I remember in my 20s, kissing beautiful strangers and thinking ‘please be dumb’. You’ve heard of doom scrolling (looking at traumatic content obsessively) but what about the compulsion to scroll through content hating it, but finding yourself unable to stop?…
“Where’s my a thousand kisses?” he said “Like you gave the Spanish poet?” Urgently recalling the story I must have told carelessly over a pillow I said “Maybe I was simply showing him how to count in English?” “1,2,3 etcetera”…
And now look. At the end of a song about an abusive relationship, the singer Liza Minnelli whispers ‘no more bombs’ in a soft desperate voice. I whisper that same way now as I watch the war escalate in the…
Heaven forbid, don’t be new to London and miss that huge sign that says the left lane on the escalator is for people in a hurry. London is a cuntish town, unless you’re filthy rich or living in social housing. I see…
It’s true, you’re not as easily impressed after 50. Your appreciation is set at a lower frequency. When you reach your mid 50s, the list of things you don’t want to do gets longer. Because you’ve done it a million…
Our only achievement in the last 100 years is convincing more people that the brain is like a car… There is little we can do to prevent someone with a chronic mental health condition killing people. The slaughter of three…
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…
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…
“I was always under the impression the world is complicated. But not a Trumpian 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…
Hairdressers are always right. If you stare into someone’s scalp long enough you can see what their thinking. I was convinced, like everyone else who signed up to Guardian Soulmates in 2004 that I was diving into a pool of…