I have been staying in a hotel for the past 3 weeks as I can’t drive, bath or walk. Luckily I can eat and go to the loo alone. Anyway as my room service arrived the oddest realisation hit me: waiters are almost always men and cleaning ladies almost always.. well ladies. When the waiter [...]

As the doctor politely asked me to climb onto the operating table where in a few moments people I had never met before would be slicing into my body, it struck me that our reality is a strange one indeed. Our entire existence is based on a trust that we do not examine to closely [...]