By Massimo Lorusso The dramatic part of my story can be told in one sentence: at seventeen, a dive into the sea in Rimini changed my body permanently. The harder part to explain is everything that came after. For nearly four decades, I have needed help with ordinary physical tasks.
By Nicky Wake When my husband Andy died in 2020, I genuinely thought the joyful part of my life was ok. By that point, we’d already spent three years living through the aftermath of the catastrophic heart attack and brain injury he suffered in 2017. One of my most haunting
By Matthew Haywood Since winning Survivor UK in 2023, I’ve tried to use that platform to build my TikTok and try to bring a bit of joy to people online. Most of my videos are usually about me getting outdoors, messing about or trying out some crazy challenges. I try
By Roxana Tascu For most of my life, I genuinely believed I was somehow both high achieving and failing at the same time. From the outside, people often saw somebody driven, intelligent and ambitious, but inside I constantly felt as though I was barely holding everything together. As a child
By Sam Naughton When my baby died at ten weeks pregnant, my entire world had shattered in the space of a few seconds. My husband Ben and I had already named our baby Willow and we had already started imagining the life we thought we were going to have with
Photo & words by Erica Crompton In Stratford’s heart, where a river glides, A rainbow-winged world is waiting inside. A place where colours rise like choir or prayer, A verdant paradise holds every kind of care. Butterflies drift close as if they know How fragile days can feel, how spirits
By Erica Crompton Luxembourg is steadily developing a network of comfort hiking trails as part of its Tourism without Barriers campaign, with accessible routes around places such as Bissen and Remich. I travelled with my fiancé, Paul, who uses a wheelchair full time, to see how these trails work in
YouTube is one of the most influential platforms in modern media, but its origin story is surprisingly simple: a small team wanted an easier way to share video online. In the early 2000s, uploading and sending video files was slow, formats were inconsistent, and most websites weren’t built for smooth playback.
Star Zahra I have lived several different lives within the span of one. In Nigeria, class is not a static label; it is a pendulum, and I have swung across its entire arc. When I was born, my father, a young man in his twenties already established at the Nigerian
