The greatest cure I ever found for a drinking habit is for something godawful to happen. You can try any number of things, but a crisis is key. It could be someone dying, bankruptcy, watching your labrador get flattened by a Renault Sedan, any of the stuff that makes people…

Monday October 19th was a day like no other. Similar you could say, but uniquely different. As the morning news filtered onto the interfaces lighting up the screens and dinging the notifications, the nation roused itself to smell the coffee. Covid vaccines were forecast for the end of the year…

When I am old and beaten down by my years I will raise a smile and remember the time my uncle took me to discover beer. …

Week beginning Monday 9th March Are you actually worried about it though? 100%. So came the text from my friend Sam as I sat watching Tottenham get dumped out of the Champions League on Tuesday night. …

Piano music plays softly as a man in underwear walks through an immaculate apartment. His environment drips clean lines and control. His body is expertly developed, Mediterranean brown and muscle bound, but tastefully. He lists off his skin routine. Deep-pore cleanser lotion. Water-activated gel cleanser. Honey almond body scrub. Exfoliating…

An honest look at a life of lies — The first conversation I ever had with my girlfriend began with a lie. It was the most electric conversation I’d had all year. I stood in the bathroom of a strange flat one night in late December with my phone nuzzling my right ear as a brief pause allowed in…

The cool thing about getting older is you learn what doesn’t really matter — A bald man. This is all I am now, I thought to myself. One of them. The men with no hair. I gazed into the mirror and applied a gray paste carefully to the top of my head with a spatula. …

Navigating the modern world with a brick phone throws up some existential quandaries — The last email I ever read on a phone was from Papa John’s Pizza Delivery in July 2011. It was the middle of a long hot summer and as I gazed into the sad space between me and my loneliness, a beep from my Blackberry Bold 9700 pierced the haze…

If somebody invited you to something you weren’t going to be around for, it would make sense to decline the invitation. A bit foolish to make plans you wouldn’t be there to partake in. A good definition of depression is the idea of there being no future. …