Everyone has an anecdote, right? Even if it’s something small, like how one day on the way to work you ran into Nigel Havers at the train station - like, actually, bumped into him. It’s something you can whip out at a moment’s notice, pretty confident that no
Standing outside the school gate as I wait to pick-up my daughter, I hear a phrase for the second time in my life. “That man has a penis on his t-shirt!” says a woman in a shocked, whisper-concerned tone. I immediately know this is about me, for
I walked my daughter to school this morning, desperately hoping she’d say something amazing. The kind of incredible phrase only a 5-year-old could come up with, their brains only partially able to form exactly what they are trying to put together. A comment or question that upon
I’m online a lot. My whole career (what’s left of it) is online, so I read hundreds of news and article headlines every day. As someone who has run multiple large websites in the past, I’m also very familiar with people shouting “clickbait” at any headline that
We live in a time when it’s often necessary to take an extra look at the art around us. What’s real and what’s AI? While a new breed of chancers are on the scene looking to sell AI slop to unsuspecting shoppers, some artists are disappointingly getting
The school summer holiday is over. Thank fuck for that. Excuse the swearing, it’s just been quite a trying six weeks. If you’re reading this on Thursday, both my kids returned to school this morning, considerably wiser having spent so much of that time with me. If you
It’s always fun to put yourself in the mind of a child, if only to try to get a sense of how they see the world via their overly large eyes and rapidly expanding brain power. People often think of kids as essentially like them, but smaller, but once
“I told you all this last week!” Have you ever said this with a tinge of annoyance in your voice, or been on the end of that annoyance? “You never listen to me!” Maybe sometimes a brain uncontrollably starts thinking about something else or is distracted by an event outside
It’s nice to have a little break, isn’t it. Nine consecutive days of no work (OK, I did a small amount of work) and more time with the family - time to chill. We didn’t go anywhere, but we did embark on day trips, with at least one
Local Man Fails at Making a Living Writing About His Uneventful Life Veteran video games journalist Tom Orry, a man who survived over two decades scraping a living in games media - founding VideoGamer.com and directing operations at VG247 and Eurogamer - this year turned his focus toward his most formidable
“If only I could turn back time, if only I had said what I still had. If only I could turn back time, I would stay for the night. For the night.” It’s Monday night and I’ve just watched half of the Keanu Reeves sort-of-comedy, Good
It was a normal Tuesday, or what we have now seemingly accepted as a normal Tuesday in July. It’s not 37 °C, just a mere 29 later in the day, so everything is fine. Of course it’s not, as 29 °C is a ridiculous temperature, but we’re