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 […]
There has been a lot of internet discussion following the great Philip Seymour-Hoffman’s death, on whether addiction is a disease, and how ‘responsible’ he was for his death. People talk about spoiled celebs and free will and life choices and all that. Though part of this is automatic bollocks, our […]