A letter to … the midwife who blew in with the snow at Christmas
We jumped when the doorbell rang. It was that time between Christmas and New Year when no one is around…
Experience: I saved a man while dressed as Santa
‘Every Christmas I’d dress as Santa and drive out with a couple of colleagues to deliver gifts to disadvantaged kids.’…
Nigel Slater’s breakfast smoothie and muffin recipes
Breakfast of champions: Nigel Slater’s passionfruit and pineapple smoothie recipe. Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Christmas morning aside, the…
My baby, the refugee: mothers on the hardest journey of their lives
hey have travelled for thousands of miles, carrying their babies in rucksacks and risking dangerous sea crossings. In Calais’s Jungle…
‘He has to have a life, we have to take that risk’: children living with extreme allergies
Until recently, Elian could only eat six different foods. Eggs, dairy, nuts or lentils could kill him – and he’s…