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Emma Beddington

Emma Beddington is a freelance writer

September 2024

  • Lawson before a table piled high with vegetables

    I worship Nigella Lawson. But I disagree with her – very strongly – about eating in bed

    Emma Beddington
  • A young woman standing at a kitchen sink, holding a baby and looking overwhelmed

    Parents are anxious, lonely, overwhelmingly stressed – and their crisis affects everyone

    Emma Beddington
  • 5 March 1972_Bloomsbury Survivor_(David Garnett)

    From the Observer archive
    Last surviver of the Bloomsbury Group? Meet David ‘Bunny’ Garnett, 1972

  • Beef cattle standing in a field

    The hell and horror of cow attacks: ‘I told my husband to leave me to die’

  • All these health scares are making me ill. I need someone to tell me croissants are good for you

    Emma Beddington
  • Just six years until my middle-aged ‘career decline’? But I’ve just got started!

    Emma Beddington
  • ‘It’ll have bite, be radical and funny’: celebrating 60 years of the Observer Magazine

  • Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar and unpaid bills

  • The kids are eating us out of house and home – and I couldn’t be happier

    Emma Beddington
  • Overtourism and the climate crisis
    Why bother going on holiday when you can watch other people’s on social media?

    Emma Beddington
  • From the Observer archive
    A pony safari in Kenya to a murder mystery weekend in New York, the Observer’s travel special, 1986

August 2024

  • Owen Ensor, CEO of Meatly, with his cat.

    ‘You don’t need animals to make real meat’: the man who grows chicken in a lab

  • bearded father and teenage daughter playing soccer on summer meadow<br>leisure, family, outdoor, weekend, teenager, parent, father, dog, relaxing, nature,

    No brothers or sisters? That doesn’t mean you’ll grow up spoiled and lonely

    Emma Beddington
  • I thought I was done with parenthood. But the tortoises had other plans

    Emma Beddington
  • Detail of Simonetta Vespucci by Piero di Cosimo, 1490. A beautiful woman with  bare breasts, coiled hair and a snake around her neck

    Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed

  • From the Observer archive
    Men with long hair – the derision and glory in 1964

  • An American came to stay – and completely changed my attitude to water

    Emma Beddington
  • Birth changes women’s bodies for ever – and we need to get real about it

    Emma Beddington
  • From the Observer archive
    What is a princess for? Our national obsession with Diana, 1985

  • From the Observer archive
    Alec Rose, the greengrocer who circumnavigated the globe in 1968

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