It was in the mid-1990s that I discovered I was the Antichrist. The insight into my true identity came in a letter from a Mrs McPherson,...

For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London. Part of my inheritance from the previous regime was a...

Back in 1978 the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti made a trip to the Pacific Northwest. Today it’s a quiet, sunny morning in August. I’m in a...

I watched the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics at my neighbour’s house. Part way through the ceremony I laughed and exclaimed: ‘Ha!...

A friend of mine recently joined a new inclusive Christian network, and wanted to know if I planned to sign up. He used the phrase...

My interest in politics started at the age of 11. The secondary school I attended in small-town Warwickshire marked the 1974 General...

Toddlers love books. Especially board books, with titles such as The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Eat Pizza . So it was that I found myself in a...

Are you religious? It’s a question the pollsters Gallup have been asking Americans since 1999 – and charting a slow decline in the...

Search online for ‘revenge fiction’ and you’ll find examples of novels in which a desire for revenge drives the plot: The Count of Monte...

In recent years drag has gone mainstream. Actually, it’s bigger than that. Drag has become all-conquering, ubiquitous, the performance...

Amid the endless coverage of this year’s Glastonbury Festival I came across this enigmatic nugget from Time Out magazine: ‘Dermot...

‘This above all: to thine own self be true.’ One of many lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that have become everyday English phrases. They...