COMMENT | I’ve swung… From Conservatives to Labour
Election 2017 – Good Luck… and Don’t F**k It Up This is the biggest election of my generation. We’ve heard this a lot and it’s mostly been attached to the […]
THE UNDATEABLE GAY | On a detox
COLUMN | The Undateable Gay Now, I’m not talking a man/dating detox. Oh god, no. I couldn’t do that. It’d be like depriving Dot Cotton of her cigarettes. No, I’m […]
COLUMN | Why a transgender woman wants to be MP
Why the time is right for me to stand for parliament. In the 1980s at the height of the Cold War, I was stationed in West Germany with an RAF […]
Dear Unloved Me … What Advice Would You Give The Pre-First-Love You?
If you could go back before you fell in love for the first time, what would you tell yourself? Dear Unloved Me, This is a difficult one to cover. Ideally, […]
THE UNDATEABLE GAY | Can you find love in a gay sauna?
SPA a thought for me… As my quest for Mr right continues, I’m keeping an open mind when it comes to ways of discovering just where the bloody hell he […]
Five totally rubbish ways to end things with your boyfriend
Exit Strategies (…or rubbish my ex-partners have told me) Extricating yourself from a relationship isn’t easy. We’ve all been there; watching a once-promising union limping sadly towards the end, trying […]
JOURNEY TO FATHERHOOD 6: Back on the straight and narrow road to fatherhood
My hiatus is over and having wondered into the foothills near the road to becoming a father, I have now returned to the straight and narrow. Recently three things have […]
COLUMN | Okay, basically I want a VW Beetle
Everywhere around Bird towers, you will spot something relating to Volkswagen. More-so relating to the old school ways of the Beetle and bus. Most things during my school days related […]
5 things that are actually the worst about shopping
Last week I experienced something horrific: shopping on Oxford Street. I avoid clothes shopping until my wardrobe is decimated. I wait until I’m down to a few pairs of socks […]
Dear Innocent-Me… What warnings, or advice, would you give your past self on the delightful world of gay dating apps?
Embed from Getty Images Dear Innocent Me, I’m going to jump right into this one, partly because I have a word-count to stick to, but also because it’s a pretty […]
5 really annoying things about going to a wedding
Now, I’m not one to rain on anyone’s parade and I’m the first to shout out a resounding YES to the fact that we have marriage equality. I’m stunned that […]