WORK · DATING · HUMOUR · The Unfinished Man
No Suitable Applicants
A career spent finding suitable candidates. A romantic vacancy that apparently remains impossible to fill.
The collected works. So far.
The writing.
An assortment of essays, opinions and unfortunate observations. Some serious. Some ridiculous. All available to read at their original homes.
01 / The Unfinished Man
Current writing
LITERATURE · IDENTITY · The Unfinished Man
Apparently Shakespeare Understood Being Gay
Four centuries after Sonnet 29, a playwright somehow manages to make a gay man from West Yorkshire feel rather less alone.
TRAVEL · PERSONAL ESSAY · The Unfinished Man
I Came on Holiday to Find Myself
A holiday, an attempt at self-discovery and the awkward business of taking yourself along for the journey.
DATING · DESIRE · The Unfinished Man
Maybe I’m Attracted to Rejection
On wanting to be chosen, finding yourself drawn to unavailable people and wondering whether the pattern is trying to tell you something.
02 / From the archive
Previously published
Older work, including cultural criticism and an early instalment of the lifelong project of trying to get one's act together.
MUSIC · REVIEW · TheGayUK · 2020
DISCO — Unashamed, Pure Unadulterated Joy
Kylie Minogue, a disco record released when dancefloors were closed, and the sheer necessity of a bit of joy.
OPINION · COLUMN · TheGayUK · 2020
Reinvention — It’s Not Just for Madonna
Madonna, the Real Housewives and an earlier attempt to work out what changing your life might actually look like.
Every link opens the original article. New commissions and essays will join this collection as they appear.