Crossing a lineLast year, I took on a temporary lecturing position with a college. It was a really exciting opportunity to work with a group of people who…Feb 7, 2023Feb 7, 2023
Becoming Who We Want To BeIn counselling terms, when the things that we do don’t match up with the type of person we say we want to be, we are “incongruent”.May 9, 2021May 9, 2021
What We Do And Don’t SayThere are some issues that I feel an urge to write about then decide not to. Usually it’s because I’ve seen plenty of opinion pieces that…May 24, 2020May 24, 2020
The day I shat myself.A year ago today, on the 19th of May 2019, I shat myself on the street, in broad daylight.May 19, 2020May 19, 2020
The Echo Chamber and EllenEllen DeGeneres was never meant to be an American institution. But despite working in an industry and country that was steeped in…Oct 9, 2019Oct 9, 2019
“To Honor the Dead, to Warn the Living”I wrote this after visiting the site of Dachau concentration camp. It was the first of the Nazi concentration camps and was opened in 1933…Jul 23, 2019Jul 23, 2019
It took me too long.When the story came out that two women had been violently attacked on a London bus after refusing to kiss for the entertainment of others…Jun 8, 2019Jun 8, 2019
Brexit, whatever the cost, and Prime Minister Johnson is a democratic deficit I can’t tolerate any…We will never know what kind of Prime Minister Theresa May was. Because whatever she was doing for the time she was in power, it wasn’t…May 24, 20192May 24, 20192
I couldn’t find the joy in Eurovision this year.Since I turned thirty, I’ve spent every year at Eurovision. People enjoy hearing this. I don’t know exactly why, I think they respect the…May 18, 2019May 18, 2019
I want to foster. But there’s something in the way.I want to foster children. So much so that after five and a half years, it happened. I committed the ultimate faux pas of working in…May 16, 2019May 16, 2019