Father’s Day suddenly became a bit shit this year, didn’t it? Can’t say that I’ve seen a single positive post about it. Lots of moms wishing themselves a happy Fathers Day. Fair enough. Opinionistas aplenty berating dead-beat dads. Can’t fault that either. …

OR SUFFER THE PERILS OF BEING NEITHER — I am blessed, or cursed, with a real affinity for seeing both sides of the story. All sides, really. It’s not for everyone. It’s damn hard work, and the rewards are slim. You have to have at least a passing familiarity with intellectual honesty. You have to be tough, when…

A cool prompt from somewhere else* — Back when such things were legal, I attended a ‘Christian Nationalist’ state school in a pariah African republic, damaged and obsessed with the afterlife — and the necessary act of dying, to cross that bridge. And not obsessed in a no-regrets, take-me-anytime, living-my-best-Instagram-life way either, but in a richly imaginative…

To see their work, you have to block everyone else. — Disclaimer: The 22 ‘headlines’ in this story are not written in Title Case because I’m not American. This may be the grumpiest article I’ve written here yet. But tell me you’re not also sick of the amount of verbal flotsam you have to wade through on Medium every day. Look, I mean well I…

First fragment of f%$k form — Art should inspire, Not with the pretence of inspirational fakery, but with immortal words and works, of a type long forgotten and denied ever since. Everyone with a brush in hand ought to hear in their home what they yearn to express. Everyone in mind of music should hear, in…