Category: General

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.…

‘You’re losing all your highs and lows, ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?’ I’ve found that even if I click fantastically well with a new person – its hard to grow close to them at the age of 32. I can see people that, had we met in school we probably would be…

When I first moved here 6 years ago I spent a lot of time walking the streets of Utrecht. Every time I passed this particular promotional banner it would make me feel a weird, new emotion that I’d never felt in the UK… It loudly offers two pairs of jeans for the price of €149.95.…

Recently the news broke that a record 9.2 million British working age adults don’t have a job and don’t want one. 700k more than in 2019. I feel like I kind of get it. Covid was a once in a lifetime emergency stop on everything. With the slamming of those brakes many shifts happened in…

I recently got into Robert Sapolsky lectures on YouTube, after hearing him on The Rest is Politics. The guy has a very lucid way of explaining everything, and a style of speaking that holds my attention for hours. One thing that got me thinking in this lecture on language is: “Language comes from peers –…

Isn’t it great when you learn a new word and realise you’ve been looking for it for years. Now that its January (new year new me) I started listening to the ‘Atomic Habits’ audiobook. I bought it when my boss recommended it in 2021 and its taken me a while to bring myself to listen…

In 2011, Jessie J waited patiently for Coconut Man, Moonhead and Pea to be ready before she bravely imparted some wisdom onto the world. Money is brilliant and fascinating. Two years after Price Tag came out I remember standing mesmerised in the bathroom, opening the Barclays mobile banking app and seeing my current account balance…

I don’t really think of myself as having anxiety. I’ve never had medication for it and I’m aware a lot of people do – so I figure I can’t be that bad. However, a massive part of my life consists of hanging around overthinking about the 1 thing on my mind – and it’s always…