Mark Simpson's Subby

Confessions of a Back-Seat Driver

How being a passenger brings out my inner Mrs Bucket

Oct 3 • 

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September 2025

Lower Body Spay

Lynx's polymorphous perfumery kicks up a stink

Sep 11 • 

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August 2025

Saint Morrissey - A Love Story

Old pop crush finally requited, thirty years late

Aug 21 • 

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From Hipsterism to Hipsterisn't

All that's left of the hipster cat is his nose-tickling grin. Where did he go?

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

Adventures of a Male Dollybird

The strange life and times of Barry Evans

Jul 30 • 

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The Unbearable Boredom of Brokeback Mountain

Is there a support group for people who didn’t like "the gay cowboy movie"?

Jul 2 • 

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June 2025

A Tale of Two Johnsons

The weird, wacky, 'transformative' world of extreme pro spornos Brian & Bryan

Jun 30 • 

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The Mail's Spornosexual Shocker Update Updated

The final chapter. (Hopefully.)

Jun 10

Farewell, Edmund White

An ambivalent appreciation of the pioneering gay-lib scribbler who has gone to the big bath-house in the sky

Jun 6 • 

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May 2025

Daily Mail Spornosexual Shocker Update

Confused and Confusing 'Clarifications and Corrections'

May 14 • 

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Wrestling Over Olly's Body

The online 'buns-fight' over Mr Murs & the middle-aged spread of spornosexuality.

May 7 • 

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April 2025

"Here Come Those Tired Old Tits Again"

Over half a century on, has the blood finally drained from the "middle class kitchen sink drama" Sunday Bloody Sunday?

Apr 23 • 

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