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Obesity, battered sausage and me

This article titled “Obesity, battered sausage and me” was written by Hopi Sen, for The Guardian on Friday 9th December 2011 23.01 UTC I can pinpoint exactly when I realised I was fat. Two years after leaving, I visited my old sixth-form college and found myself aimlessly wandering old haunts in the manner of all who discover a place that had been theirs is now strangely alien. As I explored I suddenly found myself face to face with the college nurse: not a woman I’d known...Read More

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This column will change your life: age and creativity

This article titled “This column will change your life: age and creativity” was written by Oliver Burkeman, for The Guardian on Friday 25th November 2011 22.59 UTC Excellent news for those of us who don’t have vastly many years to go before we’re 40: there is still a chance of winning a Nobel prize in science! According to a new analysis of 525 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine, under-40s no longer predominate, and the average age at which scientists...Read More

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This column will change your life: small victories

This article titled “This column will change your life: small victories” was written by Oliver Burkeman, for The Guardian on Friday 9th September 2011 22.00 UTC Almost 30 years ago, the organisational theorist Karl Weick made an observation that campaigners on everything fromglobal warming to homelessness have been ignoring ever since. Sometimes, he pointed out, convincing the world that you’re fighting a Very Serious Problem actually makes it harder to solve. In a paper...Read More

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Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities

This article titled “Kim Noble: The woman with 100 personalities” was written by Amanda Mitchison, for The Guardian on Friday 30th September 2011 22.00 UTC The painter Kim Noble is a niblet-sized woman with long, auburn hair and startlingly blue eyes. She lives in a small terrace house in south London with her 14-year-old daughter Aimee, two dogs and more than 100 separate personalities. Kim, 50, has dissociative identity disorder (DID). She is, in effect, scores of different people...Read More

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This column will change your life: Poverty and willpower

This article titled “This column will change your life: Poverty and willpower” was written by Oliver Burkeman, for The Guardian on Friday 22nd July 2011 21.59 UTC The stereotypical rightwing commentator’s perspective on poverty is that it’s down to a failure of will: put your mind to it, harden your resolve – get on your bike, as Norman Tebbit never quite said – and you’ll swiftly improve your lot. Unsurprisingly, self-help gurus tend to endorse that view....Read More