“From the place where we are right, flowers will never grow in the spring. The place where we are right is hard and trampled, like a yard “ Written by the Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai. Comment from Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral: ‘This is the place where a passionate, sometimes religious, [...]

Fireman Edric Kennedy-Macfoy just wanted the police to say ‘sorry‘. Off- duty, dressed in a pin-striped suit and driving an Audi, he stopped to help the police who were being attacked with bricks and bottles after shutting down a party. The police assumed he was one of the partygoers – who like Kennedy-Macfoy, were black. [...]

Have you seen the film 50/50? It’s loosely based on the real-life experience of its script-writer, Will Reiser, who had a rare form of spinal cancer that didn’t respond to chemotherapy and was eventually excised through surgery. The Guardian newspaper critic was dismissive: ‘Charmless, shallow, smug and unlikeable. A ‘bromance’ weepie about cancer’ he said. ‘One [...]

If my computer was hacked, what would I do? Get angry? Yes! Despair that anyone would choose to inflict such damage? Yes! Curse? Yes, in no uncertain terms! But engage in a dialogue with the hacker? Surely not. Who would take up that challenge? And what would happen if they did? Here are two examples [...]