Going nolo: kombucha and wine
I woke up on the morning of the 2016 US election and thought it was time for a change. Little...
Forget cathedrals
I’m lucky to have not been so personally, physically oppressed enough by churches that I can’t still find them beautiful. I...
Two! More! Novels!
I'm very excited and delighted and generally in a good mood to let you know that there will be two...
Chris and Tania
The samey sameness of 2020 lumbers on, humans left catatonic and unshockable as what would once have been life-changing stuff...
Murderers are not celebrities
An infamous Yorkshireman died recently. Friday the 13th, how fitting. You know his name, so I don’t need to say...
Lizzi and Junior
It's a grey day. Luckily there have been a few rainbow sparkles and unicorn sightings since we last saw each...
Freddy and Rufus
Here we are, back in lockdown. We should at least make hay while the sun shines, by which I mean,...
Ruby and Alex
Imagine being 24, decent-looking, with your future lying ahead of you, exciting and mysterious and certain to contain lots of...
Tony and Kieran
I had planned to be somewhere else today: offline. But just as the bat signal compels Bruce Wayne to slip...
Convenience store hero
When I was 17, I got a job in a supermarket. I often say it was my favourite or second-favourite...
































