modern life

Bring back Nancy

16 April 2022 9:00 am

The bank was having Transgender Visibility Day when I popped in to deposit some cash.The stressed-looking customers, meanwhile, seemed mostly…

Stop going through the motions – committees are a waste of time

27 April 2019 9:00 am

God save us from committees. They’re an increasingly outdated way of getting things done. But there’s a certain sort of…

An epic study of trauma and friendship in the age of self-invention

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Just over a century after Virginia Woolf declared that ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’, the American novelist…