• 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

  • Covelli’s Take: Grunge Fashion Is Back and the Kardashians Won’t Like It (But 80’s Madonna will).

    I never thought I’d see the day. Honestly. After years of watching social media convince entire generations that everyone needed perfect teeth, perfect hair, perfect skin and enough cosmetic enhancements to make them look as though they’d been assembled in a factory, I thought we’d reached the point of no return. Then I started to…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Nobody Trusts the News Anymore.

    I remember when the six o’clock news was exactly that. The six o’clock news. We sat down, usually after our dinner, with the express instructions from dad to be seen and not heard, God forbid we spoke during what dad classed as the most important hour of the day, I thought that was Grange Hill…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli

  • Covelli’s Take: Sun’s Out, Brits Go Crazy, And We’ve Already Run Out of Rain.

    When I was a kid, it felt like a British summer lasted well, all summer. OK, three of those weeks were usually spent wearing a jumper and the rest consisted of every adult within a five-mile radius insisting that you “make the most of it because it’ll be gone by next week.” And they were…

    Domenico Valentino Covelli