I’ve seen this original tweet a lot in the last few days and it has brought me joy every time. For two reasons. Firstly, Wickes didn’t need to go all-in like this with corporate allyship — and then to back it up with a LinkedIn post from their COO. …

I’m sure most readers will have seen some of the recent transphobia, now emanating from the BBC, as well as the rest of mainstream British journalism. So I made a complaint to the BBC, making sure to reference the appropriate BBC Guidelines. (It’s a lot of them.) You can complain…

Lots of conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion and representation have been promoted as a result of one advert in Sainsbury’s 2020 Christmas campaign featuring a Black father singing about gravy to his daughter: In a post on LinkedIn, Steve Murrells, CEO of the Co-op Group, celebrated Sainsbury’s advert and…

As I mentioned in the index post, I watch a lot of films and TV and, like a good little autist, I make lists. So here’s all the period films I watched in 2017 and 2018. But then didn’t get round to polishing it into actual blog posts. …

Content note: This article includes a pixellated image of the aftermath of a hate crime and descriptions of the attack. The last few days, much of Queer Britain has a Facebook feed containing a repeated image of 2 young women covered in blood. News broke on Friday that, on Wednesday…

As I mentioned in the index post, I’ve been keeping track of the TV and film I’ve been watching, but then didn’t get round to polishing it into actual blog posts. This post lists the highlights of the period TV shows I’ve seen in the last 18 months, with period…

As I already mentioned, I’ve been keeping track of the TV and film I’ve been watching, but then didn’t get round to polishing it into actual blog posts. There’s an index post that I’m still assembling and a handful of other posts that aren’t yet finished, plus a piece on…

Chalking up another 2 victims of the Tumblrpocalypse — Content note: This post includes suggestive images of adult male torsos. For several years now, I have run a Twitter and Tumblr account called Emergency Otter. It’s not pticly high-brow but it’s also not porn:

I wrote up some recommendations of what I’d watched in 2016 (Amazon, Netflix), so figured I might like to log my viewing habits better going forwards. And then didn’t get round to polishing it all into a blogpost. I’ve not included some of the more obvious stuff that doesn’t really…