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Kerry Hudson

The Guardian

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This week my husband came home from visiting his mum in Scotland with a suntan.  You can bet it led to many questions about where he had actually...

24.06.2025 2

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Kerry Hudson

Want to get kids away from screens? Put them inside one

While friends tell me they hadn't noticed playgrounds until they had their own children this isn't entirely true in my case. I grew up on some of...

11.06.2025 10

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Kids are STILL going hungry: I can't believe I'm having to protest this s**t again

Six years ago, I published a memoir called Lowborn: Growing up, Getting away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns. To write this book, I returned...

29.04.2025 7

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Kerry Hudson: How to go cheap and cheerful in Copenhagen, the local way 'Until I hit my forties, I believed there were two types of traveller.'

Until I hit my forties, I believed there were two types of traveller. There’s the splurger, who goes away once a year and lets the good times...

16.04.2025 4

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Kerry Hudson: Some important Swedish lessons for those who run our prisons system I’ve taken an interest in the early release of non-violent prisoners in Scotland because I have some insight into the communities they will be released into.

I grew up in communities steeped in poverty, indeed, in every aspect of inequality, on council estates around Aberdeen and North Lanarkshire. In the...

02.04.2025 10

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Kerry Hudson: I rode one of the world’s elite cycling races. Here’s how I got on

I consider myself very much a ‘yes’ woman. In fact, I pride myself on it. Would you like another slice of cake? Yes. Would you like an extra hour...

18.03.2025 10

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Kerry Hudson: Nashville: Where to find an antidote to Honky Tonks and Trump’s America

Recently I fulfilled a lifelong dream of visiting Nashville, Tennessee, or Music City as the locals like to call it. I did all the things you’d...

04.03.2025 10

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Kerry Hudson: Respect older folk, they're the most interesting people you know

Do elders really deserve our respect? Now, before you rush to the comments section to tear me a new Scottish-shaped one, I mean, I respect everyone as...

19.02.2025 7

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Kerry Hudson: At last, I've I found the secret to the perfect family holiday

We’ve done it! It's taken us four years and an inordinate amount of air miles, but we have finally come up with the perfect formula for a family...

04.02.2025 20

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Kerry Hudson: Caffeine, sugar and exercise: how the Swedes make the most of winter

When we decided to move to Sweden, our family’s concerns were around immigration laws, safety, healthcare and education. So it was weird that the...

18.12.2024 5

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Kerry Hudson: Being European again is well worth the tangle of red tape

I have been experiencing déjà vu. It's as we pack up our boxes and wrote on the side with black markers: Kitchen stuff, Books, Pants. As we coerce...

02.12.2024 5

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'Books are a ladder for Scottish children to climb above poverty and deprivation'

Scottish Book Trust has given over 290,000 books to children in need of support, living in deprived areas, through food banks, community hubs and...

01.12.2024 5

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Kerry Hudson: Why my mud-eating son will love Swedish preschool

We’re in our local park on a sunny, brisk October weekend and my son has just run over to me in bright red all-in-one waterproofs, his hair slicked...

10.11.2024 5

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Kerry Hudson: The kids were on a wave while I was waiving the fun

Two weeks ago, readers left me sitting on a rooftop bar in Florence with my best mate, overlooking the Duomo, drinking a limoncello spritz with a...

10.09.2024 4

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