Tim minchin

I would give my younger self a cuddle and tell him it’s going to be OK. I had a very happy, normal childhood, but it’s a tough age, 16, isn’t it? You’re coming out of all that hormonal stuff and into

We’ve got a really close-knit family. My relationship with my parents has always been really good. Now I hold up my parents as models of how to raise my own children. My children are really young at t

A war surgeon’s struggles David Nott has spent ...

At 16 I’d been at boarding school in Wolverhampton for nine years, and my main preoccupation was just getting the fuck out. Boarding school is pretty boring. You’re there a long, long time. And boys a

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

So much went unspoken in her past – so much love never expressed