…and tracking the rise and fall of lily-livered liberalism WARNING: This article includes plot spoilers… I’m not sure there is a book in the world I know better than To Kill A Mockingbird. Like hundreds of thousands of British adults, Harper Lee’s classic was the source of months of anxiety…

…it’s not pretty but it might offer more than we think On around the 6th January this year something happened to me which hasn’t happened in 10 years. I woke, noticing that groggy feeling of half consciousness, took a few breaths and contemplated getting out of bed. And then, didn’t…

So I’m sat here on my bed, on day 8 of covid isolation, and while the news reports say ‘it’s just a cold’ I can tell you I still pretty ropey, no better or worse than I did, and I’m starting to accept the fact that this virus is going…

Last week I was at a work conference when I was unexpectedly hit by a tsunami of baby grief. We were in the main hall ‘speed networking’ (which yes, was as awkward as it sounds). I was momentarily paired with a woman who is some hot shot at a big…

Introducing The Field, created with the Odyssey programme I’ve been an Odyssey fangirl for years. When I first heard about it back in 2012, the immersive revolution was well and truly underway in cities across the globe. …

Playing straight? Yeah me too… — In my early thirties I had, I think, my first ever romantic experience with a woman. I was at a secret festival with a friend, and there was this immersive theatre pop-up where you went into a shipping container in the woods, one at a time, for ‘an encounter’. We…

I danced last night. It was the mundane drudgery of another lockdown Saturday that did it. In the supportive/stifling warmth of my family home, I felt like my blood was becoming sludgy. It was getting stuck in my joints, in sinews, attaching itself to atrophysing muscles. I know this feeling…

A story of one hundred years of our lives in this house, before we move on to somewhere new. My dad says that on the day I was born, he walked the 20 mins from this house to the hospital, striding right through the middle of the Moss Side anti-racism…

Wondering why everything is so crazy-making these days? This explainer will help. Hello. So you think you know what’s true and what’s false? Who you can trust and who you can’t? Well let’s see, shall we. We’re going on an exploration of the history, psychology and economics of how we…