• Covelli’s Take: You Can Leave the Army, But Apparently, the Army Doesn’t Leave You.

    You can leave the Army. You can hand your kit back, hand in your MOD90, grow your hair, ok, this one doesn’t apply to me. You stop polishing your boots, start paying council tax and for this stuff called food and generally begin pretending to be a normal functioning member of society. But apparently, you…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Why Can’t We Judge Yesterday’s Entertainment by Yesterday’s Standards?

    Over the last decade or so I’ve noticed something, well, not just me but everyone has. Apparently, we’re expected to look back at everything we watched, listened to and laughed at thirty or forty years ago through the moral standards of 2026. I’m not entirely convinced that’s how history works. Now, before I get myself…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • 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