Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology
My (highly attenuated) attention was recently directed to an LWT doc from 1981 available on YouTube . It compares the pre-war, pre-gay world of ‘sisters’… Read More »Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology
My (highly attenuated) attention was recently directed to an LWT doc from 1981 available on YouTube . It compares the pre-war, pre-gay world of ‘sisters’… Read More »Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology
Mark Simpson goes on a road trip connecting four countries: England, Scotland, the UK – & Yorkshire What’s so ‘Great’ about ‘The Great North Road’? Better… Read More »A1 Love – The Greatness of The Great North Road
We worship the body, watch ancient battles at the multiplex, and bow down before the gods of celebrity. Mark Simpson marvels at how much our… Read More »Apollo’s Acolytes
Why does the love story of Hadrian and Antinous seem so contemporary? Mark Simpson argues we’re all pagans now. (Originally appeared in the Independent on Sunday,… Read More »Antinous: The Very First Pop Idol
According to the Daily Telegraph’s front page, it’s ‘Sunset’ for the Senior Service: ‘Navy to cut its fleet by half’. The Navy that once ruled the… Read More »Union Street Blues: Plymouth’s Last ‘Run Ashore’?