Love Happens Here
Controversial Pride Opinion Status I'm a proud Black Gay man. That's not the controversial part, stay with me... I was raised in a...
2016 IS Killing People
An open letter in response to this article which seems to be circulating like a particularly antisocial virus. Please, enough already...
My Superhero, Captain Doofus
I was just chatting to my good friend, Paul Darling online. Darling by name, Darling by nature we were together marshalling our...
Everybody Knows...
In the year Britain voted for Brexit and the day after Trump won the election, Leonard Cohen bailed out on us. I spewed out this:...
Time To Fight
This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room...
PUSSY VOTER
Note: the week before Trump won the election, Susan Sarandon and Vivienne Westwood were publicly encouraging people to vote third party...
Queer - Own the Word...?
Intro: I once happened to mention to a millennial friend that I tended to avoid arts circles and discussion groups with the word...
Fever Major
Intro: An unapologetic paen to self-pity, this was written when I was lying in bed with a fever in Sitges, Spain whilst all of my...
Paper beats Rock
Intro: This was written on our first year anniversary – which we celebrated in Sitges. 9 years prior to that, I had persuaded Jason to...
A moment of clarity in the eye of the storm
Note: A sequel to the piece I wrote the day before A Sermon at the Funeral of Hope. Written 5 days before the Brexit vote when there...