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?…

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…

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…

“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…