In September 2001, Victoria Beckham released her album. Reaction to this and the WTC disaster was a prolific circulation of “Man with the Wallet” stories. There were variations on the following theme.

A friend of a friend at a busy railway station in London sees a man in front of her drop his wallet. She picks [...]

When I was about nine, I had to write a composition in English class. I looked at the title: ‘My Garden’ and thought about my garden at home. It was a raised bed roughly a foot wide and about six feet long at the front of the house. The rest of the garden was a [...]