A word which has never, I expect, been said to us, or used to describe anything we did, anything we made, anything we laboured over.

My educational attainment is pretty good. My BMI, less so. I doubt my parents would describe me as "competent" at anything. 

I honestly think the note of letting self-doubt fuel you is entirely unplayable, entirely unusable, in any creative context.

If you let them come for your milk and say nothing, next they will come for your apples, and before you know it, they come for your freedom, your life, and no amount of bleating will stop them.

"And then I realised, geez, how dependent I have been on my cellphone. But I should confess, you know, after the first day, I felt liberated."

Here's to a 2026 filled with daily bread — the kind we bake for ourselves, with craft and sweat and discipline and love.

The thing I will always love about Tom Stoppard is his spectral hand in the script for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Interestingly, I have never yet met a woman who had a good word to say about Arrival.

You never know when you’ll read something that proves itself to be grimly, magnificently prophetic within your own lifetime.

Uh-oh... Should I have got my coat and bag from the locker and just left quietly...?

So many employers profess to value wellbeing — until it comes into conflict with the productivity which they value even more.

"If you're making a statement, artistically, then when you're making that statement, as far as you're concerned, it's an absolute."

Have you ever felt like a broken accordion sometimes?

Is Bruce Wayne, like so many of us, just plain lazy when it comes to matters of taste?

Maybe we all need to stop using the word “like” for good; maybe we need to retire it forcibly from the English language.

Quite possibly a total nightmare for stage managers — I do sympathise with them when faced with designs and designers like these.

Joy is currently failing me and I’m very aware that this is a dangerous, not to mention costly, headspace for a freelancer to find themselves in.

Does it really matter what accent an actor uses to play a character, or does it not?

The whole thing was not, in fact, about a young man on a boat in the middle of the ocean with a tiger and a zebra and a few other animals at all.

I’m doing my little bit to reclaim the concept of manual labour for myself and for creative people in a very literal (and literary) fashion.

What better way of challenging these unhelpful feelings than by taking my clothes off in front a room full of strangers?

In order to say yes to one thing, you have to say no to another. That’s how time is protected. That’s how the art gets made. But it starts with you, saying yes to yourself, for yourself.

One of the big surprises from the Enzo Mari exhibition was discovering the number of different ways Mari had ventured into the world of literature.

On a recent trip to London, we finally made it to the Design Museum so we could catch the exhibition of work by the Italian design legend Enzo Mari.

I don’t fall asleep easily, so for a good many years, I’ve listened to audiobooks and radio plays in bed — and now I’ve got an elasticated headphone band to make it a more comfortable experience.