COLUMN | Very Superstitious
People talk about spirituality and faith and I’m always left puzzled. Talk to me about organised religion and my eyes glaze over as I reach for my Richard Dawkins books. […]
COLUMN | A Message From The Bunker
As an atheist, vegetarian, teetotal, chocolate hating, childless man with very little family and a job which requires me to work over Christmas often, I don’t really see a lot […]
COLUMN | The Church of the poisoned mind
As a teenager I dallied with the idea of religion. That was until I realised that I was actually what religion often calls an inveterate sinner and decided to give […]
COLUMN | Frightful
I tend to have a slightly over-active imagination. Maybe the diet of Hitchcock films and cheap thrillers that I devoured during my youth are to blame. I encountered three situations […]
COLUMN | Testing Times
It’s National HIV testing week: a campaign that I strongly believe in. As a naïve 17 year, I met, and quite quickly moved in with, a much older man. It […]
COLUMN | Bully Boy
Secondary school was a pretty grim time for me. In spite of being bright, having lots of friends and attending a pretty good school, it was a hideous time in […]
COLUMN | Tis The Season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not all that Christmas nonsense that’s looming, but autumn. I totally love autumn. It’s arrived with a bang in London, heralded […]
COLUMN | Some people are gay
I’m never normally speechless but the other day a work colleague rendered me thus. She happened to mention the Stonewall “Some People Are Gay Get Over It” bus campaign that […]
COLUMN | Some Days
There are days when I really hate those people who shout into mid air whilst sitting on the train. In my youth you knew where you were with people who […]
COLUMN | Fake Bake
I’ve developed a new addiction. Tuesday nights see me glued to people making cakes on BBC2. I know it’s ridiculous and that The Great British Bake Off has been going […]
COLUMN | Painless Pleasure
Yesterday I spent time looking at instruments of torture and some really gruesome looking antique sex toys. I was out strolling round London with my partner and we’d done the […]