Observations on the world and its inhabitants
The history of world-class achievement is haunted by one harrowing question: Is genius inextricably tied to suffering? Across music, literature, and the unforgiving arenas of law, a devastating pattern emerges. Brilliant people possess extraordinary emotional depth and mental capacity. These gifts are frequently rooted in profound personal trauma. This trauma fuels an overwhelming need for ...
Picture the scene: a psychiatrist, armed only with a clipboard and a dwindling supply of professional dignity, receives a memo that reads like the fevered output of a late-night brainstorming session fuelled by expired coffee and unchecked optimism. “Facilitate trauma reenactment sessions using high-definition gaming platforms,” it begins, as though this were a perfectly reasonable ...
The cafe was an olfactory triumph of fresh brewed coffee and passive aggression. A perfect backdrop, Tarek reflected, for Jane’s latest intellectual evolution. He was here because Jane invited him to brunch, but Jane, it appeared, was here to field-test two highly-digestible, conveniently misinterpreted TED Talks. Her enthusiasm was, as ever, a weaponised form of ...
This is about the murder of Sara Sharif. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released a statement following the sentencing of Sara Sharif’s father, Urfan Sharif, and stepmother, Beinash Batool. The CPS described Sara as a “lively and joyful 10-year-old girl whose life was tragically cut short by the very people who should have protected and ...
