Browsing: strangers

To everyone else, it probably looked like a regular summer’s evening. Couples and families enjoying the beer garden, people playing cricket on the green – and…

I can readily confirm Martin Kettle’s points (Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for, 28 December). I…

We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices…

When I was 15, I grew nine inches in nine months. My bones ached at night. I grew out of my clothes at a rapid clip,…

I’ve had more good sex than most people have had hot dinners, so when I found a lump in my breast and knew straight away it…

In 2024, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with leukaemia. I was 34. I had no symptoms (none!) and it came at the worst possible time, although there…