• Covelli’s Take: Before TikTok dances, We Had Cadet Adventures.

    Do kids still go to Cadets? It’s a question I’ve genuinely found myself asking recently. Because when I think back to being a kid, being a Sea Cadet was a pretty big part of my life. Looking back now, I realise they gave me far more than I understood at the time. They gave me…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Can We Just Disagree Without Being Ar**holes? (Don’t worry, I’ve been One Too).

    I’ve been thinking about something lately, yeah, I do that on occasion, when did disagreeing with somebody or saying something slightly leaning one particular way or another become such a bloody problem? I’m not talking about serious disagreements necessarily. For the most part I’m talking about everyday stuff. Opinions. Preferences. Things that really shouldn’t matter…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Stop Remaking My Childhood.

    Over the last 15 years or so it’s looked like Hollywood has slowly been running out of ideas. Actually, that’s probably a little unfair. They haven’t necessarily run out of ideas. They’ve just apparently decided that coming up with a new one is far too risky when they can dig through my childhood, find something…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Trying to Find Employment at 50 — It Would Be Easier to Plait Fog.

    If someone had told me ten years ago that one day I’d be sitting at my home office desk, staring at a laptop desperately trying to convince an employer that I’m actually employable, I probably would have laughed. And yet here I am. Fifty years old, ok, 49 and ½ but you see what I’m…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: The New Football Season is Here & I’m Full of Hope. Again.

    After 35 tortures’ years of being a Spurs fan, I fully understand that what kills you, right before a ball is even kicked in anger, is hope. That’s what fools you. Every year, sometime around mid-August, it starts, that little feeling, that tiny voice in the back of your head that says: “Hang on… this…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli