Catherine Mayer
2020 Vision, 17 September, 06:30
Andy makes tea while I lounge in bed. We’re enjoying a lazy morning. Our flight from Mallorca arrived late the previous evening. I switch...
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Catherine Mayer
Jun 11, 20206 min read
2020 Vision, 11 June, 19:30
Last New Year’s Eve, Patrick* confided to Daniel* that he felt too ill to go out to dinner. 2020 brought fever and the loss of two...
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Catherine Mayer
Jun 4, 20206 min read
2020 Vision, 4 June, 07:30
It was Stephen, our draft-dodger lodger, who introduced us to the brown rice fast. We had recently moved from London to a Northern town...
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Catherine Mayer
May 14, 20206 min read
2020 Vision, 14 May, 16:00
When my love died fifteen weeks ago, I emailed a question to the thoracic specialist at St Thomas’s who had helped him to manage a...
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Catherine Mayer
May 5, 20205 min read
2020 Vision, 5 May, 10:04
Lockdown limits our movements, but only in the physical plane. This morning I’ve wandered into a redbrick house, on the outskirts of...
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Catherine Mayer
Apr 29, 20201 min read
Landscapes With And Without Andy: an occasional series
Today, as I posted the 12th in this series, I realised something. The more of these empty landscapes I take, the more I can hear Andy's...
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Catherine Mayer
Apr 19, 20203 min read
2020 Vision, 19 April, 22:08
A generosity of time: this was the promise of lockdown. We would be confined, our diaries set free. News organisations urged us to...
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Catherine Mayer
Mar 27, 20205 min read
2020 Vision, 27 March 2020, 06:17
Yesterday passed without human contact but for the moment I opened the window to join in cheering and hollering for the NHS and, after...
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Catherine Mayer
Feb 22, 20186 min read
We need to have difficult debates. We need to find better ways to have them
There’s nothing the media loves more than a fight—except for a fight between women. That they love more. Female columnists get paid to...
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Catherine Mayer
Feb 14, 20185 min read
Why I'm backing Sophie Walker to be Leader of the Women's Equality Party
Sandi Toksvig is an optimist. To explain why the Women’s Equality Party took flight so fast, she alighted on the metaphor of birds...
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Catherine Mayer
Jan 2, 20184 min read
How to Celebrate the Suffrage Centenary
Let the bells ring out. A hundred years ago this February, British women won a great war. Not the Great War: Germany wouldn’t agree the...
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Catherine Mayer
Jun 5, 20173 min read
An unexpected endorsement from U2
I knew in calling my latest book Attack of the 50 Ft Women that I was setting myself a challenge, just as Sandi Toksvig and I understood...
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