Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
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Now that I have cancer, how should I live?
Once a death sentence, my diagnosis has proved a weird limbo of scattered treatment and blurred identities.
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As an Albanian, I know first-hand the cruelty and contempt of UK immigration
Lea Ypi has suppressed the worst things about being an immigrant in this country. But the government’s anti-Albanian rhetoric brought…
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My life flashed before me. Hang on: where were the good bits?
That first evening in hospital was difficult – more difficult than I knew at the time. I was weak as…
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My abortion in 1988 was a lesson in care and resistance
Abortion in England in the Eighties was legal, if not easy to access. For the two Irish women in the…
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My grandmother, the quiet radical
How has motherhood evolved over the past 60 years? My gran’s experience – as recorded in her witty book on…
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Personal story: Christmas with my family’s therapist
Spending this much time with relatives is a fundamentally doomed exercise. Mine have developed a ritual to cope.
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How I mastered the mental game of tennis
To my opponents, I looked like slow movement, straight sets, and an easy ride into the next round. But that…
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