May 19, 2017 | Men, relationships
When Lauren asked if she could kiss me, I instinctively said “no” and tagged another guy to take my place in the scene – a snog was far too ‘in your face’ for my liking, and definitely too intimate for happily married me. A couple of scenes later, I...
Mar 3, 2016 | Featured, Men
BBC3 Online recently released a powerful four minute documentary called “It’s Tough Being A Man”. It’s about depression in men and how men stay silent about it. I was happy to be one of the men filmed for this documentary because I strongly support the message that we...
May 18, 2015 | Featured, Men
Last month my best friends and I gathered around a TV set and watched ourselves die! Not literally, but our egos took a bashing as our shadows were paraded on Channel 4’s Cutting Edge documentary ‘The Secret Life of The Pub’. We were asked to reveal what’s...
Mar 29, 2015 | Featured, Men
I spent many hours chatting to ‘Newsweek’ journalist Finlay Young, even before he joined in one of our men’s groups. Fin had asked if he could meet up for help with a ‘Newsweek’ cover story article he’s writing. They quoted me, with a picture, plus wrote ‘The...
Feb 9, 2015 | Featured, Men, Uncategorized
Kenny D’Cruz was eight years old when his father took a phone call at his family home saying ‘we’re going to come and kill you tonight.’ “My father was declared an enemy of the state by Idi Amin’s Secret Service in 1972. He made a joke about the phone call” Kenny...
Mar 21, 2014 | Life purpose, Men, refugee, relationships
You are currently watching me lose my blogging virginity ..and I must admit, yet again, it’s a BIG relief! I remember walking home that morning through my adopted home town, past nosey neighbours with light breezes blowing wafts of sex from my pubescent skin...
Feb 3, 2014 | Featured, Life purpose, Men, refugee, relationships
2014 Nine years old and we’d just moved from our second refugee camp – with my secret-service escapee father, who had been absent for nine months – into our new home. A tatty council house in a small town in 70s rural Wales, with lovely neighbours. The feeling I...
