Leyla Sanai

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Why MAFS is good for old and young alike. MAFS is not a trendy way of talking about arithmetic, it’s the acronym for the hit reality programme Married at First Sight, which has now been franchised to many countries around the world. For those who haven’t watched it, it’s easy to assume it’s yet another reality programme where we watch people behaving badly on camera. But the beauty of it - and the reason it could almost count as relationship education - is that it isn’t standard voyeurism.

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Leyla Sanai

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal The Bridge Street Press, pp.432, 25 When the actress Celia Imrie was 14, she was admitted to an NHS hospital where she was given medication intended for delusional, hallucinating, agitated schizophrenics. Though not diabetic, she was regularly injected with insulin, which lowered her blood sugar so that she became shaky, anxious, ravenously hungry and so confused she couldn’t recognise her own family.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Leyla Sanai

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments When the actress Celia Imrie was 14, she was admitted to an NHS hospital where she was given medication intended for delusional, hallucinating, agitated schizophrenics. Though not diabetic, she was regularly injected with insulin, which lowered her blood sugar so that she became shaky, anxious, ravenously hungry and so confused she couldn’t recognise her own family. Yet she was one of the luckier ones. Other patients...

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From Rock Star to KillerLeyla’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Bertrand Cantat had it all. Boyish good looks, impish smile, ambition, drive, and talent. When the band he sang in, Noir Desir, became France’s most successful (more so than Daftpunk? Shame on vous, mes amis), his soaring trajectory seemed mapped out for life.

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Miscarriages of justice, and the righteous anger and indignation felt by the victims, may not make easy viewing, but it’s necessary to avail oneself of them to understand the attitudes of police and law courts at that time, and to ensure that such episodes don’t happen again. Bostonian Sean Ellis was a teenager when his two cousins were murdered. He was absolutely bereft - one of them had been his closest confidante.