How Bovine Tuberculosis changed the lives of our cousins for the better — A similar article was originally published on Medium 2021, I have extensively revised and edited. We consider it normal to shape our lives to avoid, constrain and placate the worst of men, to be ordered around by them, to find ways to accommodate their behaviour. We’ve been swimming in filthy…

It has been a week of slowly coming untethered from all the solid ties I fashion about myself to ensure normality, stability and safety. Such as there is in this world. I keep the wolves at bay by ignoring their howling and firmly turning on the lights. (You can find…

A Journey to the City — a True Story — “Imagine the perversity, the level of repulsive fetishism and entitlement you’d have to feel to think you can just do this. In public with people all around you.” We start trickling in around 5am. A motley crew, the five o’clock people. A little after 5 the train hauls its unwilling…

What’s In a Ring? — “Garrulous Glaswegian Gagged by Elite Goons in Gripping Gossip Grapple”. In which Alison’s I Told You So Campaign is Revived As I’ve mentioned before, I try to avoid the further exploits of Ginge and Whinge — I really do. But there is something about incredibly fortunate people with no self awareness or gratitude who throw huge public tantrums that makes…

Dear friends, frenemies and constant stalkers, I’m still recovering from a bout of Covid. Not as bad as the one that had me looking like this back in January 2022 (photo from article I published at the time). To be clear, I don’t generally waltz around in flower crown —…

Has Elon Finally Gone Too Far? — Despite many gleeful predictions that the Musk takeover would kill the bird site, Twitter has continued on its merry way more or less unphased over the last year, maintaining its place as one of the most popular social media sites in the world. Until now. Following Elon Musk’s latest proposal…

The next time I touch your face, it will be spring, and the jacaranda will be coming into bloom. I brush my fingertips over the solid angles of your jaw, and steal a warm kiss. …

Thoughts about a remarkable woman — “They tried to bury me. They didn’t realise I was a seed.”* Sinead O’Connor will forever be 56. Soon enough, fate permitting, I will be her age, then one year older than her, and then ten. For Sinead died on the 26th July 2023. Her song Nothing Compares to You…

Fool Me a Dozen Times, Shame on Me — As soon as we were introduced, I knew we were a poor match. We had so little in common — we really weren’t simpatico. I should have paid attention to that inner voice, that instinctive recoil — but I was lonely and wanted some attention and adult conversation, which you…