Just because you or I don’t quite get the medium or the message doesn’t mean it isn’t artistic, writes David O'Mahony

The campaign to increase paternity leave from two to eight weeks is welcome but having had so little time with my newborn children, I'm not sure even eight weeks is enough

In all likelihood, I probably would have found my way into horror one way or another

Delving into Census 1926 could be profoundly rewarding for all of us

One writer I've come across has a dystopian trilogy finished, but says it will never see the light of day because all its twists about who runs the world have come true

I don’t think I had my daughter's level of confidence at seven. I don’t think I even have that level of confidence now

Techbros have always treated creativity as a problem that needs to be solved, as opposed to a celebration of individuality

My last-minute wedding speech won’t win any awards, but after nearly 15 years, one house, three children, and a cast of cats later, I guess it all worked out in the end.

None of us are who we were when we started out

Small people have their own way of interpreting the universe and, most of the time, it’s a lot more interesting than what we’ve collectively — if grudgingly — agreed constitutes adulthood