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Tokyo-based Kisara Okada was passing through the business district, Marunouchi, on her way to an osteopathy session last month, when the extended neck of a construction crane…

Munaza RafiqDisability producerFamily handoutWren waited more than a year to receive her NHS manual wheelchair, which she has nearly grown out ofMore than a thousand disabled…

When I first suggested knocking on strangers’ doors and offering to write a poem for them, for nothing, on any subject of their choosing, the responses…

This month, Art on the Underground is unveiling a new artwork at Stratford station, London, by the Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt, entitled Saved by the Whale’s…

Just as Christmas can be lonely and isolating for many people, the supposedly official commemorations of parenthood – Father’s and Mother’s days – are equally difficult…

Upon reaching a certain level of renown, an author can expect to be asked why they write. Blame George Orwell, who in 1946 famously published “Why…

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double helix—Crick laid out what he called…

My father died suddenly and I’m still working my way through the half block of cheese that I rescued from his fridge. After a hastily organised…

At the age of six I made the most important decision of my life: I joined Woodcraft Folk. It’s impossible to overstate the impact that growing…

The tables show the potential target jobs for IT workers. One sheet, which seemingly includes daily updates, lists job descriptions (“need a new react and web3…