A female teacher was found dead last week at her home in Accrington, Lancashire. The police have said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. Although the coroner is yet to release the cause of death Twitter and Facebook are awash with allegations of transphobic bullying from the mainstream...

This week people in white jackets from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have proposed we crack down on obesity by raising the price of fizzy drinks, banning junk food ads and taking the fat out of hospital food.

In a report issued by the Academy (who represent nearly every...

It's London Fashion Week - #LFW is trending on twitter, the BBC are pretending to have a clue what 'on the bias' means, everyone who's anyone is in the front row of something or other and I'm at home listening to Radio 4.

There used to be a time when...

Growing up in a council flat in Kentish Town in the mid-80s with a my bulimic single mum and a copy of Fat Is a Feminist Issue on the kitchen table meant I was a feminist before I could even walk. Mum wore the trousers, put food on the table...

When I set up a Tumblr account at the start of 2012, attempting to be 'cool', I found I only wanted to post pictures of Les Dawson, Hattie Jacques and Kenny Everett. I'm sometimes referred to as a performance artist and I'm known for provocative escapades with pasta sauce and...

It used to be that in order to get a job on the telly or in radio you had to speak the Queen's English. Now it seems Received Pronunciation is solely reserved for Radio 4. It wasn't always this way.

Since the very first BBC radio broadcast on 14 November...

Yesterday, 1 August, marked the launch of the 65th annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival in which 2,695 shows from 47 countries will show off in 279 make shift theatres, dodgy pubs & toilet cubicles across the city; but when you do the sums is it really worth it?

Everyone knows what...

Gay Pride is a day when people with peroxide blonde hair wear speedos whist blowing a whistle down Baker Street, an allocated day in the calendar you're allowed to be LGBT on the streets of London. But it was once much more than a celebration of rainbow flags made in...

I love Twitter and that's an unpopular statement. A lot of people who Tweet are what I call reluctant Tweeters who LOL about how boring their 140 characters are, which says a lot about their character, but I'm an avid fan and follower of the Church of Tweet.

The idea...

Two weeks ago, shop windows displaying flags somehow how aided our need for a Union Jack cushion. Now, shop fronts that were once plastered in red, white and blue bunting have gone back to the recession red sale signs, and with it our national pride has been safely put away...

The man in charge of the land of the free (not Donald Trump) rocked up to ABC News earlier this month and told America gay marriage should be legal. Earlier this week the leader of this great country had a spokesperson issue a statement declaring gay marriage was a government...

I write this, my first Huffington Post UK blog, sat in a bedroom full of Ikea furniture circa 1992 in the gay quarter of Manchester - this is what 'on tour' means in 2012. I've been making my directorial debut with Unhappy Birthday an immersive theatre show I've been working...