Below is a transcript of the eulogy I gave at my dad’s funeral on 30th November 2015. The world isn’t exactly awash with great male role models, but you could do a lot worse than my dad.  Hello everyone, and thank you all for coming, some of you a very long way. Dad always said he […]

I’ve made some pretty big – some might go so far as to say unwise – confessions on this blog. But this one probably trumps them all, because it’s not about any one thing that I’ve done; it’s about who I am. The jury’s still out on whether the benefits of honesty have outweighed the costs. […]

Apologies for the cross-promotion, but if you liked this site, you might be interested in my new project – a highly irregular (but very thoroughly researched) podcast about the shitter things in life. It’s called Rainbows and Lollipops, and for the moment it’s only available on Mixcloud, but if and when I’ve got a critical mass, I hope to […]

Hello, lovely readers. This isn’t a proper post, as I am, after several promises to the effect, winding the blog down. Not because I’ve given up - more because I’ve run out of stories to tell, and because the new posts were taking ages to research and write, and weren’t exactly generating floods of offers of work. I’ll leave […]

“When we are understood and responded to, we feel more whole within ourselves and the world.” Luise Eichenbaum & Susie Orbach, What Do Women Want? “Of course you don’t like her. You have a problem with strong women.” Such was one of the more bruising comments delivered by a lovely but frank friend during a […]

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” Katharine Hepburn We’re disintegrating. Across the western world, the bonds between men and women are weakening. The age of first marriage in the UK is rising precipitously, from 24.9 for men and […]