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This is a long essay I wrote back in the Noughties about my path to Buddhism. I think when I wrote it I was still practising Theravadan...

“Karma does not decay like external things, or even become inoperative. It cannot be destroyed by time, fire, or water. Its power will...

It’s been an amazing Summer in Sussex for wildflowers. It may be because I’m usually away filming in July and August and this year I’ve...

Belle & Sebastian Simon had free tickets, so we went to the B&S gig at the Astoria. Heard their first album in Berlin, years ago. But to...

THE GAY MESSIAH IS COMING A title sure to agitate all the rabid Republican Americans out there who froth and fulminate each time I so...

I thought I’d missed seeing David Byrne in London and then last week I thought ‘fuck it, I WILL see my teenage hero’, so I sniffed out a...

Went with Rachel to the Anish Kapoor show at the Royal Academy. It’s worth a pilgrimage and I use this word advisedly because there is...

John Ashbery died. Aged 90,which is a fine innings, and in the arms of his husband – so all-in-all from the outside, not tragic. And if...

I don’t have many heroes. The Dalai Lama perhaps. Yo-Yo Ma, he’s pretty amazing. Aung Sun Su Kyi. But Sir Simon Rattle is up there...

This article was written in response to several emails I received from young men around the world who had read an interview I gave to Gay...

Just been to see Black Sun, a visionary documentary film by Gary Tarn. Though “documentary film” doesn’t really do it justice. It’s more...

HOLY ISLAND 2005 Zang, a handsome young South African, had been in charge of Holy Island when I’d first visited there 5 years ago and for...

Talking this afternoon over a hamburger freshly cooked on the barbeque with Jez and Tom who both were at University with me, it struck us...

I thought I’d missed seeing David Byrne in London and then last week I thought ‘fuck it, I WILL see my teenage hero’, so I sniffed out a...