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On the futility of male desire
The pathos of randy men
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James Harris
8
On personal failure
The complex legacy of things not panning out
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James Harris
29
Stewart Lee and the need to update your act
The challenges of keeping comedy fresh
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James Harris
9
The Friend Zone
Why we hate it so
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James Harris
On being broke
Life as an economic underachiever
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James Harris
2
Why do I feel like I've messed it all up?
The delusions and insights of regret
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James Harris
3
Why do people go to the right as they get older?
If they do, that is
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James Harris
15
Reflections on being called bald
On a Very Online insult
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James Harris
6
Everyone needs the odd free lunch
On the meanness of English public life
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James Harris
7
We need a safe space for straight male sexuality
Heterosexual men's desire is ordinary, boring and unshameful
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James Harris
8
Could we stop telling men they have no friends?
Male friendship as a human asset
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James Harris
The summer of four realizations
A quartet of insights
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James Harris
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