Dysautonomia 2: The Sequel
When your daughter theoretically starts to design the colour scheme for my custom-made electric wheelchair (I have not ordered one, for clarity), to enable me to attend her dance performance, [...]
On Wasps, On CBT, On Oxbridge, On Change
As a six-year-old, I had a crush on a classmate. I’ll refer to her as ‘S’. One pleasant summer’s day, our family went on a walk, along a former railway [...]
Comment Piece in The Yorkshire Post
With the children returning to school on 7 September, The Yorkshire Post published my blog, originally entitled "Carpe Diem, Gavin Williamson" in reference to the Government's introduction of Latin. The [...]
Us and Them
Accompanying the scenes of the Kabul evacuation, Pink Floyd’s Us and Them plays on a continuous loop in my head. “Us (us, us, us, us) and them (them, them, them, [...]
Taliban 2.0?
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, my good friend went to the Iranian Embassy in London to collect our visas. In what was a foreboding experience, we had completed [...]
The Good Thing About Suspected Heart-Attacks
Although my robust heart has seen me through a lifetime of sport, including two marathons, this last six months she has become increasingly unruly. In the week that my umpteenth [...]
Carpe diem, Gavin Williamson
At the request of The Yorkshire Post, for whom I occasionally write, I have penned this comment piece. Perhaps they will publish it. Time will tell. I was limited to [...]
Tears For Fears
Men like me don’t cry: we aren’t supposed to cry. But we do. I do. I have, and I will. Four times in the last week I have been moved [...]
Lord: where’s the flies?
As a teenager, during the summer holidays I would wash cars with my mates, for cash. Never have I felt so flush, handling all those one-pound coins. Great times. Although [...]
Surely, we can do better than this, right?
Wired-up to a portable ECG monitor whilst I type, I feel like a hybrid human-cyborg. Doubtless this state-of-the art gizmo is cleverly reading all the electrical signals going to my [...]
