When asked what the best early training for a writer was, Hemingway claimed that it was “an unhappy childhood”. Check. I have that one...

The film director Richard Donner died earlier this month. Beyond the obvious loss, there is no tragedy here: he was 91 and had led a full...

I love to be able to lose myself in a piece of music. I like tracks that have a headlong motion – that make you feel that you are falling...