The other day I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It isn’t a fatal prognosis, but it sure as hell can make living a bit of a bugger. There will be plenty of readers who know what I’m talking about from personal experience: according to my fellow Parkinson’s incubator, the comedy writer Paul Mayhew-Archer, two people in the UK are diagnosed with the disease every hour of the day. Which, as he points out, means that “some people get told at three o’clock in the morning”. And it isn’t an immediate death sentence — Paul, who might be familiar to you as the co-creator of The Vicar of Dibley, was diagnosed

Source: The Times May 22, 2021 11:07 UTC