“At last!” you may be thinking, “the old hack’s finally got some self-awareness.” But no, I want to examine a more positive definition of the word [...]
Imagine you knew without any doubt that the world was going to end… but not just yet. Not imminently. Well, imminently in relation to the lifetime of the planet but not imminently in a [...]
There are very few good adverts these days, since the internet democratised self-promotion. Everything’s so serious. Where are the Smash aliens? Where are Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins? [...]
There are certain words, the use (or overuse) of which I’m finding increasingly unacceptable – ‘unacceptable’ being a prime example. A bruised banana from the market stall is [...]
I received a lovely message from my friend Paul this week, asking if I could expand on the theories I expounded in last week’s essay on Milk. He phrased it more succinctly than that. He [...]
