Pride and diversity and futures
Last weekend, I took my kid to Milton Keynes Pride Festival, and we had a lovely time. Part of it was the joyous warmth that generally seems to fill the air at any kind of Pride event, even though the … Continued
Other Things
OnlyFans won’t be the only ones
It looks as though OnlyFans is going to go down the same plughole as Tumblr… and various other corners of the Interweb that previously gave sex workers and porn creators a chance to earn a living and express themselves on … Continued
I Went To A Marvellous Party
Some, of course, started dancing at a minute past midnight last Monday. Clubs, finally allowed to open their doors after nearly a year and a half, generally went for it, with predictable ‘hot takes’ (some whinyarsed puritanical scolding, some handwringing-but-broadly-sympathetic, … Continued
Guess what else is coming home…
‘Coming home, it’s coming home’ is one of those things that was a meme before memes were a thing.25 years down the line, a football song made less irritating than many others by its wistful self-deprecation has been hauled into … Continued
Not so sexy sex scandals
Mate, couldn’t you have waited? Not so much for the ‘rules’ to change (because everyone knows that most of them are arbitrary nonsense rather than sensible public health guidance) but because if all the Matt Hancock Sex Scandal had only … Continued
Respectability, kink and consent
The ongoing squawkfest about whether kink should be ‘allowed’ at Pride events seems to be quite the bullshit cocktail. Some of it is likely to be concern trolling or simple mischief, as usual in the Time of Internets. Some of … Continued
Review Rage – Right and Wrong
Reviews can be the bane of any author’s life. Some people would advise never reading them because too many bad ones will make you miserable – and perhaps too many enthusiastic ones will make you bigheaded. Certainly one author recently … Continued
Too Explicit Or Not Too Explicit
Or, to revive a phrase some of us hoped to popularize at the end of last year, that state of being effectively caught between a crematorium and a dildo emporium. Basically, I got thrown off TikTok, rather to my annoyance. … Continued
Poetry, rhymes and reasons
People seem to be paying attention to poetry again, it seems, which isn’t surprising in the light of Amanda Gorman’s magnificent The Hill We Climb. Her books have stormed up the charts and rightly so. Poetry for important occasions, state … Continued
Fiction and predictions
Poor old Stephen King must be getting rather tired of denying he’s writing predictions rather than simply good stories. First he had everyone insisting that Trump is the hideous Greg Stillson (from The Dead Zone) made flesh, then everyone lost … Continued