So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank paper. As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a vigil ...

College writing sometimes feels like your brain has way too many tabs open, and they’re all playing different, slightly frantic music. One minute you’re managing, the next you’re that academic octopus ...

I sit by an aeroplane window, surrounded by stacks of handwritten transcripts, each written in its distinctive style - loopy, scrawled, precise. Eight hours stretch ahead, free from the distractions ...