Sophie Willan, Comedian: Alma’s Not Normal
Never mind the bog rolls, if ever the country needed a reet good gallows laugh it is now. Fortunately for us, there’s a comedian who can help us in our dark hour....
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Millfield School: Smells Like Team Spirit
From the moment the Millfield Girls 1st XI first stepped onto the astroturf together in the September of 1989, I knew we had that special kind of magic....
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Snow Artist Simon Beck Tells Us About His Cool New Art Form & Life At Millfield School
For over a decade he has been walking in snowshoes to draw incredible geometric images on the pure white snow of the Alps. And the rest is as they say mathematics......
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12 Things You Didn’t Know About Author Margaret Atwood
In the oppressive public heat of Margaret Atwood’s much awaited new book The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Nikki Wordsmith compiles a quick list of 12 things you didn’t know about her......
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Prescient 9/11 Column Still Holds True Today
When the self-invented gonzo and sports journalist's career was allegedly in a terminal nose dive he wrote this piece for his Hey Rube column in the couple of days after the planes hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, because as he says 'even ESPN were broadcasting war news'....
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