Category: 5. Entertainment

A charity which provides shoes to children is back in operation following a setback when a city retailer closed down.

The Coventry Children’s Boot Fund has been going since 1983, but its service was put under threat with the closure of the…

A patient says he has “lost total faith” in the NHS after taking prescribed medication he did not need for a year – and still does not know what is wrong with him.

Brett Durant, 50, from King’s Lynn, Norfolk, was told his stomach pain was caused…

The Black Swan

10pm, BBC Four
“A storm is brewing in Amira’s office …” This remarkable Danish documentary series by film-maker Mads Brügger (above) follows the work of steely corporate lawyer Amira Smajic and her dealings with gangs. In…

The key to understanding a dream is being open to the feelings that come up as you describe its scenes and happenings. Maybe the details that jump out are coming from a collective unconscious, but they are definitely coming from a subconscious…

The Professionals is a series of articles in which three people from one field share their views of Ireland today. Keep an eye out for other articles: the psychologists, the teachers, the tech workers.

The panel

• Rebecca O’Flanagan, TV and film…

There’s a TV screen with my mom’s face on it. It’s hanging in the courthouse in Tralee, behind the coroner for Co Kerry and a French doctor, and she’s crying. She’s also holding up her phone so my late uncle’s widow can hear what’s…

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

It’s been half a century since Saul Steinberg distilled the Manhattanite’s solipsistic view of the world in his New…