The Social Distance Between UsFrom poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the

But one finds him anyway

and even a working holiday to Italy is very welcome

An outsider whose only companions are a hateful hawk and memories of the lost

reports of Pakistan's imminent collapse are not unusual

His great love is basketball: his prodigious leap and lightning speed make him an exceptional player

He created the first ever programmable digital computer

Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

playwright and lecturer

Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner

All families have their problems

from the dawn of civilisation to the present day

how we release emotions rather than bottle them up and how we ride the ups and downs