Why we never win the lottery

by Angus Shaw · Published 3 April 2015 · Updated 3 April 2015

More chance of seeing Elvis in the local supermarket, more chance of getting shot dead in a random drive-by.

More chance of stumbling across an unpublished Ernest Hemingway manuscript, an undiscovered Picasso…

Lament for a tortured friend

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It's like popcorn. Hot it up, it gloriously shows itself and then it's gone before the end of the movie....

May you live in interesting times! This started out as a...