"Unlike previous over-enthusiastic fans, these men were being entitled, rude and aggressive. Asking me for something and refusing to hear the word no, they seemed a hair’s breadth from anger." I wrote about modern fan encounters, and how nasty they can be. www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...
It used to be people would respect your personal space – now, it’s all a bit sinister.
"Unlike previous over-enthusiastic fans, these men were being entitled, rude and aggressive. Asking me for something and refusing to hear the word no, they seemed a hair’s breadth from anger." I wrote about modern fan encounters, and how nasty they can be. www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...
It used to be people would respect your personal space – now, it’s all a bit sinister.
I spin backwards in time, to my teenage years...I picture myself in the crowd at the Hemel Hempstead Pavilion, cigarette in hand, dancing to Ian Dury and the Blockheads, the Specials, or Buzzcocks. Or I’m in Victoria Park gazing at the Clash, and X-Ray Spex. www.newstatesman.com/back-pages/2...
Inside London's Notre Dame de France, I find beautiful murals by Jean Cocteau.
I'm not doing very well at being on all the platforms at once! But I will at least try to post my writing here. Latest column, on the loneliness of long term illness www.newstatesman.com/back-pages/2...
You can’t truly share in pain, or suffering; you can’t share stays in hospital, or scans, or drug treatments.
Spending the weekend spreading myself thin on every different social media, trying to work out where I fit. Basically right now I'm everywhere I'm so etc etc
thank you!
just finishing reading this now, and it's great - what are his other good ones?
Wrote a column about looking at old unseen family photos with my siblings. All the feelings at once. www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...
ooh that looks v good
Here we go then!