Friends who’ve known me for decades tell me I’m always searching for something, whether it’s new experience, meaning, connection or facing down fear in one way or another…

Up and down on public escalators my eyes flicker over endlessly supine forms, repeated with the shoving insistence of propaganda…

Life seldom adheres to order, especially in the theatre…

Like a well-oiled machine, your parents held the door open and fed you to the belly of the city. In return, you got breakfast and a little bit braver…

Fast thinking Gets Things Done. But it is also the mental equivalent of jumping from cloud to cloud, going through never-ending levels of a video game that can only lead to the grave…

We see a multitude of cavalcading colour everywhere, and nobody knows how to use it better than marketing gurus...

The popular perception of a psychopath might still be the knife-wielding maniac, but Hare has challenged this view with his study of corporate psychopathy…

Like immorality, blazing red on a woman’s chest, red is little more than what we make of it in our own prudishness or paranoia…

London is the most surveilled city in the world after Beijing, and proportionally to population size, the UK has as many surveillance cameras as China…

Coming from Ancient China to the West through the Silk Road, paper revolutionised how we communicate...

For as long as people have been taking photos, they’ve been taking photos of themselves…

But why did green eyes become considered as specifically mystical? One probable explanation is that they are so rare: less than two percent of the world’s population are estimated to have green eyes...

As innocent as the can of soup – that staple of your cupboard; holy grail of the lazy; ever-lurking shadow on the supermarket shelf – is the housewife…