Stewart Lee: the slow death of the Edinburgh Fringe

Bristo Square: has a corporate behemoth strangled the performers' utopia? Photograph: Alamy I remember my first experience of the Edinburgh Fringe through a nostalgic haze. The Fringe was the postwar…
PUBLISHED: July 30, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1784 words)

10 things not to say to someone when they're ill

'People really did feel the need to reassure me that my hideousness was plain to see.' Photograph: Illustration: David McCoy for the Guardian What no one ever tells you about serious illness is that…
PUBLISHED: April 18, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2101 words)
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