AN ORDINARY LIFE / OH COMELY
The average human laughs a couple of dozen times each day but very few of them stick. I can remember all of the significant laughs of my life: the time READ MORE
ASSASSINATION VACATION / OH COMELY
Knowledge in everyday life so often arrives wearing the garments of the pub bore, the explainer who behaves as if they somehow own the facts they know, who doesn’t share READ MORE
THE END OF ENDINGS / OH COMELY
I was 27 when I first learned that The Beatles is a pun. Even though I’ve known how to spell “beetle” for some time, I’d somehow never made the connection READ MORE
HOW TO GET KICKED OUT OF A MUSEUM / OH COMELY
My lack of a criminal past owes more to cowardice than an abundance of virtue. I’ve always been uncomfortable with the prospect of rebellion, which made me an unlikely candidate READ MORE
JOSIE LONG / OH COMELY
On certain days it’s possible to wake up in a country you don’t quite recognise. From bruising austerity cuts to the spread of nationalism, it hasn’t been the easiest decade READ MORE
SOPHIE COOKSON / OH COMELY
By virtue of their profession, actors are more accustomed than most to monitoring their own emotions. Out of the possible ones on offer, Sophie Cookson argues that fear is an READ MORE
SIX PETS WITH CONSTITUTIONAL POWER / OH COMELY
The relentless electioneering of recent years has been exhausting and demoralising, but politics isn’t wholly bleak: it will always be funny, at least, when animals gain constitutional power. “Chief Mouser READ MORE
LORD NELSON IN CILFYNYDD / OH COMELY
In retrospect it was quite a coup for the 12th Pontypridd Scout Group to come into the possession of Lord Nelson’s body. He was down in the basement, our READ MORE
SEEING THINGS IN THE DARK / OH COMELY
I am staring up at where the ceiling should be, except the ceiling isn’t there any more. In its place is blackness, and so I stare up at the blackness, READ MORE
DOING THINGS IN THE DARK / OH COMELY
It’s late. Very late. Extremely late. So late it’s early, as your aunt used to say. Instead of trying to get back to sleep like a sensible person, why not READ MORE