PinnedWhat’s a girl got to do to get heard?Frankly, I’d be more interesting to the world if I was dead. Alive, it seems that I am of no interest to anyone, but if I went to join the…Mar 16, 20211Mar 16, 20211
PinnedWhat to watch in lockdown: real-life editionThe three of you who HAVE read War and Peace, or caught up on all those Best Foreign Film Oscar-winners in lockdown can bugger off now. I…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Taxing the childless, and other ways to kick us when we’re downWhen the thing which irritates me most about a comment piece is that it praises Boris Johnson for the amount of children he’s fathered, it…Jul 4, 20221Jul 4, 20221
“Hardworking families”Sir Keir Starmer gave his first speech of 2021 today, asking the government to put “families first”. Yesterday, he wrote for the Sunday…Jan 11, 20211Jan 11, 20211
Natalie RIPRead this today. It shook me. A 45-year-old single, childless woman, Natalie Langham, took her own life in March, because her life had…Oct 30, 20202Oct 30, 20202
Another caterwauling competitionToday, the BBC announced a new gameshow. “TV presenter and comedian Paddy McGuinness will soon be taking the reins of the brand-new…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Age against the machine“Why the over 50’s have to get bloody angry so we can help the kids in the long runOct 1, 2020Oct 1, 2020
Sebastian Horsley: Ten years onI’m not going to write anything new on the 10th anniversary of his death, just republish a piece I wrote on my Urban Woo blog on the day…Jun 17, 2020Jun 17, 2020
Post-Corona arts will have to go beyond the broadsheetsAt least the virus that could crush the arts in Britain has the alliterative sense to start with a ‘c’, meaning that I can write the…May 22, 2020May 22, 2020
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”Honoré de BalzacMay 5, 20202May 5, 20202
