Appetite For Distraction

It is absolutely exhausting trying to get that supposedly perfect eight hours of sleep, and all the various Fitbits, meditation apps and Instagram sleep evangelists aren’t making it any easier

Doomsday warnings about the danger of a lack of sleep are causing us sleepless nights

This week, headlines told me that my inability to get a decent eight hours sleep is causing me to slowly kill myself. A “form of slow euthanasia”, apparently. A nutritionist I follow on Instagram is peddling the same line; if you’re not getting at least a “good” seven hours, you’re wasting your time. You may as well just smoke 40 fags a day, put salt on your cornflakes and take up base jumping, ...