Working-class writers, will they exist in ten years? In a recent phone call with my parents, my mum, who knows I am hoping to qualify to...

I have been aware of my mortality for a long time. Before I went to school, lost pets or grandparents, I would sit up at night,...

I have had a very challenging weekend, mental health wise, so I thought it might be interesting and useful to write about it. Self-doubt...

I received an exciting gift this Christmas. A second-hand digital SLR. My plan is to learn and experiment with one of the manual...

This "starving" (well not quite) artist is selling signed paperback copies of her books on Ebay. You can browse them here. Including...

This morning's walk in photos.

The rum bar seems a cosy setting to wait out the apocalypse.

If the world does return to normal, I think this will be a very strange period of time that we look back on and scratch our heads over...

I am old enough to know that there is no perfect town or city, and this will remain my home until my younger daughter is an adult...

The world seems to have moved on from lock down and social distancing, but Covid19 is still a clear and present danger...

Protecting women as an excuse for racism and denying rights to trans women has a long, problematic and bloody history...

In this blog post I’d like to offer a brief (and ridiculously simplified) history about why racism exists...

We live in a world full of media that centres whiteness as the default and everything else as other...

Accepting that you experience white privilege on a daily basis isn’t about admitting you’re bad person...

I'm sure I'm not the only bibliophile who loves a few shelfies...

I'm celebrating my birthday in Lockdown, while discussing whether or not Lovecraft was a misogynist as well as a racist, spoiler alert-...

Almost two months into Lockdown and Chip wants to know why there's no fish in our fresh vegetables delivery. The rest of us are doing...

31.587 recorded COVID-19 deaths in the UK so far, and 215,260 confirmed cases, but the actual number might be much higher due to lack of...

We've had the odd meltdown this week, inevitable perhaps with two teenagers stuck in the same house as us. But on the plus side, I've...