My First Job: Porn Dealer for Old Women
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” “A journalist.” “Oh, you don’t want to do that. If you like words, you should be a teacher or a librarian.” So I ended up at my local library for my first...
View ArticleAll Tomorrow’s Parties: A Love Letter
Butlins' giant deckchair of joy Oh, ATP. Site of a thousand half-remembered regrets and misdemeanors. So with the relocation of ATP from Butlins, Minehead, to Camber Sands, and the announcement of the...
View ArticleKick Ass Women Role Models We Have Loved: #2 Astronauts
Remember when you were younger, and absolutely everything space-related had a picture of a bloke in a spacesuit? Everything. Occasionally a dog in a spacesuit. But never a woman. That sucked, because...
View ArticleBikini (Over)kill: or Why Everyone Should Shut Up About Beach Volleyball Outfits
Image by @Brixtonite Great news! London 2012 is the first Olympic games to see every participating country send women to compete! The two medals Team GB have scored so far were won by Rebecca...
View ArticleHelmets Won’t Protect You From Lorries: a word on cycle safety
Print by Etsy user Isleofprinting Poor Bradley Wiggins. As quickly as cyclists were lauding him for being the first cyclist to bag a gold and the yellow jersey in the same year, and being the most...
View ArticleVoicemail Needs to Die a Death
This is actually my phone at the moment. It wasn’t smashed through voicemail rage, but damn it, it should have been. If you leave me a voicemail, I promise I won’t listen to it. I might even think a...
View ArticleThank Flick It’s Friday
I don’t know about you, but this week can take a piss up a rope. To get you through the final throes, and see you into a bank holiday weekend, here’s a playlist of songs from me and Holly. Enjoy!
View ArticleBaggage – Or How I Learned to Love Hoarding Thanks to Technology
I always wanted to be a feted diarist. The kind of person who would have their daily soul-purging pored over by undergraduates late on a Saturday night. Studying a few years ago, I’d always find a...
View ArticleWhy I Shout At Street Harassers
Illustration by alvarotapia and used under a Creative Commons licence. I make no apologies for the fact the Rolling Stones are one of my favourite bands. And one day when I was walking to the bus stop...
View ArticleThe Perks of Travelling Alone
I’m writing in an airport, alone, having spent the past five days on holiday, alone. I flew out alone, mostly wandered alone, and have come back alone. And it was brilliant, and I’d do it again...
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