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• The Trouble with Sam Smith

  

  Imagine the scene. An ante room in a horribly opulent Beverly Hills hotel. There are gaudy flower arrangements and vomit-print furnishings as far as the eye... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Kat and Nick

  Click through to read my review of what is an astounding – albeit very carefully controlled – car crash of a Guardian Blind Date. Includes the c-word, a... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Ollie and Ruairidh

  Click through for the full horror of this week’s Guardian Blind Date review. There are rom-com clichés, a ginger beard, inexplicable trips to the toilet and a... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• 14 Reasons Valentine’s Day is Actually a Good Thing

  

  Here we are again, then. 14th February. Hearts, flowers, huge ecologically destructive helium balloons, cheap chocolates, even cheaper sentiment and lager and... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Oli and Elspeth

  This week’s Guardian Blind Date contains a couple of medical students, one of the most tenuous comedy misunderstandings since Are You Being Served was cancelled... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• 13 Reasons We Hate Hookup Apps – and Why We’re Wrong

  We all love a good old whinge about dating apps, don’t we?As a gay man, especially, it can be very tempting to blame all society’s ills on them – be it an... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Leigham and Vincent

  Click as quickly as your arthritic knuckles will allow to read my weekly evisceration of the Guardian Blind Date duo.This week: gay men (again). They share food... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Ella and Matthew

  Click through to read this week’s review of the Guardian Blind Date, which features brunch appreciation, a little bit of insecurity and – spoiler – a little... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Broverload – Where Have All the Men Gone?

  The older a gay I become, the fewer straight men I tend to hang around with. It’s not a conscious uncoupling from my boob-loving brothers, but most of the ones ... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• The Straight Boy in the Cowshed

  Tallulah Bankhead, a famously hedonistic film star of yore once said, “They say it’s the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time”. And sh... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Alice and Joe

  Click through to read my review of this week’s Guardian Blind Date, which features two people in their mid-twenties totally wasting the gift of youth.Spoiler: Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Why “we All Knew!” is the Worst Thing to Say When Somebody Comes out

  

  Coming out – you never stop doing it, really. First you have to come out to yourself, which can take years and is, arguably, the hardest one of all. Then, if... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Sanjive and Jane

  

  Click on through to read this week’s review of the Guardian Blind Date.I’ll say only this:Oh, and you do NOT want to miss the Angela Lansbury video lurking... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• New Guardian Blind Date Review: Scott and Peter

  Oh yes, it’s gay men again!Click on through to read my review of this week’s Guardian Blind Date, which never really recovers from Peter turning up late. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• 27 Achievable New Year’s Resolutions for 2016

  On New Year’s Eve, as 2015 gasped and groped it’s way to its very own fag-end, I read a fairly comprehensive list of potential New Year’s resolutions for... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• How to Lose Touch on Social Media

  Like most people on social media, I have blinked and seen five years or more suddenly go by. Have I really known all these people that long, despite never... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• New Guardian Blind Date Review: Gavin and Aimee

  

  Click through to see my review of this week’s Guardian Blind Date. It’s an extra-special Christmas GIF-only bumper edition and features one of the biggest datin... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• 23 Signs You’re Dating a Christmas Fanatic

  As the song goes, Christmas is “the most wonderful time of the year”, but for many of us, it belongs in the last couple of weeks of December and exists purely a... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2015 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Alexandra and Raffaele

  Click through to read my review of this week’s Guardian Blind Date, which takes place in the romantic setting of London’s beautiful Somerset House and features... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• How to Look in the Mirror

  The thing about talking about ageing is there’s always somebody older than you ready and waiting to tell you it could be worse. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2015 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX