Ending HIV transmission in the UK by 2030 is within our grasp — we must not failIt’s World AIDS Day again. For those of us who lived, loved and lost through the 1980s and 1990s, it is an opportunity to recall the lives…Dec 1Dec 1
How I became an assisted dying advocate — and why Westminster Parliamentarians must stand up for…On balance the choice of an assisted death is probably not one I would make for myself. That may sound like a curious way for an advocate…Nov 26Nov 26
‘You and me together, fighting for our love’How Bronski Beat’s The Age of Consent defined an era and why it endures 40 years onOct 17Oct 17
Sixty-three down: memories of birthdays past — and the long road to DundeeToday is my 63rd birthday. Age comes increasingly quickly it seems.Mar 121Mar 121
Equal marriage: the time for debate is over — in 2024 we must kick-start progress to shore up hard…When (if ever) is it reasonable to argue that the debate is over? As 2022 ended, this was a question with which I had long grappled. And…Dec 31, 2023Dec 31, 2023
On the death of a remarkable woman — in memory of Marie BuckleyScarcely anyone reading this will have heard of Marie Buckley, who has died, let alone known her. Yet she was, by any measure, a…Dec 21, 2023Dec 21, 2023
How Scotland can beat stigma and end HIV transmission by 2030 — and why we must‘What one can see is the present, the dimension of landscape which is in front of us now. But now is shaped by the past, backed by it, as…Dec 1, 2023Dec 1, 2023
My mother and me: on making sense of lifetimes lived and the one I never hadMy mother and me, Pitlochry, 1998Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023
