Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History is memory; we have to remember what it is like to be a Roman, or a Jacobite or a Chartist or even - if we dare, and we should dare - a Nazi. History is not abstraction, it is the enemy of abstraction.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.