Life tough today? Compare it with the Industrial Revolution
Being constantly overworked and tired may seem like a modern condition, but actually you might be suffering from a 19th-century malaise.
Doctors in the Victorian times diagnosed patients with ‘Neurasthenia’, which bears all the hallmarks of our hyper-connected age.
According to a new book, patients with the condition suffered from depression, a ‘lack of ambition’, insomnia and headaches.
Ha. Lack of ambition, as a medical condition. Does that mean that half the people on the dole are depressed? Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
To read Cam’s previous articles click on his name in blue.