disaster of it all....

16.11.2023 1

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: You’re not imagining it – our own government is gaslighting us

The word has been running round my head now for months and months, like a tune I can’t get rid of. Gaslighting. Outside my window, winter darkness...

09.11.2023 2

Evening Express

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How can we lock up desperate shoplifters while corporations rob us blind?

When King Charles delivers his first King’s Speech to parliament next week, it will include details of the new criminal justice bill. Ministers have...

02.11.2023 1

Evening Express

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Stop law and order misogyny by giving more women senior cop and court jobs

In The Long Shadow, the television dramatisation of the notorious north of England murders by Peter Sutcliffe in the 1970s, what emerges clearly is...

26.10.2023 1

Evening Express

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Especially at times like these, we need the Aamer Anwars of the world – with ambition and heart

It is, for sure, easy to snigger at the recent BBC Scotland documentary series The Firm, featuring Scottish human rights lawyer, Aamer Anwar. Anwar,...

19.10.2023 2

Evening Express

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Free speech must never be used as a smokescreen for abuse

One winter night, aged about 15, I waited at the bus stop opposite my house, en route to ballet class. A man began talking. Where was I going? What...

12.10.2023 2

Evening Express

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Mental health crisis will continue as long as we ignore poverty, isolation and trauma

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05.10.2023 2

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Mental health crisis will continue as long as we ignore poverty, isolation and trauma

Teaching poetry to teenagers can be a tricky business. In school sessions, I used to choose poems that captured strong emotions young people might...

05.10.2023 2

The Press & Journal

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Countries and people need their unique stories to be heard, not erased

Everyone loves a story. Here is one about a relationship. In this story, one partner holds more power than the other. Their superior strength inclines...

28.09.2023 2

Evening Express

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Everything was a joke to Russell Brand, who hated being told using and abusing weren’t funny

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21.09.2023 2

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Everything was a joke to Russell Brand, who hated being told using and abusing weren’t funny

If you open a can of Scotch broth, you don’t expect chicken soup to slide glutinously into the pan. It is what is says on the tin. Unsurprising,...

21.09.2023 2

The Press & Journal

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Catherine Deveney: Need for ‘Martha’s rule’ should prompt urgent reflection and change within NHS

After she died, this person I loved, her house changed instantly. I associated it with warmth, but when we gathered there, it felt cold. The sitting...

14.09.2023 6

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Post-Queen Elizabeth II, it’s clear how the royal family drama will eventually play out

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07.09.2023 1

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Catherine Deveney: Post-Queen Elizabeth II, it’s clear how the royal family drama will eventually play out

The Anniversary: a royal drama. Scene one: It is one year since the matriarch’s death, and The Family have gathered for their annual holiday at the...

07.09.2023 2

The Press & Journal

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Baby formula advertising restrictions are not ‘anti-feminist’

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31.08.2023 2

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Baby formula advertising restrictions are not ‘anti-feminist’

What was the moment, I wonder, when Richard Walker, executive chairman of Iceland frozen food – a company specialising in such yummy delights as...

31.08.2023 1

The Press & Journal

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Catherine Deveney: I saw the sensitivity behind Michael Parkinson’s no-nonsense exterior

Interviewing interviewers is a tricky business: you can’t kid a kidder, as they say. Gyles Brandreth, for example, was hilariously ebullient to the...

24.08.2023 4

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Since eternal youth is off the table, who really wants to live forever?

I cannot help noticing that those who urge us not to fight ageing, but instead embrace grey hairs and support stockings with charm and good grace, may...

17.08.2023 5

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Catherine Deveney: Maaate, David Baddiel’s brand of unchecked entitlement will always get in the way of equality

I await with bated breath the next instalment of what must surely develop into a series in The Times newspaper. It kicked off last week with a front...

10.08.2023 2

Evening Express

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‘Short-term votes for long-term climate catastrophe’ seems to be the latest Tory campaign slogan

As we speak, Housing Secretary Michael Gove should be somewhere on a Greek island, lapping up moussaka and retsina – assuming, of course, that...

03.08.2023 3

Evening Express

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Scotland’s land is ours, but we are its caretakers not its owners

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27.07.2023 3

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Catherine Deveney: Scotland’s land is ours, but we are its caretakers not its owners

It is impossible to visit the picturesque Perthshire village of Kenmore, on the banks of Loch Tay, without sensing history. The village square is...

27.07.2023 2

The Press & Journal

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Clever French football advert proves unconscious bias is getting in the way of equality

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20.07.2023 1

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Clever French football advert proves unconscious bias is getting in the way of equality

The wonderful thing about the French Football Federation’s advert for  the Women’s World Cup, which begins on July 21, is that it reaches – to...

20.07.2023 2

The Press & Journal

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Catherine Deveney: BBC scandal has underlined how badly our society tackles abuse

There has been, in the coverage of the BBC cash for photographs scandal this week, the distinct whiff of schadenfreude from Tory politicians who...

13.07.2023 2

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: NHS must find its way back to being a compassionate community, not a corporate entity

Rakesh Singh lives in the slums of Kalighat, the red-light district of Kolkata, India. At 13, he contends with big issues; he has seen life already....

06.07.2023 2

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Forget Musk v Zuckerberg – I’m backing Prince Harry

One of the dilemmas facing tortured philosophers is how to prove we are actually alive, which only proves that philosophers are people who, if they...

29.06.2023 3

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Returning to my former council house exposed the betrayal of modern families

The rose bushes were gone. In the baking city heat, scraggy tufts of scorched grass sprawled through concrete where the lawn had once been. The...

22.06.2023 2

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Catherine Deveney: When it comes to Phillip Schofield, enough is enough

When confronted by wildlife videos in which some hapless animal – perhaps powerful in its own kingdom – gets surrounded by predators, I look away...

09.06.2023 10

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There’s one important reason why Johnny Depp’s paintings shouldn’t be sneered at

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01.06.2023 2

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Catherine Deveney: There’s one important reason why Johnny Depp’s paintings shouldn’t be sneered at

It’s pretty obvious that actor Johnny Depp’s celebrity portraits are rubbish, because you know instantly who they are meant to be. Not a good...

01.06.2023 3

The Press & Journal

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Our conversations about race are stuck in a time warp that holds us back

When historian Dr David Starkey told me that his wonderful but monstrous mother “crawled over people like a caterpillar”, I couldn’t help...

25.05.2023 3

Evening Express

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Catherine Deveney: Be afraid of what humans will do with AI, not sentient robots

Actor Tom Hanks’s observation this week that artificial intelligence (AI) creates the potential for him to appear in films long after he is dead is...

18.05.2023 3

Evening Express

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