Man comes up to me mid-pirouette “Did you ever think about chi”? he asks. This random exchange is pretty usual for me during my Clyde-side dances. “Chi“? I reply removing my ipod earphones. “I mean, is that what they call it”? he continues waving his hands about to indicate ‘chi’, eager to share the secret. “Well it disappears once you pass the bridge over there… I had a neck problem and it just disappeared when I walked though here…” Ah another day on the Broomielaw – the

It’s time to focus on our youth. “We’re already too youth obsessed!” you might say, and rightly so. Except that I would argue that the mainstream (media) focus given to ‘youth’ is not about ‘being young’ at all, but more about being fast, sexy, unlined, unlived, and (to be honest) uninteresting. This is not youth this is Stepford Wives extension re-branded for a mass audience. I would hope that even those in the under-20 age bracket would see beyond, to live more, better and