Anne Karpf

Profile: Full name: Anne Karpf Area of interest: Society, health, culture and religious belief Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: akarpf9@hotmail.com | anne.karpf@guardian.co.uk Personal website: Website: Guardian.co / Ann Karpf Blog: Representation: AP Watt Networks:

Biography: About: Education: Oxford University; and a postgraduate degree in the Sociology of Health and Illness Career: worked for BBC Television; Cosmopolitan: contributing editor; The Times: book reviewer; The Guardian: radio critic and columnist Current position/role: columnist, journalist and broadcaster also writes for The Jewish Chronicle Other roles/Main role: Other activities: teaches writing at London Metropolitan University Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: The Independent: Anne Karpf: The human voice 9th September 2007 Broadcast media: Video: regular broadcasts on BBC radio and television Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Awarded the Commission for Racial Equality’s Race in the Media Award for national newspapers, 2003; also shortlisted for Amnesty International Media Award, 1993 and a Norwich Union Medical Journalism Award Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Doctoring the media: the reporting of health and medicine OCLC 17776731, 1988 The war after: living with the Holocaust OCLC 60283745, 1996 Latest work: The human voice: how this extraordinary instrument reveals essential clues about who we are OCLC 266235917, 2006 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Guardian: Column name: Remit/Info: Family matters Section: columnist in the Saturday Guardian's Family section until 29th March 2008, has since written in the comment & debate section and comment is free (as of 24th Aug. 2008) Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: anne.karpf@guardian.co.uk Website: Guardian.co / Ann Karpf Commissioning editor: Day published: Varies - formerly a regular Saturday column Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Don't be fooled. Europe's far-right racists are not discerning - Opportunistic words of love for Jews and Israel cannot disguise the European far right's toxic rhetoric of hatred - 28th March 2012 Unemployment: a utopia we nearly had - Workers in a failing 1970s arms factory created a revolutionary jobs plan. We need their vision now - 1st February 2012 The Quakers: a religion Richard Dawkins could sign up to - They helped abolish slavery and push for same-sex marriage. Quaker Week will show a pressure group rather than a faith - 29th September 2011 Does Ford's new speed limiter turn parents into satnags? - Economic pressures mean the transition into adulthood has been extended – to the detriment of both children and parents - 5th September 2011 France and the Holocaust: A return of the repressed - France's deportation of 13,000 Jews, once a taboo, is at last being properly remembered - 6th August 2011 Surgery can't fix Ed Miliband's voice - A sonorous timbre goes a long way in politics, but Miliband's twang is fine if he speaks from the gut - 29th July 2011 In this golden age of ageing, old people are met with fear and loathing - A hatred of the elderly lies behind both the idealisation of the fit 'third ager' and the abuse of those in care homes - 29th June 2011 It's dodgems on the streets with everyone gazing at mobile devices - Our immersion in virtual worlds has left us clumsy, rude and oblivious to each other in the real one - 25th August 2010 Anti-Semitism is at the limits of irony - Racism against Jews is on the rise, but some of it masquerades as comedy, and that makes it complex to address - 7th February 2010 (writing in The Independent) People who are losing their past still deserve a future - Care homes, arts projects and other innovations in dementia treatment could save people from a life of bland reassurance - 3rd December 2008 Our first step towards understanding the death of this child should be not to blame social workers - but to face the mother's experience of childhood. Rather than dwelling on the horror, we should try to learn from the killing of Baby P - 15th November 2008 Islamofascist slanders - Equating Muslims with Nazis is a hazard in the Middle East, and misfires as a smear on Obama - 4th November 2008 Economic with actuality - 'Credit crunch' is just a euphemism for financial crisis. And please, don't mention the R-word - 30th July 2008 The final column - Abandoning mothers? Ask the children packed off to boarding school - 29th March 2008 The average couple with children spend just 15 minutes a day alone together. They should try dating - 15th March 2008 There's no such thing as a perfect mother – and that's half the fun - Raising a family is less stressful when we don't try too hard, says a mother-of-two. The Campaign for Real Mothers starts here... - The Independent on Sunday, 2nd March 2008 The state wants my daughter to be vaccinated, but I want to know more - the HPV vaccine debate - 1st March 2008 An unexpected gift and a family party makes me wonder what cousins mean - 16th February 2008 How do you tell off other people's children? - Wednesday, 6th February 2008 Too many options - 'Shopping around' is just a euphemism for 'another demand on your time' - 19th January 2008 These are just things, not pieces of her - As long as my mother's flat remained unsold, without her but still filled with her things, I could, in some small part of me, sustain the fantasy that she might return - 5th January 2008

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