Hillary Clinton This article is more than 11 years oldHillary Clinton's doctors say blood clot is located between her brain and skullThis article is more than 11 years oldSecretary of state's medical team say she is making 'excellent progress' as blood thinners are dissolving the clot in her headDoctors treating the blood clot suffered by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, revealed on Monday that it is located in a vein between her brain and skull. Read More...
Original writingMrs Pike: A True StoryOnce upon a time - and this is more or less a true story - there was a lady called Mrs Pike.
Mrs Pike lived in a lovely new-brick bungalow in Lime Tree Gardens and had a dachshund called Gretchen, an H-reg Alfa Romeo and two lava lamps. Mrs Pike had always been keen on having The Latest Thing. When colour TVs came in, she put her order in straight away, and she always had the very newest model of sports car, never mind about her cataracts. Read More...
Book of the dayFictionReviewThe Jonathan Strange author returns with a mysterious tale that examines the nature of fantasy itself “The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite”: this is the reverent pronouncement of Piranesi, who believes he has occupied the house in question “since the world began”. Indeed, the house and the world, for Piranesi, are one and the same. Birds congregate in its cloud-wreathed upper halls and fearsome tides surge through its lower levels, but although Piranesi has journeyed widely – as far as “the Nine-Hundred-and-Sixtieth Hall to the West” – he has glimpsed nothing beyond it. Read More...
