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Category: Musings

Sarah Mary Chadwick’s “Full Mood” is a hauntingly beautiful love song for our time

“Full Mood” didn’t remind me of any one man I dated. It reminded me of many.

January 15, 2021
Ramblings on a snow day

Maybe its the weather. Maybe I didn’t get enough sleep. Maybe its the fact that we just lived through an attempted coup. Who can say?

January 8, 2021
Calendars and racist tchotchkes

That’s the thing about writing professionally no one tells you about: you spend a lot of time not actually writing but rather doing office work.

January 4, 2021
River Phoenix, my best actor

Joaquin Phoenix made me cry last night while accepting the Oscar for Best Actor. “Run to the rescue with love—and peace will follow,” he said, quoting lyrics written by his late brother, the actor River Phoenix. A lot of people don’t know that River was a talented musician as well as an Oscar-nominated actor. He […]

February 10, 2020
On Phillip Schofield and remembering my own coming out

In a very moving statement released on Twitter this morning, and in an equally moving segment on This Morning, Phillip Schofield came out as gay. Married for 27 years to his wife Stephanie, they have two daughters. By Schofield’s own account his wife and children have been nothing but supportive. This can’t have been […]

February 7, 2020
Thoughts on that woman who wouldn’t vote for Pete Buttigieg because he’s gay

I can’t stop thinking about this viral video of an Iowa voter asking to change her vote after she discovered Pete Buttigieg is gay. My first thought was “where the hell has this woman been?” The fact that Pete Buttigieg is gay has been plastered everywhere. Hell, I’ve written about Pete’s sexuality and what […]

February 4, 2020
’twas the night before Brexit

I feel like I should write something to commemorate Brexit Eve, but honestly I feel like everything I want to say has already been said. Three-and-a-half years ago I wrote on this blog why, despite a deep Euroscepticism, I believed people should vote Remain. Then, after the referendum, I encouraged people to get on […]

January 30, 2020
Five things the American resistance can be thankful for this Thanksgiving

I don’t feel there’s a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. My country has elected a fascist and Native American water protectors are being attacked by the occupying American police. Colonialism and authoritarianism are alive and well on the shores of the United States, and if you’re a decent person, it’s hard to find […]

November 24, 2016
Equal at last: A few thoughts on what the SCOTUS decision means to me as a gay man

Just over a decade ago, I sat weeping as my home state of Kentucky passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in our fair commonwealth. I was 18 years old, a freshman in college, and had worked tirelessly trying to persuade my fellow Kentuckians to vote against discrimination. I went door-to-door in […]

June 27, 2015
The Curious American: Live from London

You lot really are amazing. What started off as, if I’m being honest, a seemingly naff suggestion by Twitter followers in February has come to fruition. Because of you. I’m sat in London (well, Walthamstow) ahead of the general election, ready to report and analyse my heart out for the next two weeks. When we […]

May 3, 2015