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Imagine forgiving yourself completely. The goals you didn’t reach. The mistakes you made. Instead of locking those flaws inside to define and repeat yourself, imagine letting your past float through

Like all novelists I am often asked for writing advice. I genuinely find it hard to give writing advice. I have no idea of how to explain which bits of

Bullies don’t go around saying they are bullies. Workplace bullies often feel like they are right. They often feel you are letting the side down and you need to be

To only see mental health as a direct result of material circumstance is to ignore the fact depression very often doesn’t have a clear external ‘because’. As with cancer there

Ferris Bueller is a film about suicide prevention. Cameron is the real point of the story and Ferris's ambition is to give his depressed friend some self-worth and an ability

20 years ago I was diagnosed with severe depression and panic disorder and nearly gave up.10 years ago I was in massive debt and dropped by my publisher and told

I just wish we had the real feeling the government cared more about lives than economics. You can feel it from many other world governments. But not in the UK.

Office. Everyone is saying ‘why are you wearing socks?’ And I can assure you that despite what other countries are doing I have followed the best British science on this

I know there is nothing more wanky than a writer offering writer tips but I am a writer (and a wanker) and am in a bedroom waiting for one of

We are going through something together. A kind of collective trauma. Or shock. Or grief. We will react with a multitude of emotions. Sadness. Despair. Fury. Reflection. Kindness. Hope. Fear.

The U.K. now has 10,612 deaths to Germany’s 2,871. We had our first cases at the same time. The difference? While Germany scaled up testing and set up crisis response

People quickly trying to downplay New Zealand’s success.A reminder: New Zealand’s population is 85 per cent urban. They are as large as Ireland and Norway and Finland. Their capital is