Along with millions of other Youtube viewers I enjoyed Emma Watson’s speech on feminism at the UN. It was a very wise speech, successfully arguing that for feminism to reach its goals it needs to be a movement for men too. The genius of the speech was in showing that […]
It’s been a depressing week, on all fronts. On the war front, obviously. But that seems to be every week. The twenty-first century just seems to be one long rotating war. It has also been depressing on the depression front. Of course, we had the horrible news about Robin Williams […]
I haven’t blogged for a while. Well, not blog blogged. I’ve tweeted – micro-blogged – but not gone deep. I’ve been busy writing a screenplay and a memoir about depression (get me). But I’ve just read something and got annoyed. And annoyance, it turns out, is a lead trigger for blogging. […]
When I was 24 I very nearly killed myself. I was living in Ibiza at the time, in a very nice villa, on the quiet east coast of the island. The villa was right next to a cliff. In the midst of depression I walked out to the edge of […]
The Humans was chosen as one of the 20 World Book Night 2014 books. Thousands of copies of the book were given out for free on April 23rd 2014. Thanks to all of the World Book Night givers and do get in touch if you received a free copy.