I’ve stopped eating cows, if that’s any good. Of the very limited palette of positive impacts available to us, that’s the one I’ve found suited me best. I don’t drive much, and I don’t buy clothes unless I need […]

The plastic bag thing was always about litter in hedgerows and oceans full of poor little turtly-wurtlies getting tangled in them, than the production impact

They went underground

It’s political repetitiveness gone mad

No, that’s not a real gender

Transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, androgyne, androgynous, gender fluid, gender nonconforming, gender questioning, gender variant, genderqueer, trans-europeexpressgender, neutrois, intersex, […]

yes

Hey, respect my adjectives, Tiggs! I’m binary because I identify as one of the two exclusionary biological genders, rather than any or all of the sexy new ones

It’s true – I am deeply prejudiced against myself, and no one can dispute this because they haven’t had the lived experienced of my self-prejudice. In fact, any attempt to persuade me my self-identified […]

As a straight white middle-aged middle-class binary cis-male I keep the hell out of the whole trans debate, because my opinion would be ignored anyway, and rightly so. But when they starts insisting on bespoke […]

They isn’t!

investing in low-carbon public transport = ignoring the zeitgeist?

No, but this thread has me humming Mardy Bum by the Arctic Monkeys all day yesterday, so there’s that

I finally got round to seeing this on a long haul flight last week. I swear they served two meals during it. Obviously watching on a tiny screen with tinny headphones while trying to eat without moving your elbows […]

Twang, do yo know what kind of audience numbers the podcasts get, and which are most/least popular?

Ah well that’s another story. Years ago I was in a play with a girl who very proudly told me her new boyfriend, Stuart, wrote for Q Magazine using the pen-name Stuart Maconie. Maconie wasn’t well known then, but […]

You’re not going to believe this story, but it’s true, so there.

One night last year we were out to dinner with some friends and this guy I didn’t know. The subject of talking at gigs came up, and he started […]

or Leamington

I went to see my spinal surgeon. I said “I’ve got a long-standing problem with my back”
He said ” What’s the problem?”
I said “I just told you.”