Graham of Anywhere

the self-centric blog of a perpetually single gay guy in London

Graham's blog: politics, poetry, and introspection

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Sunday 15 January 2012 2:25PM

Glasgow and 9 year old Graham

Now, I've long been convinced that the City of Edinburgh Council is run my muppets, but new evidence has come to light that show the Glasgow City Council are indeed no better. Somehow, as a result, my…
Monday 2 January 2012 9:53PM

Death Cab - The New Year

I still love this track.

I wish the world was flat like the old days
And I could travel just by folding the map
No more airplanes or speed trains or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold…
Saturday 29 October 2011 10:35PM

Scotland, England, random thoughts on the UK

The United Kingdom. Born 1707.

When I was young, I identified as Scottish. As I grew up, I increasingly identified as British too. British second, but British nonetheless. I think, as you grow older,…
Thursday 25 August 2011 11:32PM

Edinburgh trams fiasco; the new Edinburgh's Disgrace

Today we witnessed the latest in a long line of terrible decisions on the Edinburgh tram project. In an astoundingly short-sighted move, Labour and the Conservatives conspired to save their seats by voting…
Saturday 6 August 2011 3:12PM

Belonging

I've never really found the motivation to build this place or to blog here. I guess it fails to rank on the ole priority scale. Maybe one day it'll grow in significance. In the mean time, I'll use this…
Friday 15 October 2010 8:48PM

The nights are fair drawing in

This is my first entry on GGH.co. All that's gone prior has been written on QueerAttitude.com, the domain I bought just over 9 years ago. QA started life as a place for me to speak out, following my initial…
Tuesday 4 May 2010 6:27PM

Voting Labour

Who, then, is prepared to look at the plain facts when choosing who to vote for in the UK General Election this Thursday?

Of course, the facts look very different from varying standpoints and everyone…
Thursday 3 December 2009 10:52PM

The Final Battle

Over in America, each of the states, as United as they stand, is forging its own way through the divisive issue of gay marriage. A relentless struggle between progressive civil rights and old fashioned…
Saturday 5 September 2009 8:26PM

Music and Film / World Events

Today I watched two films, both of which used music to create a soundtrack equally as important as the visuals, in turn to produce something really quite good. Both of these films, incidentally, are movies…
Friday 21 August 2009 8:09PM

The release of al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber

So, a couple of days back, the Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, agreed to release the Libyan national Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi who was convicted in 2001 for the mass murder of 270 innocent…
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