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12 Movies Even More Locked Down Than You

So you think youre suffocating, need to get out of your home and get away? Others have it worse in the movies. Obviously Saw and The Evil Dead will make you feel positively liberated by comparison but there are plenty of other Lockdown movies to choose from. These came from the top of my head []

Hidden On The Top Shelf…

My parents owned a forbidden book. I could see it from where I sat in the little reading chair they had bought me for my seventh birthday. On the top shelf of the bookcase was a massive brick with a heavy-looking matt-black canvas cover. The title was printed in silver and was too small to []

Total Midnight

My monster in a box was meant to have been locked away with the lid nailed down by now. What seemed like a grand idea may become (to mix metaphors) my albatross. The box contains just about every published story Ive ever written, some revised into definitive versions, minus a handful I didnt deem good []

The Unfashionability of JB Priestley

An author bullied out of print by the arrogance of the intelligentsia. When I asked if my mother wanted something to read, she instantly requested JB Priestley. The plays? I asked. Of course not, she replied testily, the novels. John Boynton Priestley is mainly known for his theatre work, but Priestley was remembered to an []

The Lockdown Diaries 10: The Most Intriguing Paradoxes

The UK government’s hilarious mail-out warning the nation’s at-risk population to shield – ie. lock themselves in an oubliette and throw away the key, is doubtless falling on deaf ears. It’s the latest ‘most intriguing paradox’ worthy of WS Gilbert; you’re at risk if you have an underlying condition. If the condition requires you to […]

The Lockdown Diaries: The Most Intriguing Paradoxes

The UK governments hilarious mail-out warning the nations at-risk population to shield ie. lock themselves in an oubliette and throw away the key, is doubtless falling on deaf ears. Its the latest most intriguing paradox worthy of WS Gilbert; youre at risk if you have an underlying condition. If the condition requires you to []

The Lockdown Diaries 9: Chemo Lad VS The World

See Someone FFS! The purpose of coming out about cancer was to dispel some of the fears people might have about getting a diagnosis at this time. Everyone’s experience is different just as symptoms and treatments are different, but the crucial thing is to stop worrying about a nebulous ‘thing’ and get diagnosed as fast as […]

Chemo Lad VS The World

See Someone FFS! The purpose of coming out about cancer was to dispel some of the fears people might have about getting a diagnosis at this time. Everyones experience is different just as symptoms and treatments are different, but the crucial thing is to stop worrying about a nebulous thing and get diagnosed as fast as []

The Lockdown Diaries: Does Everything Look Different Now?

This endless talk of disease provides all sorts of ways to frighten yourself. Im now avoiding bar charts inaccurately comparing countries and infection rates. I foolishly thought the balm of fiction would help. Stephen Soderbergs Contagion is back topping the charts at Netflix. The kaleidoscopic star-filled biography of a virus told in passing days from Day []

Does Everything Look Different Now?

This endless talk of disease provides all sorts of ways to frighten yourself. Im now avoiding bar charts inaccurately comparing countries and infection rates. I foolishly thought the balm of fiction would help. Stephen Soderbergs Contagion is back topping the charts at Netflix. The kaleidoscopic star-filled biography of a virus told in passing days from Day []