This is a difficult post to write. I wasn’t going to but it’s easier to say it once than lots of times: unless something radically changes that makes things better, I just travelled to my last Formula E race. I’ll might be in London, given I live there but I’m…

Hello — like loads of people I will be alone this Christmas due to flipping Omicron, the worst ever Transformers baddie. I can’t really be motivated to buy or eat food on my own but also Christmas is a bit shit if you do anything other than cooking a big…

There’s no significant moral here. Except that if you’re feeling this way, too, you need some time off and some support and some help. Because you are probably like me, you are probably terrible at taking any of those and have already come up with ten reasons why it’s not…

What’s the point of writing an end of year list? Like what matters about the calendar ticking over, a decimal changing at the end of the date in dismal acknowledgement that another twelve months have slunk by like a guilty flatmate coming in from a one night stand with your…

[Content note: this piece is about suicidal ideation] If mental health was a CV, I have extensive experience with wanting to kill myself. I think I first started thinking about it twenty years ago and it’s always been there, a sexily alluring concept on the edge of temptation — like…

we regret to inform you that it is October I like to think I am quite well-prepared for chaos. I have an alarmingly chill reaction to disaster and can take events that might completely ruin someone else’s year in my stride as almost absentmindedly casual. It’s a mixed blessing because…

Life is weird and short, if anything’s weighed at the gates I hope it’s every weird obsession you ever tried to share Seb Patrick died yesterday. It’s still something I can’t believe I’m typing. It’s not real yet. He was a writer and journalist and podcaster and a thousand things…

If you’re not into motorsport — and frankly, who is these days — then you may not have heard of Lando Norris. If you know anyone who’s into motorsport, even if you’re not, you probably have, though. …

This is a piece about me visiting Riyadh, several times, for Formula E. Formula E is an electric racing series that says OK, boomer to 20th century petrolhead culture. I am a high-performing, self-absorbed diva who writes about cars for a living. Riyadh is the…