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Deborah Orr

Deborah Orr, an award-winning journalist and author, edited the Guardian's Weekend Magazine from 1993-98 and was a columnist for two decades at the Guardian and the Independent. She died, age 57, in October 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/21/deborah-orr-obituary

January 2020

  • Deborah Orr

    Deborah Orr on leaving home: ‘My parents were the jailers I loved’

    In an extract from her posthumous memoir, the writer recalls her escape to university – and how her mother’s disapproval haunted her

January 2018

  • Young girl at computer

    It’s time to stand up to the nasty few on social media

    Deborah Orr
    Bullying is nothing new, and at least when it happens online it’s visible to others. So let’s start calling it out, says Guardian columnist Deborah Orr

December 2017

  • Margaret Thatcher

    So documents about Thatcher have been declassified. What about the rest?

    Deborah Orr
  • Donald Trump in the Oval office

    On second thoughts
    I used to think people made rational decisions. But now I know I was wrong

    Deborah Orr
  • Thousands of lawyers staging a walkout in 2014 against cuts to legal aid.

    The cruelty of legal aid cuts for abused women is now undeniable

    Deborah Orr
  • FILE - Sarah Mullally Named First Female Bishop of London CANTERBURY, ENGLAND - JULY 22: Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby (C), stands with newly consecrated Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester and Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, at Canterbury Cathedral on July 22, 2015 in Canterbury, England. The consecration makes Rachel Treweek the most senior female member of the Church of England. Previously, two women bishops have been appointed, but Mrs Treweek is the first woman who will run a diocese. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

    The BBC gives the church airtime at Christmas. Rejoice!

    Deborah Orr

  • Modern life is lonely. We all need someone to help

    Deborah Orr

  • The Grenfell survivors don’t need our pity – they need homes

    Deborah Orr

  • Dustin Hoffman needs to realise that it’s not how he feels that matters

    Deborah Orr

  • The Damian Green fiasco exposes Theresa May as a trapped and wounded leader

    Deborah Orr

November 2017

  • Sean Connery and Lois Maxwell in From Russia With Love.

    My problem with Viagra? It feeds men’s obsession with macho performance

    Deborah Orr
  • MRI image of head and brain

    Society did right by James Bulger’s killers

    Deborah Orr
  • VARIOUS<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by GLOBE PHOTOS INC/REX/Shutterstock (42724a) DAVID CASSIDY VARIOUS

    It couldn’t be for ever: mourning David Cassidy, the original 70s pinup

  • Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic in 2003.

    By knowing how abusers like Kevin Spacey work, we can root them out

    Deborah Orr

  • For many, free movement causes more pain – and Brexit seems to be the cure

    Deborah Orr

  • Carl Sargeant’s death was a tragedy. But women must keep speaking out

    Deborah Orr

  • Why Nicole Kidman deserves a special round of applause

    Deborah Orr

October 2017

  • Gordon Brown before speaking at the Edinburgh book festival, 2016.

    Gordon Brown’s tragedy is not his flaws, but his failure to admit them

    Deborah Orr
    The former prime minister is less honest than he would like to think, says the Guardian columnist Deborah Orr
  • View through broken window on to street in Manningham

    If the police give up on low-level crime, we all pay a high price

    Deborah Orr
    When the blue light becomes a white flag, it sends a troubling message to victims and criminals, writes the Guardian columnist Deborah Orr
  • NSPCC report<br>NOTE: PICTURE POSED BY MODEL. Undated handout photo posed by a model issued by the NSPCC of a child sitting on some stairs. Around 1.2 million children who have suffered abuse are being let down by mental health services, according to a new report. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday September 26, 2017. The study from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) says that 83% of local plans in England are inadequate, with one in five failing to give any detail whatsoever on how they will care for children who have been abused or neglected. See PA story HEALTH Children. Photo credit should read: Jon Challicom/NSPCC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    In Britain’s landscape of cuts, it’s our children who are lost

    Deborah Orr
    Austerity has starved their families of help. There are now 72,000 children are in care, and we don’t know what to do, writes Deborah Orr
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