Melanie Reid

We disabled people don't deserve nice things, the begrudgers imply. But independence is not a luxury

Parents lost custody of their newborn twins following a diagnosis of fractures – a diagnosis now been found by international experts to be wrong

I don’t want to be a killjoy but, like so many other unpaid carers, this is not the most wonderful time of the year for me. Ignoring the circus of festivities (but not the copious amounts of chocolate) is how I survive it

After my husband developed dementia our caring roles reversed. I thought I would be prepared for his death, but nothing prepares you for this

The BBC’s latest Pride and Prejudice spin-off is a triumph for ordinary people everywhere

Blackmail, orgies and Corsican gangsters: in Murder in Paris ’68, the writer Edward Chisholm explores whether France’s coolest Sixties film star was guilty of murder

What happens when doctors diagnose crimes and medicine enters the court room?

The Greens and Reform may have celebrated their gains in Scotland, but the lowest voter turnout in over 20 years meant the night was far from momentous

A ‘quiet revolution’ in neuroscience over the past 20 years has transformed outcomes for stroke and head trauma patients, says the neurologist Orlando Swayne

Read this exciting story from The Observer July 19, 2026 issue. Making food for one should be an act of self-love, but it’s more complicated than that, says Melanie Reid