Journalism

POWER AND POISE / OH COMELY

When we think about physical performance, we have a tendency to ignore the journey in favour of the result: how much, how high,

The reed bends with the wind, so says the parable, while the oak tree breaks in the storm. This is a lesson about

In the introduction to Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, Sara Pascoe writes, “I’m not attempting to be the last word in

The end of the line. The final stop. This bus terminates here. There is a place where each of us is heading, a

“Jason, can you hear me?”, I said to the empty bedroom. “Are you there?” Apparently I was not. I got up from my

I was sitting in a Pizza Hut in the past, waiting to be disappointed. The conversation turned – as conversation inevitably does when

Our generation has been robbed. Technology trends towards the bland, as the curved electronic rectangles in our homes will attest. Before the height

As you spot your third grey hair in the bathroom mirror, you realise that soon the day will come when you stop counting

You’d always assumed that Desert Island Discs was purely theoretical. The unsmiling men that greet you upon your exit from the recording studio,

Just because something is a pencil sharpener with I WENT APE AT BRISTOL ZOO printed on it doesn’t mean that it can’t also