Today I voted to remain in the EU and I will be honest, after much debate, I only came to that decision this week. I have four major issues that swayed me to remain in the EU. A Europe at Peace At the weekend, I saw my Nana, who lived through the war and she …
With the EU referendum, we have heard copious amounts of talk about immigration, mass immigration, uncontrolled immigration, point systems for immigration from a variety of other countries around the World like Australia and Canada. I will be honest and say that immigration is not one of the big topics that concerns me really. However with …
This Saturday, on my birthday, my novella, The Faggot Journal will be published. The novella is a fictional retelling of my coming out. I have told similar versions of this story already on this blog, but with different twists like how the realisation of my sexuality occurred and how that affected my relationship with religion. This …
Last night, I wrote an article that came from a place of rage and anger. It was about what I believed was the cause and those who caused the horrible attack on LGBT people and cartoonists and other innocent people. But now I look for the hope that we still have as people and as …
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, …
Everyone goes through life in their own way and there will be people with different life lessons to me. However I have gone though life in my way and I have come to few conclusions on how people should go about their lives. Here are just a few. Don’t give a fuck what others say …