Life Pushed Aside

Clair Wills: The Last Asylums, 18 November 2021

... of her sister; and finally she has some sessions of Freudian psychotherapy with the wise Dr Bell (played by Jean Anderson). There was a real female Freudian analyst working at Netherne at the time, whose name was Dr Yates. Her film alter ego helps Jane diagnose the cause of her breakdown as an inadequate childhood relationship with her mother, which she ...

The End of British Farming

Andrew O’Hagan: British farming, 22 March 2001

... get a sudden rush of the way things used to be. Local records tell of how, in the 18th century, a bell would ring in Bideford market at 1 p.m., calling the local people to buy wheat. Traders were not allowed to buy until after 2, to prevent dealers from overcharging the poor. The New Market, which opened in September 1960, sold 2317 animals on its first day ...

The Satoshi Affair

Andrew O’Hagan, 30 June 2016

... beside a whiteboard covered in writing. The opposite wall was stencilled with a quote from Henry Ford: ‘Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.’ Pedersen told me he had been brought over to direct a group preparing an initial batch of 32 patent applications, to be completed by April. (This was in January.) Beyond that there ...