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IMPERIAL GOTHIC VII. ⸻   “From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of

On Saturday, many will sit down to watch the Grand National – the biggest horse race in the world – at Aintree in Liverpool.

Geoffrey Beatties life has taken him on an astonishing trajectory from an impoverished childhood in Protestant working-class Belfast to a career as a world-renowned psychologist and TV celebrity. But that journey has brought inevitable stresses and soul-searching as the highly intelligent boy who pored over his schoolbooks in a damp, dilapidated terraced house with an outside toilet transformed himself into the urbane, confident academic enjoying the spoils of material success in England. That...