SIX ACCIDENTAL MOMENTS ON GREAT RECORDS / OH COMELY
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
Journalism Features
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
FREELANCERS WITH GREEN EYES / IPSE MAGAZINE
“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
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
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
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
THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE / OH COMELY
One of the hardest parts of growing up takes place years after the actual growing up. It comes when you revisit a person or place that was instrumental in your READ MORE
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 5: PINING FOR THE FJORDS / OH COMELY
You die on a Tuesday, which surprises you for several reasons. Over the years before that fateful weekday you had generally avoided contemplating the circumstances which might prompt your untimely READ MORE