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Joanna Moorhead

@JoannaMoorhead

Joanna Moorhead is a journalist and mother to four children

There needs to be more honest discussions about what mastectomy can and can’t do
Long Reads

Cancer I could deal with. Losing my breast I could not

‘Singer David Brynley’, solarised portrait, c.1933
Features

Helen Muspratt: The woman who photographed the Cambridge spies

Carrington's 'Green Tea' (also known as 'La Dame Ovale'), 1942, the year she arrived in Mexico
Features

The most dramatic moments of Carrington's remarkable story

Carrington's 'Green Tea' (also known as 'La Dame Ovale'), 1942, the year she arrived in Mexico
Features

The most dramatic moments of Carrington's remarkable story

Self-harm among children as young as 10has risen by 70 per cent in just two years
Comment

Self-harm among children on the rise, but we need to support families

Paul's flat-come-studio is a spartan space bought for her by Freud when they were an item
Features

Painter Celia Paul: Lucian Freud's ex-lover tussles with ideas of

The Grand Theft Auto series has highlighted a naivety among parents
Tech

When does laissez-faire parenting become neglect?

Every event in an adopted child’s life is coloured by history
Comment

Adoption reforms will redesign the future

Features

Secretos de la revolución: Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940, at

Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso: These two rented an entire caribbean resort for their second wedding party
Features

Celebrities are not the only ones renewing their wedding vows...

The new Pope takes to the stage
Europe

Now media gets the papal charm offensive

Divorce doesn't just happen to a couple, it also happens to their children
Features

Teens and divorce: The kids are not all right

Lindsay Julian has three daughters: Emily is 24, Olivia (far left) is 14, and Amelia (centre) is 11: 'when my younger girls got close to the age where things got difficult with Emily, I thought: we’re going to do things differently this time round'
Health News

Bringing up daughters: The new battlefield for parents

Health News

Bringing up daughters: The new battlefield for parents

Lindsay Julian has three daughters: Emily is 24, Olivia (far left) is 14, and Amelia (centre) is 11: 'when my younger girls got close to the age where things got difficult with Emily, I thought: we’re going to do things differently this time round'
Most women’s magazines are actually diet-lite
Comment

No, Minister. It's stick-thin celebs you should target

Comment

Caring and sharing is not abuse, Professor Dawkins

Health News

Sex addiction: The truth about a modern phenomenon

Health News

The curious case of the boys who live backwards

Health News

The curious case of the boys who live backwards

A family celebrating Empire day, waving Union Jack flags in the streets of London, England circa 1950.
Comment

It's love, not convention, that makes a family

Comment

Why seeing double is always twice the fun

Together and apart: a scene from 'Hope Springs'
Features

The real secret of staying married

Smile, please: Joanna Moorhead, second from left, and family pose for posterity
Comment

A family snap makes a moment last a lifetime

Gold standard: Laura Trott, in the Adidas photo booth with her medals, is a real role model for girls
Commentators

Joanna Moorhead: It's not your looks that count, it's giving your

Commentators

Joanna Moorhead: Adele has the right idea - have children young

Features

Father's Day: The changing face of fatherhood

Commentators

Joanna Moorhead: This is no way to get children into school

Commentators

Joanna Moorhead: Adele has the right idea - have children young

Features

Father's Day: The changing face of fatherhood

Commentators

Joanna Moorhead: This is no way to get children into school

Home News

Mother's Day: The seven ages of motherhood

Home News

Mother's Day: The seven ages of motherhood

Home News

Catholics bullish over rise in fathers-to-be

Benita could have been one of Whitehall's youngest mandarins but quit her civil service job to run for mayor
UK Politics

Mayoral race is joined by 'Mum for London'

Sixteen-year-old Amelia, who last Friday became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole
Profiles

Amelia makes it to the South Pole

Amelia Hempleman-Adams
News

Amelia of the Antarctic

Amelia Hempleman-Adams
News

Amelia of the Antarctic

David Henson lost both legs while clearing bombs in Helmand province
This Britain

Remembrance Sunday: David's story - Afghan hero has no regrets

Commentators

Joanna Moorhead: To do this job well, you have to make yourself

Commentators

Every parent's nightmare – but how do we say no?

News

Coming soon. Opus Dei: The movie

Christmas Entertainment

Away in a manger: How one Surrey man turned a Nativity in his barn

News

V&A: Raphael's Vatican tapestries and original designs go on show

News

Todmorden's Good life: Introducing Britain's greenest town

Health News

The posters that celebrate cool, multi-tasking breasts

Home News

Meet the dinner party anti-terror squad

Profiles

Personal Column: Prisoner with a conscience

Education News

Why not leave school at 16?

Education News

Why not leave school at 16?

This Britain

Focus: Parents who divorce are selfish, says a leading headmaster. Try

Health News

Screening ­ whose risk is it anyway?

Culture

The crying games

Culture

Health: No one likes to play the waiting game

Culture

Health: No one likes to play the waiting game

Culture

Health: Don't let fear drive mothers to the scalpel

Home News

Cardinal Hume: is he the nation's new moral leader?

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