Authors for Philippines: If you help this cause, I will put you in my next...
It’s hell, being a stealth competitor. Only the people who know me very well know how competitive I really am. In public, I gush pious homilies ("It’s not a competition. There’s room for all of us!")...
View ArticleA hipster humiliates a 'dying' middle-aged woman on a flight. Twitter applauds
UPDATE: Someone claiming to be a cousin of Diane has written to Elan Gale claiming that she's dying of lung cancer. See the bottom of this post for the details. Inadequate young men have a new hero and...
View ArticleHow I mummified a corpse while eating biscuits
I blame Barbara Cartland. If the Steel Blancmange hadn’t decided to Live The Dream, draping herself over chaise longues and batting her eyelashes at terrified young-pup journalists, the world would...
View ArticleI'm dreaming about dead people and animals
I’m at the worst stage of writing at the moment: the bit where nothing is done. Oh, Lord, I probably shouldn’t even have said that out loud. Part of the pact between writer and editor is that they...
View ArticleMurder's one thing, but being mean to dogs? You monster
Tasha’s wearing mauve. Should have been my first clue, really. Mauve is one of those colours fashion designers long since relegated to collections aimed at women who don’t want their husbands to touch...
View ArticleWhy Fred Phelps helped the cause of gay rights
Somewhere in America, a nasty old man is dying. No doubt there are other nasty old men dying everywhere, because imminent death rarely alters a personality to the good, but this nasty old man is Fred...
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