27 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm

“My mother is a homophobe”. An interview with @ru_lgbt_teen, a gay teenager in Russia 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm

Last week I wrote about anti-LGBT laws across the globe, particularly in Russia, for the Telegraph. As well as receiving a huge number of horrendous comments, the piece led me to start an email corres...

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The Book of Accidents 14 26 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm

He looked guilty. He always looked guilty. He was born guilty. His brother told me a story once about watching him rush in and out of the kitchen, filling a pint glass from the kitchen sink. Down the ...

The Book of Accidents 13 25 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm

Hundreds of little pieces of glass in my hair, in my clothes, rising up from tiny cuts, hard-edged icebergs in a red sea. I was sat on a hard plastic bench in a hospital corridor. It smelled like my o...

Emoticons from history. From brucesterling: “*Emoticons... 25 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm

Emoticons from history. From brucesterling: “*Emoticons before the icon” 

The nasty noise behind the Twitter Silence 24 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm

I know a lot of you are craving total silence on the Twitter Silence, but there is one more thing to be said. Over the past few weeks, as the silly shock waves from the stunt have subsided, a number o...

The Book of Accidents 12 24 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm

I didn’t see the corpse first. It was the dog. Billy. The dogs always find the corpses first. They never get the credit in the news reports: “A man out walking his dog…” “A lady exercising her schnauz...

This is like the start of a Harry Styles horror movie.  24 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm

This is like the start of a Harry Styles horror movie.