It’s a common experience: every freelancer will eventually find themselves talking to someone who’s enduring a difficult work situation. A colleague is a curmudgeon, or insists on fielding personal calls READ MORE
The crucial difference between songs and records is that a song is an idea and a record is a thing. The clue’s in the name: a record is a READ MORE
The essential contradiction of professional wrestling is that it is both fake and real at the same time. While its outcomes are predetermined, the participants still have to push their READ MORE
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
It’s a compelling proposition: in her latest stand-up show Dope, Mae Martin details the significant addictions of her life, one by one. First, as a child she becomes obsessed READ MORE
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
Any film that covers thirty years in the life of its subject will inevitably contain an generous amount of incident, especially if that person is as industrious and well-travelled as READ MORE
“You have to stop comparing yourself to people who are exceptional”, an ex-girlfriend said to me once. How I responded is lost to time, but I can only imagine that READ MORE
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
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