This morning I looked at the notes on my phone. My notes are entirely populated with wholly ridiculous drunken messages to myself,...

You'd be hard pushed to find someone more devastated at the fact that Pride events this year have been cancelled. Aside from Halloween,...

Cast your mind back to 1984. A young and bequiffed Midge Ure and Bob Geldof, who I think only owned that one ‘Feed the World’ t-shirt...

I’m sure I’m not alone in having started this lockdown in the blind and misplaced belief that I would use this time to write my...

I find satisfaction with the Here and Now absolutely impossible. There’s always something else I should be doing, always a way I need to...

It’s really easy to feel as though we’re living in an age of global political and social futility. I mean, this is awful isn't it? After...

The idea of fan fiction is quite interesting to me because it's the clearest sign that any time you put a story out into the world, it's...

Horror is my greatest love in terms of movies. Gore, body, supernatural, monster, slasher. I love great horror and I love terrible...

When I got home from being in hospital with my first panic attack (I thought I was dying, don't judge me) I spent the next four days in...

If I asked you to picture self care, what image would you conjure? I reckon you're probably picturing a bubble bath, candles, face mask,...

On the hottest day of the year I sought refuge in the air conditioned Curzon to watch Midsommar, a two and a half hour long absolute...

The binary between mental health and mental ill health is often painted as black and white. We’re fine or we’re not. There are episodes...

Sink. I don’t know what my equivalent of the spoon gently tapping the inside of the teacup is, but right now I’m in the sunken place. The...

If I was famous I would have three top priorities. The first would be to have a cameo in a Muppets film, the second would be to go on...

On the tube today I wrote a note on my phone of everything that’s wrong with me. It’s not a rib-tickling read. Everything went into that...

I wrote this piece the day Chester Bennington died. I'm reposting it today, in the wake of Keith Flint's suicide, because I think it's...

Cards on the table- this probably isn’t going to be a post laden with popular opinions. But not a whole lot of my other opinions are...

After I finished my master’s degree, I raided charity shops, bookshops and Amazon for YA fiction and children’s books. I had been solidly...

I’ve been through a break up this year, and it’s been pretty rough. We were together for four and a half years- my longest relationship...

Alright, what exactly is wrong with going to the cinema on your own? I don’t get it. On Saturday, I went to the Prince Charles Cinema to...