When the Nigerian poet Orikinla Osinachi wrote the "Veiled Assassin", he never knew that his fictional story was actually similar to how the male suspect in the major anti-terrorist investigation in London also escaped capture disguising himself as a Muslim woman dressed in a burqa. Was is it a coincidence or a prophetic foresight?

Each year, I promise myself I'm going to overcome my anxieties about Christmas, but then, like a steam roller, the dread flattens me. First, there are so many pressing Christmas obligations: cards to write, presents to wrap, cookies to bake and house to clean, tra la la!