What’s that low hum dear?
When you reach your mid 50s your list of things you don’t want to do gets longer. Either because you’ve done it a million times already or you figure your time is limited so you chose to only do what…
BJ Tunstall
Balancing human rights and victim rights
There is little we can do to prevent someone with a chronic mental health condition killing people. The slaughter of three little girls at a dance class in Southport in northern England. The random slaying of three people on the…
Tanned and tariffic
Capitalism is a powerful force but it’s blind followers are vulnerable to subjugation because at the heart of capitalism is the need to assert individualism and what goes with this is a slowness to mobilise. Tariffs on countries to pressure…
Knickers
It’s still the quickest way to the top, in 3 easy steps – demonise minorities, amplify their threat and convince the mainstream they are losing grip on power. What happens when Donald Trump realises the extent of America’s powers? When…
A Trumuskian world
“I was always under the impression the world is complicated. But not a Trumuskian world. It’s simple, beautiful and orange” I was so wrong about Trump. I thought he was going to do stuff but instead he just purses his…
Guardian Soulmates
Even writing “Yahoo” ages me. I was convinced, like everyone else who signed up to Guardian Soulmates in 2004 that I was diving into a pool of sexy lefties with angular jaws and splash! a man in red Speedos with…
Crazy
“Robert was a hedonist. He was a hedonist not because he was a fag but because he was a hedonist. The best kind” A crazy person said once that “everyone’s life is a form of psychosis in slow motion and…
Misery upon grim
The British don’t expect to be happy. On this small boot-shaped island miserableness is patriotic. The British are proudly miserable. In the depths of winter misery is a crackling fire in the pit of one’s gut. It’s the only way…
Look
“You deserve to be beautiful and you deserve to be told over and over and over again” I’m in talks with an app developer about creating a new app that cuts out the bullshit. It will be called LOOK. Look…
Pho lumberjacks
“Coriander is also notorious for getting stuck in foreskins and bras” When the Pho Cafe (Vietnamese street food) opened back in 2005 it blossomed flavour and freshness. Now their soups taste like a public pool after a school swimming carnival.…