Enough is Enough – Black Lives Matter
I am white. I have two children of mixed race. Their father is African American. I have benefited from white privilege all my life, generally…
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Lockdown: rules and other non-essential activities
Lockdown. We’re all in it together. I think. Everyone’s lives will be forever changed by events that are out of their control, for better or…
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Sea Changes, New Normals and Other Clichés
Reality and fiction are starting to merge. Had I started reading Lionel Shriver’s ‘The Mandibles’ a few months ago it would have just been another…
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Taking the Plunge
I have just sent off my first speculative email to a magazine commissioning editor. When I say first I’m not including the time I wrote…
Will There Always be a Rainbow after a Storm?
We like to believe that every cloud has a silver lining and after a storm there will be a rainbow. We want to believe in…
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There’s another storm coming…
There’s another storm coming. There’s always another storm coming. Sometimes they’re relentess, one after the other. And sometimes they appear out of nowhere after a…
