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There are two schools of thought about the existence of “normal”. The first is that there's no such thing, and the second is that there ...

The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo If the French army ever had a colonel as lucid and objective as Colonel Mathieu, sent in to quash...

I'm going to ask you to try to imagine something. Imagine that everything you ever did, however high as a kite it might have sent you at...

There is a fascinating series to be written about a real hospital: how people lie around in casualty for hours because there is only one dec...

We had reached the bit where you were extolling the virtues of grinding it out, keeping a stiff upper lip and behaving like a professional w...

The Manager called on Saturday morning (!) to tell me that I hadn't got any of the jobs I had applied for – which, given that he had tol...

I'm on Jury Service this week. The first trial was stopped short when the main witness for the prosecution – a twenty-year-old girl whos...