nickhereandnow

The more I read of people seeking "justice" after some horrendous crime, the more I realise it's a bit of a fool's erran...

I wrote once about the faculties I would like to have in an ideal world. Faculties that would overcome all the annoying limitations of our...

I've never felt in any way "masculine", and I'm not drawn to any of those things men are supposed to be passionate about...

This new trend of digging up something a person said 20 or 30 years ago and using it to discredit them seems ridiculous to me. We all had ...

I've always envied people with excellent memories, and always seen my own dreadful memory as an embarrassing deficit. But that's n...

I've read several thousand novels in my life, so many that whenever I'm immersed in a new book I can see all the flaws as well as ...

I have a large streak of scepticism. Probably why some people don't take to me - they get the sense I'll never quite believe what ...

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to have a "normal" family. Or at least how I picture a normal family, if such a thing exis...

I don't have a competitive bone in my body. Truthfully, I don't. I have no interest in proving I'm superior to someone else, o...

One thing I've learnt at my advanced age is that there's always a downside to everything. Always. No matter how wonderful somethin...

I wish people wouldn't use the word hero so casually, not just for those who've done something genuinely heroic and life-threateni...

Good to see that along with the protests over George Floyd's death, there's a rising focus on slavery and demands that statues o...

I've always been determined not to become a grumpy old man. There are far too many of them already, moaning non-stop about one disappo...

I never feel guilty. It's one of those "normal" emotions we're all supposed to feel from time to time, cringing in embar...

The UK news coverage is still overwhelm-ingly virus updates, with little "ordinary" news emerging. Even floods, droughts, famine...

Am I a cold fish or a cool cookie? I ask myself this a lot and usually decide I'm a cool cookie. The reason I ask this question is bec...

A funny thing, popularity. Why are some people apparently effortlessly popular, always the centre of attention with everyone gravitating...

My parents weren't much good at teaching me how to think, how to have my own opinions, how to be sociable, or how to express my emotio...

Some people seem to be in love with the past. They look back nostalgically at some supposed "golden age", they wish they could b...

Kylie reckons I'm "ever in journalist mode". Which is surely an awful thing to be, but she might be right. After all, I spen...