The middle-class cats that are ditching meat
As I write, my cats and a visitor from the next street are hammering into their food, at nearly £5…
Teenage terrors
One of the great moments of my student life was opening the door and seeing visitors step back, shocked. I’d…
Victim status
Shame, sex, race and violence in 1980s London – and today
Feel the burn
My trendy wood-burning stove is leaving me cold, wheezy, red-eyed and exhausted
Jail break
In the past two years, our prisons have gone from places of rehabilitation to pits of despair
Old, vulnerable and hungry
The reality for elderly patients in NHS hospitals
A sense of injustice
Sister Christine Frost, who works on an east London estate, sees why young Muslim men are going to fight in Iraq and Syria
No tea or sympathy
Nurses might be overworked but they could still be kind
Stealing history
What do you feel when a survivor of Auschwitz tells you their story?
Death of a salesman
A dying estate agent helped me to see the light
Hard to swallow
Hospital food isn’t a joke. It’s a scandal
The fraying of the NHS
The little signs of a service being pared away

















