Many in isolation are desperate for travel. I, meanwhile, have been travelling in order to find isolation. Inspired by a 13th-century Cistercian wall at the bottom of my garden in Norfolk, a couple of years ago I began visiting some of the great religious houses of Britain and then traced the route of monasticism from … Read more
Jolted awake as she felt the bedclothes being snatched from her body, 15-year-old Shirley Hitchings let out a terrified scream which brought her father Wally and older brother John rushing into her bedroom in Battersea, South London. They arrived just in time to see a sheet being spirited from her bed by invisible hands — … Read more
Gordon Brown often struck a forlorn figure as Prime Minister. But it was the dithering over what was his favourite biscuit that did the damage and best defined his short-lived premiership, after he was asked no fewer than 12 times by the Mumsnet website to reveal whether he was a Bourbon man, a Lemon Puff … Read more
It’s been six years since beloved comic and Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams died by suicide at his San Francisco Bay home. And now a new documentary documents his final days and for the first time, explores what he went through as a result of suffering from the neurodegenerative disorder Lewy body dementia. In Robin’s Wish, … Read more