Life for the postwar baby boomers has been full of opportunity and change. But the fight for freedom and a better world continuesIn 1942, aged 18, my mother was running for her life with her father, mother and siblings, heading for an air-raid shelter as bombs pulverised Portsmouth, turning the...

I spent my 30s angry, confused and depressed – until my wife suggested I try listening to my breathIn my 20s, my career escalated pretty quickly. I started out in London as a reporter on a magazine writing about design. Before I knew it, I was living in Manhattan, working...