This 1999 David Bowie interview where he predicts the internet is so cool, you’ve probably seen it before. One thing Bowie says in it is that if he had been born at a different time, he might not have been a musician, he only went into music because that was where the energy was in…

This one was in my drafts and I just wanted to put it out there… When you’re in the market for a new car – every walk down a street becomes a showroom, you start to notice makes and models of car, you have a sense of what they’re worth and what they do. Your…

I bought a 2 bedroom flat in Aberdeenshire in March 2015. It was exciting, I was 22 and I thought I was very cool to own my own home. It was at the peak of Aberdeen’s economic boom, a sellers market where every property would be on the market for 4 days, viewings would be…

Here’s my genuine list of New Years’ Resolutions for this year. I also have a couple of boring practical goals which include ‘build a bookshelf in the living room’ and ‘renovate the carpet on the staircase’.

Maybe ‘who am I’ is not a helpful question. The answer to the question who am I is always something which exists as a relationship to others. Who am I? A brother (to a sister), a son (to parents), a train driver (to a train), a doctor (to patients)… The true question beneath ‘who am…

This post is a placeholder for anyone interested in buying my lovely maisonette in Scotland. This was my first house I bought in 2015 when I was 22 and lived in Aberdeen, it cost me £90k and I paid a 10% deposit. Due to forces in Aberdeen’s oil industry, the property market went south quite…

On a mushroom trip last weekend I realised that TK Maxx is the graveyard of capitalism. TK Maxx is is a selection of failed attempts to make a successful product. Everything in TK Maxx is flawed by definition, if it wasn’t flawed it wouldn’t be available in TK Maxx. You might see a nice Ben…

One day when I was about 17 I noticed my all-powerful Dad not really understanding his iPhone home screen. I realised then clearly that as I get older, technology will also leave me behind. So far it hasn’t, I think. But I do think something else going on – technology is purposefully choosing to be…

I saw a meme on facebook or twitter, I can’t find it now. It said something like: “In the 90s, a visit to the shop for ice-cream would be considered a good day out” This gave me a mini hit of nostalgia. I remembered being 9 years old and hanging around my Nana Maughan’s house…

Last night I was scraping the YouTube Jools Holland / Live Lounge barrel and came across something so delicious: a live video of Damon Albarn singing my favorite Blur song The Universal back in 1995. Watching it now, you can feel this strange, beautiful tension: the song is both triumphalist and cynical at the same…

A lot of people pushed and pulled my personality over the years. Especially my Dad and boss’s at work. In the public realm, the following 3 guys left a huge impression: Derren Brown Showed me that I could be gay and whatever else I wanted to be at the same time. When I found out…

The best definition of camp I’ve heard is: “Regarding the serious things as trivial and the trivial things as deadly serious.” I promise this is a compliment: I find the Philippines so un-serious in the most endearing of ways. In fact I feel it to be un-serious in the exact way I feel I am.…