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Famous people are all very well. Famous people are sometimes even interesting, but famous people are used to being interviewed. Christina thinks it can be more interesting to talk to people who aren’t used to talking to a journalist. She has, over the years, written thousands of columns about “issues”, and done hundreds of interviews with very famous people, but she also likes taking an issue – like teenage parenthood or intergenerational unemployment - and giving it a human face. In The Sunday Times magazine, for example, she has written about women who don’t have children, and started off by talking very personally herself. After an angry email from a male reader, she was invited to do a follow-up about childless men. In both cases, she was touched by the way her subjects opened up. In her features, she aims to combine analysis with personal stories and feeling in ways that make people think.

You can download a pdf of this article from The Sunday Times magazine here. The photographer, by the way, wouldn’t let Christina smile.
You can also download pdfs of the following pieces from the Sunday Times magazine:
- ‘My final dream was to have children’: Middle-aged, lonely, childless… and male. Christina Patterson tries to get Britain’s silent army of single men talking.
- Living on benefits from one generation to the next
- Britain’s youngest parents may be in love, but other adolescent mums and dads tell Christina Patterson of a harsher reality
- I’ll show you mine: the ups and downs of adult sexting
- Unhappy clappy: At 14, Christina Patterson joined an evangelical church to meet boys. A decade on she found herself suffering health problems, speaking in tongues – and she was still a virgin. Here she recounts her escape
- The Woman Who Disappeared
- Cliveden: welcome to the house of fun
- Ebola: the killer is beaten.
- Jihadi Brides: What drives intelligent young women to become "jihadi brides"?
- How it feels to... marry a foreigner
- How to win friends or alienate people: Does the Prevent anti-radicalisation strategy really work?
Can two weeks of 'sleep school' cure horrific insomnia?
A trip to my mother’s native Sweden helped me recapture my childhood
My sister had schizophrenia. She was the bravest person I knew
A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain
‘I had to clamp my jaws together so the neighbours wouldn’t hear my howls’
Why you're never too old to fall in love
I was single for most of my life. At 51 I finally found love
What Prince Harry doesn’t understand about finding 'joy' at work
The real villain in Alice Sebold’s tragic tale has yet to be caught
Five writers share their own missives from an extraordinary 2020
Just lost your job? Here's what you should do next...
Twitter helps to build ventilators from scratch
The Year of Living Distantly: the stuff that happens somewhere else
Despite what they say, life without children can be rewarding
The Art of Not Falling Apart: Rethinking Failure and Shame
When the world sets your teeth on the edge
All by myself: the joys of being single
How it feels to... lose your job in midlife
Alfie Evans: Love, loss and ignorance in the battle of Alder Hey
The ‘new hygge’: downshifting for death
'My other country, my mother country, my mother’s country'
Ask for a pay rise and get it, by the woman who tells female executives how to demand more
The death of a sibling: 'It makes no sense and never will'
Charlie Gard: Sometimes it’s best to let a child go
The world's leading 'brain trainer' reveals tricks for improving your memory
How to win friends or alienate people. Does the Prevent anti-radicalisation strategy really work?
How it feels to... marry a foreigner
The Interview: Carey Mulligan, actress
What drives intelligent young women to become "jihadi brides"?
Pulling pints and cleaning tables is pure joy for this 21-year-old
I was carried towards heaven then cast into hell
Tough love from a tender heart
How to survive losing your job mid-life
Cliveden: welcome to the house of fun.
Unhappy clappy: Christina Patterson's lost youth as a Christian fundamentalist
I'll show you mine, if you show me yours
‘My final dream was to have children’
The fine art of talking rubbish
Living on benefits from one generation to the next
Clicking through to the last page
Lenny Hamilton: 'I'll never forget when Ronnie Kray burnt me with pokers'
Robert McKee - A day with Mr Movie
A day for the people to share in a young man's journey from sadness to joy