Why is being 30 considered ‘old’?Ever since I turned 30, the above question has been bothering me because there’s this weird disconnect between what people on either side…Jun 8Jun 8
“KAYLEY’S CHARGER IS MISSING” — a movie pitchI was at my parents at the weekend, and my dad started asking me about my relationship with the internet. His point was that life would…Jun 51Jun 51
“Mickey Mouse Degrees”I heard the above term a lot when I was growing up. I thought it had slowly leaked out of discourse because I hadn’t heard it in a while…May 292May 292
Why I writeI remember barely any of the fiction I wrote prior to about 2014. This may seem strange, given I did creative writing at university between…Apr 24Apr 24
AI. Artificial Incompetence.I wrote this story in 2015. I never published it. I randomly stumbled across it recently and thought I’d post it because its surprisingly…Apr 18Apr 18
The Checkout Staff are not HumansI recently read that attacks on shop workers, both physical and verbal, have risen by 50% this year. It got me thinking back to when I…Feb 161Feb 161
Age is a weird conceptI have this visceral memory of my first day of sixth form. I was allowed to wear my own clothes to school now. No school uniform. No tie. I…Jan 19Jan 19
How I’ve grown my audience on YouTube this yearThis entry may be a bit navel-gazey, but it seems that about 50% of articles on Medium are about growing your audience on various social…Nov 8, 20231Nov 8, 20231
When Kings Cross was emptyMy train was on time. That was the first sign I had that things were about to get scary. My commute takes me from Welwyn Garden City to…Nov 3, 2023Nov 3, 2023