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Swansea beach
Content warning for sexual assault
 • Rowan Davies
Whatever happened to Jennifer Lopez?
Nobble, nobble
 • Rowan Davies
I don't think about you at all
There’s a famous dunk in Mad Men in which some young dweeb in a plaid coat (I don’t know who he is, because I’d stopped watching Mad Men by this point…
 • Rowan Davies
The corporate theory of value
I seem to have accidentally retired at the grand age of 54 (thus becoming one of the 50--64-year-olds whose ‘economic inactivity’ forms part of the…
 • Rowan Davies
Bimbo eruption
SPOILER WARNING for Primary Colors (the novel and the film)
 • Rowan Davies
Enjoy yourself; it’s later than you think
When I was about 13, I overheard a piece of music in the background of a Radio 4 programme and found myself desperately needing to know what it was.
 • Rowan Davies
The Sound of the Suburbs
Johnny's upstairs in his bedroom sitting in the dark / Annoying the neighbours with his punk rock electric guitar
 • Tobias Sturt
Volume control
I’m writing a long-form piece about Mumsnet at the moment (more about that in a few months), so I’ve been thinking about my time there a lot.
 • Rowan Davies
Are we... the baddies?
Culture wars, racism, and single sex changing rooms
 • Rowan Davies
Watching 9/11
I’ve been on a thematic binge recently, watching and reading content related to 9/11.
 • Rowan Davies
That’s just, like, your opinion, man
A question of taste
 • Tobias Sturt
Dead Ringers
Back in the days when I used to work for Mumsnet, there was a specific tension that often made things extremely tricky.
 • Rowan Davies
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