Let them eat chips
If you wait long enough, everything you ever liked will be gentrified. Over the years I’ve watched the childhood meals...
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Making history
Okay, confession: LGBTQ+ History Month used to make me feel a bit guilty. It reminded me of gaps in my...
Acting is just acting – until it isn’t
There’s a reason the subject of casting gay roles rears its ugly head every few years. Prominent LGBTQ dramas are...
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...
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...
Convenience store hero
When I was 17, I got a job in a supermarket. I often say it was my favourite or second-favourite...
I went looking for something
I went looking for something. Perhaps that was a mistake. On top of my wardrobe there are three white boxes,...
Try not to touch your own face while you read this
Isn’t it always the way that as soon as we’re told we shouldn’t do something, we want to do it all the more? How inevitable of us. How pathetic, and predictable. But we are who we are. As we watch the beginnings of a Covid-19 pandemic play out – like the first five minutes in a disaster movie, pretty sure Cillian Murphy will be wandering the streets in a surgical gown soon enough – we have been told, among other things, that we shouldn’t be touching our own faces. When...
