In a world where so many people are absolutely awful, live your life so you earn an obituary like this one.
Jimmy Cricket Guardian obituary by me: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Paul
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I make magazines, books and websites about the world of entertainment - mainly Doctor Who, pop stars and soaps. Swedish pop fan. Big gay. he/him 🌈
In a world where so many people are absolutely awful, live your life so you earn an obituary like this one.
Jimmy Cricket Guardian obituary by me: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
If you ever see me in that queue for Gordon’s wine bar at Embankment you will know I’m there against my will - please call the police.
Toothpaste pricing is one of the biggest, most rage-inducing cons of these absolutely fucked modern times.
“Special discount” 🤔
Contains a story in which someone phones me up to call me a “rat c**t”.
On BORING OLD GAY this week, I investigate my new gaybourhood, vow to never attend Brighton Pride again, and accidentally end up owing ten grand to a criminal in Manchester. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
Lewis Goodall should be pelted with tomatoes in the street for starting this discourse.
2. MAKE THE STARS GO TO SUNDERLAND ON A SPECIAL BUS.
1. MORE AIRBRUSHING OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
On BORING OLD GAY this week, I investigate my new gaybourhood, vow to never attend Brighton Pride again, and accidentally end up owing ten grand to a criminal in Manchester. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
1. MORE AIRBRUSHING OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
10 Things The Doctor Who Reboot MUST Do
I see Jonathan and Jennifer Hart have opened a shop together
How can we be living in a world where Blankety fucking Blank is too expensive to make?
I’m expecting a delivery today from a company called CURTAINS CURTAINS CURTAINS, can you guess what it is?
Special late-night edition of Boring Old Gay this week because I've been moving house, in which I'm I’m facing up to my Gü pot problem, searching for hot amateur Onslows and getting in the mood for to a gloriously gay night with The Fizz… open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
Hoarding, Hot Onslow and Hoiking Skirts
Boring Old Gay #8 – Don't Get Your Hopes Up…
open.substack.com
Special late-night edition of Boring Old Gay this week because I've been moving house, in which I'm I’m facing up to my Gü pot problem, searching for hot amateur Onslows and getting in the mood for to a gloriously gay night with The Fizz… open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
Hoarding, Hot Onslow and Hoiking Skirts
Boring Old Gay #8 – Don't Get Your Hopes Up…
open.substack.com
#OnThisDay 25 July 1973 in #CoronationStreet. Elsie Howard takes in the sights of London - Baker Street, Oxford Street, red double deckers, Pentonville Prison, and then gets knocked down by a black cab! 5 minutes of the episode is genuinely taken up with her silently walking!
This is what happens when you go to LONDON.
#OnThisDay 25 July 1973 in #CoronationStreet. Elsie Howard takes in the sights of London - Baker Street, Oxford Street, red double deckers, Pentonville Prison, and then gets knocked down by a black cab! 5 minutes of the episode is genuinely taken up with her silently walking!
Had to turn off the Heartstopper movie when I got to the bit where you find out Joe Locke is the top.
Checking things we need to do before moving out at the weekend and we’ve agreed we’re going to say we didn’t notice the bulb in the living room needed replacing because we’re gay so it never occurred to us to put the big light on.
Husband and I say this to each other on the daily.
What was it Muesli? What was it, muesli?
One thing I forgot to mention when writing about the hell that is renting in London in 2026 is that agents are now putting up AI-assisted pictures of properties. So misleading and should definitely be banned.
This week on BORING OLD GAY, I’m celebrating a boring infrastructure project, lamenting London’s rental market, admiring some truly terrible television titles and discovering that apparently my dog is too gay for one dickhead on a Lime bike… open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
If I was Prime Minister - and thank goodness I'm not, because I've been the length and breadth of Downing Street and never spotted a decent wool shop.
This week on BORING OLD GAY, I’m celebrating a boring infrastructure project, lamenting London’s rental market, admiring some truly terrible television titles and discovering that apparently my dog is too gay for one dickhead on a Lime bike… open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
This week on BORING OLD GAY, I’m celebrating a boring infrastructure project, lamenting London’s rental market, admiring some truly terrible television titles and discovering that apparently my dog is too gay for one dickhead on a Lime bike… open.substack.com/pub/boringol...
I’m moving next week so if anyone was thinking of getting me a housewarming gift…
Is there anything more boring on God’s green earth than listening to people wanging on about the process of buying or selling a house?