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Suzanne Harrington

Wondering about life, death, and decapitation is my New Year's Resolution

MY NEW year’s resolution is to worry more about the affordability of Botox and devote more time to thinking about my cellulite, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 11 Jan, 2016

Storm damage put a lot of things in perspective

As a rapid alphabet of climate change storms continues to wreak rainy havoc upon us, the reality of the new normal has come flooding into our hallways, our sitting rooms, our shop fronts, our businesses, our lives.

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

Why are 300 cheap Christmas presents worse than one very expensive one?

When richer people take their kids on Christmas ski trips or buy them a new Christmas saddle for the new Christmas pony, there are murmurs only of quiet approval, But because 300 fivers mummy went for quantity over quality, she got an online pasting, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 21 Dec, 2015

In despair? Come along and meet the good guys at a refugee camp

A small group of volunteers walks in a snaking line along a narrow brambly path thick with litter and dotted with human poo.

Mon, 14 Dec, 2015

Imagine having to do chirpy small-talk all day long...

A hair salon in Cardiff is breaking with ancient custom by offering clients a ‘quiet chair’. 

Mon, 07 Dec, 2015

We need to think more logically when it comes to events in Syria

So the Turks blew that Russian fighter plane out of the sky. Ooooh, said the internet, panting a bit, it’s World War Three. Which sounds rather over-dramatic. It’s probably all quite simple when you look at it logically.

Mon, 30 Nov, 2015

Terror in Paris takes it toll on refugees in Calais camp

I’D LIKE to tell you how a terrorist organisation impacted on one man’s ability to have a shower. But first, a word about their name. Given that Islamic State is neither Islamic nor a state, it’s probably time to refer to them as Daesh, a name coined by someone in the Syrian resistance.

Mon, 23 Nov, 2015

The Calais refugees know how Parisiens are suffering

Where to start? Firstly, with profound shock and sympathy for those innocent ordinary people who died and suffered in the Paris attacks, and for all those who loved them, and for everyone else in Paris whose ordinary lives are now less ordinary, in the very worst way imaginable.

Mon, 16 Nov, 2015

Nothing sweet for 6-year-old Honey in the Calais’ mud

Honey has just been on an incredibly long journey - not like those ones when you go on holiday and keep asking ‘are we there yet’ - but a journey where she was hidden inside the hold of a small boat with 55 other people, for 25 hours, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Mon, 09 Nov, 2015

We should be more pigheaded about pork

WINSTON Churchill said that they “look us straight in the eye and see an equal”. GK Chesterton thought that their “actual lines… are amongst the loveliest and most luxuriant in nature… the same great curves, swift yet heavy, which we see in rushing water and rolling cloud”. There was even a Celtic god, Moccus, in their honour

Mon, 02 Nov, 2015