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You can’t avoid it now (NB: this article was written in the summer of 2016 for a book published by Somesuch Stories) 2016: the year of bad news, the year we lost the legends that moved us and inspired us. Prince, Bowie, Ali, Harambe: all gone now. Then there’s the…

Here, in one delightful place, with links, on the day Article 50 is triggered, are a handful of articles I wrote last summer (and a little after) on the whole thing: Before the vote, on why Cameron’s government was trying to fast-track a trade deal so that parliament couldn’t vote…

The Evening Standard was founded in 1827. Now it’s called the London Evening Standard (LOVE that American naming model), owned by Russian oligarch Evgeny Lebedev and thrust into the supine paws of beaten down tube frequenters like you and me. …

Economic and societal circumstances make coming of age more and more difficult In Western society today there is no denying that, following the economic crash of 2008 and its continued after-effects — including, more broadly, the increasingly obvious failure of the neo-liberal project to do anything other than enrich a…

And on why I’m voting Remain Tomorrow, I will vote for Britain to remain in the European Union. This is not meant to sound like some big declaration, I’m not the kind of writer who usually lays out my stall in this way and I know that my opinion is…

In October 2013, Prince released a video for his song, “Breakfast Can Wait”, featuring a female Prince impersonator, leather-clad dancers and a whole lot of sexy breakfast food. I wrote a commentary to the video in the voice of Prince, which was published by Noisey, VICE’s music site. After about…

In the Cambrian Mountains eating ice cream, moving sheep and talking about life with Erwyd Howells, a 67-year old freelance shepherd This article originally appeared in the summer 2015 issue of The Happy Reader — https://www.thehappyreader.com/. It is re-published with their permission. Erwyd Howells is a shepherd. It is one…

Jesse Eisenberg, who has watched and understood all the films of Luis Buñuel, gives one of the great screen performances of our time in his latest picture, The Cleverest Man. Eisenberg, whose rare intelligence means that he feels no insecurity about being an actor, was the only choice to play…