For those new to it, From the Departure Lounge is a series of short pieces I write between flights. My work as a barrister takes me to The Hague, the Balkans, the Gulf, Africa and beyond, usually by aeroplane, and I am frightened of flying.

These pieces are about that life: the travel, the work, and the small indignities in between. They are mostly jokes, and occasionally they are not.