The Last of The Gang To Die

http://englishcottage.tumblr.com/ The Strange Decline of The English Cottage is a documentary that is being made at the moment, for BBC4 about the old tradition of ‘cottaging’ in Britain. Men having sex with each other in public toilets. I found this article about the project delightfully ironic, as it mentions Miss Marple in relation to the [...]

Slash The President

I saw this fetching photo on Marbury’s blog: http://marbury.typepad.com/marbury/2010/10/george-and-barack-sitting-in-a-tree.html#comments …and my mind was filled with all sorts of  delectably disturbing ideas. Now I am well aware that eroticising power is not necessarily a revolutionary act, as Foucault warned me back in 1974 (‘Aren’t we witnessing beginnings of a re-eroticization of power, taken to a pathetic, [...]

Slash My Marx Up

When I first started to ask what is this thing the kids call ‘slash’? Oh not very long ago at all, many years after it emerged into the popular (sub)culture, I said I’d love to write some Karl Marx slash. I was trying to be clever, and suggest that I am no populist, no Potterist, [...]