I would like a bit of me - that’s how I put my back out!

Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

I would like a bit of me - that’s how I put my back out!

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.