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
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
SIX UNLIKELY UPRISINGS / OH COMELY
It’s possible to wake up one day and completely change the world. Yes! We have it within us to see something amiss in society and to find a way to READ MORE
PEARL MACKIE / OH COMELY
The programme was called Mean Town. Pearl Mackie hadn’t heard of it before, but had been asked by her agent if she might be available. Since leaving drama school five READ MORE
ALICE BIRCH / OH COMELY
Sometimes if you want something to exist you have to make it yourself. In the midst of a busy, burgeoning theatrical career, playwright Alice Birch put this saying into practice READ MORE