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Nov 16, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Rosie Kinchen
If you’d asked Tom March two years ago how he felt about assisted suicide, the answer would have been straightforward. “I would have supported the idea of self-determination,” he says. “It seems weird to me that if somebody genuinely doesn’t want to be here, we should force them to be.” But that was before his younger sister, Caroline, a promising event rider and showjumper, chose to end her life at a clinic in Basel, Switzerland, in March, a month after her 31st birthday.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Rosie Kinchen
It’s 11pm on a Tuesday night and I’m on a home-birth forum. A mother has posted a triumphant story. She has delivered a daughter at home. It is a BBA (born before arrival), the term applied when a baby arrives before the midwives do — only in this case that was intentional. At the top of the post is a list of the risk factors the mother has overcome or ignored in delivering her child like this, including a haemorrhage during a previous birth and a high body mass index (BMI).
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Rosie Kinchen
Abandoned babies or foundlings are an emotive subject, conjuring images of Victorian London and destitute mothers driven to desperation. Today, stories like this are thankfully rare, which is why the case of baby Elsa, who was left in a park in Newham, east London, in January, on one of the coldest nights of the year, had such an impact when new details were revealed last week.
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May 25, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen
Mishal Husain is a consummate professional. Her morning interviews on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which she has been presenting for over a decade now, are slick and merciless. Woe betide ministers who turn up unprepared.
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May 5, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Rosie Kinchen
When Rosie Kinchen got married she wanted a low-key affair that didn’t cost the earth. Why was it so hard to pull off?
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May 4, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen
Two weeks before my wedding I sat at the hairdresser and watched as my stylist’s face turned pale. “You haven’t brought any pictures,” she said, her eyes widening. I reassured her that this was intentional. I didn’t want a do; I wanted to look like me but on a good day. I watched as she shook her head slowly. “Wedding hair is styled hair,” she cried. When my partner and I decided to get married earlier this year we knew we wanted it to be low-key and low-cost.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen
‘She wrote without editing herself — driving forward like a burst dam, ignoring typos and hitting enter every time a new thought came to her. It was wild unchained brilliance. Pure poetry leaking onto the screen … The date was January 24, 2013. I had received over a thousand emails from her over the space of ten days.” So reads a passage in Baby Reindeer, the one-man show written by the comedian Richard Gadd, about his experience of being stalked by a woman he calls Martha.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen
It is 7pm in Hove and through the mist come seven figures — one dressed as a large inflatable dinosaur. The figures are women, and they are protesting against Sam Hall, a GP who they say has been prescribing cross-sex hormones to 16-year-olds, sometimes without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Last week the Cass report concluded the NHS has been failing thousands of children by prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones despite “remarkably weak evidence”.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Rosie Kinchen
There is a growing body of evidence that the psychedelic properties of magic mushrooms, MDMA and ketamine can help with a range of mental health problems. Photo / Getty ImagesThe screenwriter Rose Cartwright has suffered from crippling mental health difficulties since she was 18. Could psychedelic therapy help her? It was 2019 when Rose Cartwright found herself tripping in a flat in Amsterdam, listening to panpipe music while two strangers danced in front of her with tears in their eyes.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Rosie Kinchen
It was 2019 when Rose Cartwright found herself tripping in a flat in Amsterdam, listening to panpipe music while two strangers danced in front of her with tears in their eyes. She had been suffering from mental health problems since she was 18, had been diagnosed with OCD and depression, and had been on and off medication and talking therapies ever since.
