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You watch the television, set between two rain-swept windows, in a spacious yet cosy sitting room from which you also earn your living marking essays in a virtual classroom; you never leave it, you eat, read, can write, can afford to do nothing else; no n…

I was born on 24 April at three o’clock in the afternoon, in Madrid, Spain, at Hospital Nuestra Señora del Rosario, where one of the nuns donated blood compatible with my rare blood group — A negative — to save my life.

(2 December 2025) It is not enough for a football kit to look right on its own: we have to see how it looks on the ten players — moving — on the pitch.

Imagine a Christ whose bones had been broken, who had outlived the Cross.

There are good books in the flat where I live.

The anxiety is enormous.

We need to speak either way.

Pride can damn you, but it can also save your soul.

‘Hello.’

Some human beings have an ingrained thirst for universal justice, order, harmony and rationality, which means that when we observe that, time and again, the same bad outcome occurs whether we do things right or wrong, we tend to do them wrong — in order t…