Way back in the summer (remember then? It was, genuinely, remarkably, somehow, a simpler time), I used this weekly piece to offer a free ...

As we reorient ourselves once more to face forward, looking up at 2021 as it forms before us, it may well feel daunting, it might’ve alre...

As this year metaphorically mumbles, gurgles and grumbles its last words before finally succumbing to its inevitable passing, I’d like to...

Did you ever play Stuck in The Mud when you were younger? It’s basically a game of tag. One player’s ‘it’ and everyone else scatters to e...

Our instinct to help others in need, especially those we love, is a sign of our natural human (primal, even animalistic) drive. We see so...

So here we are again then, December. And what a confusing old month it is. It’s a time of merry celebration and weary, northern-hemispher...

I’ve come to believe that life is small. The big, revealing answers to the grand questions of existence, of purpose, of will, of fate, of...

What a strange thing it is to live, what a precarious endeavour. Because life is so razor thin. And we forget it is. We tend to look forw...

Sometimes everything has been said and there’s nothing more to add; doing so just expands the ever-swelling mass. And what for, really? I...

The streets in my part of town are old and narrow, tight stone passages just about wide enough for a single car to pass if pedestrians hu...

When you find yourself in a hole, and the hole seems deeper every day and the sides steeper in every way, when you keep on slipping towar...

About 2 billion years ago there was a type of bacteria on the Earth’s surface, maybe in the oceans, maybe on land, I can’t remember. As i...

There was a period in our lives, my brother Joe and I, when every other Saturday we’d stay the night with our dad. It was from when I was...

I was recently out at a restaurant for a friend’s birthday. There were about 10 of us pressed onto two benches either side of a picnic st...

If morality was a group of muscles, then I wonder if honesty would be the glutes. These great big muscles in the bum have the potential t...

This move of mine to Mallorca has, so far, been a supremely unsettling affair, which is probably obvious, isn’t it? In the simplest of te...

As I write this, I’m sitting with my brother Joe having some cake and tea on the breeze tickled terrace of a right delightfully swanky ho...

Have you heard about the 144,000 angels? That isn’t the start to a joke. Apparently, there are 144,000 angels who exist for no other purp...

A happy Monday to you. Another short one this week, and the next few in all likelihood, as I pack my life in London into cardboard boxes ...

Morning all, I’m writing a very short one today because it’s all I have time for this week and in doing so I notice the urge to give myse...