The co-founder of Giffords Circus, Nell Stroud, grew up in Oxford and had a place at the university when she took a gap year to work as a drudge at Circus Flora in St Louis, Missouri; it changed the course of her life. She finished her degree but...
The terminally ill adults (end of life) bill in England and Wales recently met its assisted death at the hands of the House of Lords. The last parliamentary session ended and the bill fell, buried beneath more than 1,200 peer-tabled amendments...
People still seem to care about Cannes. Not just the streams of tourists, upscale scammers and hopeful film producers who arrive each year, but actual stars. It’s true that the big Hollywood bucks are no longer splurged on the festival, so that...
Tuesday Midway (more or less) upon the journey of life, I find myself on a boat to San Giorgio Maggiore church. Venice is grey and wet. Across the water, tourists disembark at San Marco and, in the widening space between us, a solitary...