by Christopher Waugh | Jan 2, 2012 | London Edition, One Shining Moment
If I think about what brought me to London in the first place, this road seems to weave its way through the whole analysis. The street that I walked down when I visited here fleetingly, on two occasions, from New Zealand and that taught me what it could be like to...
by Christopher Waugh | Oct 26, 2011 | London Edition, Sexualities
I’ve been involved with the fitness industry in one way or another for all of my adult life. I worked for many of these for Les Mills which is a gym company whose founder and namesake famously voted as Mayor of Auckland against council support for their...
by Christopher Waugh | Aug 10, 2011 | Life Journal, London Edition
Much is being made of the London riots this week, and as is often the case in these situations, the battle lines are being drawn. Inevitably these lines are forced to conform to our traditional dichotomies – the alarmist war metaphors proliferate. The class-war,...
by Christopher Waugh | Aug 9, 2011 | London Edition
Since I’m on holiday I’ve been thinking “I might get up, go to a café and have a leisurely breakfast out”, only, every morning I wake up and my Scottish genetics kick in and my mind goes “Porridge”. Then I wake up a little bit more and my rational mind says “Of course...
by Christopher Waugh | May 12, 2011 | Life Journal, London Edition
Okay. So now I live in an enormous european city that is home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of openly-gay men. This has made such a difference that it may never be possible for me to communicate the sense of relief in its true strength. It is not...
by Christopher Waugh | Jan 31, 2011 | Life Journal, London Edition
I have made it to forty. Long-term planning was once a real fad. Everyone was devising their 5, 10 or even 15 year plans and engineering the steps they would need to follow to get there. Unsurprisingly this created for many an equal-and-opposite reaction – in...
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