This post is a placeholder for anyone interested in buying my lovely maisonette in Scotland. This was my first house I bought in 2015 when I was 22 and lived in Aberdeen, it cost me £90k and I paid a 10% deposit. Due to forces in Aberdeen’s oil industry, the property market went south quite…

On a mushroom trip last weekend I realised that TK Maxx is the graveyard of capitalism. TK Maxx is is a selection of failed attempts to make a successful product. Everything in TK Maxx is flawed by definition, if it wasn’t flawed it wouldn’t be available in TK Maxx. You might see a nice Ben…

One day when I was about 17 I noticed my all-powerful Dad not really understanding his iPhone home screen. I realised then clearly that as I get older, technology will also leave me behind. So far it hasn’t, I think. But I do think something else going on – technology is purposefully choosing to be…

I saw a meme on facebook or twitter, I can’t find it now. It said something like: “In the 90s, a visit to the shop for ice-cream would be considered a good day out” This gave me a mini hit of nostalgia. I remembered being 9 years old and hanging around my Nana Maughan’s house…

Last night I was scraping the YouTube Jools Holland / Live Lounge barrel and came across something so delicious: a live video of Damon Albarn singing my favorite Blur song The Universal back in 1995. Watching it now, you can feel this strange, beautiful tension: the song is both triumphalist and cynical at the same…

A lot of people pushed and pulled my personality over the years. Especially my Dad and boss’s at work. In the public realm, the following 3 guys left a huge impression: Derren Brown Showed me that I could be gay and whatever else I wanted to be at the same time. When I found out…

The best definition of camp I’ve heard is: “Regarding the serious things as trivial and the trivial things as deadly serious.” I promise this is a compliment: I find the Philippines so un-serious in the most endearing of ways. In fact I feel it to be un-serious in the exact way I feel I am.…

‘You’re losing all your highs and lows, ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away?’ I’ve found that even if I click fantastically well with a new person – its hard to grow close to them at the age of 32. I can see people that, had we met in school we probably would be…

When I first moved here 6 years ago I spent a lot of time walking the streets of Utrecht. Every time I passed this particular promotional banner it would make me feel a weird, new emotion that I’d never felt in the UK… It loudly offers two pairs of jeans for the price of €149.95.…

Recently the news broke that a record 9.2 million British working age adults don’t have a job and don’t want one. 700k more than in 2019. I feel like I kind of get it. Covid was a once in a lifetime emergency stop on everything. With the slamming of those brakes many shifts happened in…

I recently got into Robert Sapolsky lectures on YouTube, after hearing him on The Rest is Politics. The guy has a very lucid way of explaining everything, and a style of speaking that holds my attention for hours. One thing that got me thinking in this lecture on language is: “Language comes from peers –…