“Don’t make everything political”

The BBC has decided that certain current-events reporters should not be seen to attend or tweet about certain events/issues/movements lest their "impartiality" apparently be compromised. Let's see where this goes - hopefully swiftly to the bin once unions and lawyers are through with it - but also let's talk about what impartial really means when it comes to identity.

“Straight Pride” isn’t a thing, nor should it be

Here we go again! You may have heard about the Boston 'Straight Pride' proposal. More on that later. The imagined trials of straightness Next time you see someone whine about why they can't have a Pride for their common or garden heterosexuality, do ask them how, exactly, they have suffered for it in their lives. …

Fear, Anger, Hate, Suffering

It's been an unbelievable few days and now I've stumbled home in a daze after shedding some tears at today's news, I will try to collect myself here. At the weekend we saw the massacre of 49 mainly Latinx LGBT+ people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando,FL. This act of homophobic terrorism shook the whole world …

QEDcon 2015

As ever, the opening video didn't disappoint - congratulations to all whose hard work made this tweaked Left Behind trailer funny and so technically impressive: QED is my Christmas; or, what I imagine Christmas to be like for people who actually enjoy it. My family now is smaller than it was, and we do things our own way, …

Seattle Down

This June I made my way over to the Pacific North-West to see a dear friend of mine who had to move away from London last year. I had THE BEST TIME so here's a series of photos of me enthusiastically pointing at cool stuff, in an homage to another friend, the now world-famous (or …