OpinionGlobal development This article is more than 4 months oldI spent nine years in a Colombian women’s prison. This is what I learnedThis article is more than 4 months oldClaudia CardonaThe system is failing women, with often devastating impacts on our families, mental or reproductive health. But those who have been inside can change it for the better – if we are allowed
When I started my jail sentence in Bogotá, Colombia, it was 2008 and I was 31 with a four-year-old daughter. Read More...
Pieces of me: Frieda Hughes Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Frieda Hughes was born in 1960 in London, daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. She studied at St Martin’s School of Art and has since held numerous exhibitions. Her first poetry collection, Wooroloo, was published in 1999, named after the hamlet where she lived in Australia, and she is author of several children’s books. Read More...
OpinionTattoos This article is more than 9 years oldThis new wave of tattoos gets under my skinThis article is more than 9 years oldKathryn HughesFor years I had a perfectly serviceable prejudice against body art. But now nice people are inking up. Even Evan Davis
With everyone busting out the T-shirts, sundresses and shorts in this heatwave, I am finally faced with the difficult realisation that nice people have tattoos. Efficient people who know how the photocopier works, kind people who give up their seat on the bus, ethical people who don’t eat meat but are too discreet to make a fuss when you do. Read More...
