These columns were commissioned by The Big Issue, where they first appeared. Please buy a copy when you see it in the street. I’m always in there, chatting away. Not all my columns are here, so let me know if you’re after a particular one. Also, you’ll find headlines are different, because the editors at The Big Issue are much better at clever headlines than I will ever be.
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Change the emphasis
Look at everybody! Just look at them! Doing things. Saying things. Living their lives. Who are they all? What are they thinking? Don’t they realise you’re here? Right in front of them? Living your life, full of all the you things? Don’t they realise they’re background noise to all the things you’re dealing with? Can’t they see you dealing?
Happy New Year!
Happy new year! What a momentous occasion! What a time to reflect! What a meaningful yardstick against which to measure our hopes and dreams! What a fabulous time to make resolutions. Because tomorrow, everything is going to be better. We’re going to be smarter, and fitter and more morally upstanding. We’re going to be charming and attractive and rich and witty and correct. Everything before now has been a shambolic accident, a reckless mistake, or somebody else’s fault. None of that applies now. Nope! Not anymore. Now, we have better friends, smarter ideas, boundless resolve, and new notebooks in which to plan it all.