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Private schools
Publication: The Guardian
This week, my godchild Eleanor finishes her three years pre-prep at St Paul's Cathedral School, ready to start at City of London School for Girls in September.
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Opera odyssey
Publication: The Guardian
There are two kinds of transcendent experience; sex with someone you love, and a night at the opera.
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Gym
Publication: The Guardian
Twice a year the British confess their sins of greed and sloth and vow to mend their ways. The first time is straight after Christmas, when most of us look like the turkeys we've eaten. The second time is about now, when the holiday season makes men flex their pecs, only to discover they don't have any, and we girls dust down the bikini, to find that it only fits one boob and half a bottom.
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Industry Standard
Publication: Other Articles
In 1439 Johann Gutenberg took on an apprentice to help him produce a book on his new printing press. Twenty copies of Ovid's Metamorphosis were carefully run off and left to dry before being bound in vellum. The apprentice was a forger by trade, and Gutenberg had employed him for his quick mind and light hands. As the apprentice painstakingly changed the type page by page, he asked Gutenberg how anyone would be able to tell which of the Ovids was the original. Gutenberg was baffled. He tried to explain that the books were identical - that any number of them could be produced, all original and all copies. His apprentice grew heated. Did Gutenberg take him for a fool? There was always an original, and afterwards copies, and no doubt forgeries, that was how the market worked.
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