blog Archives - Chris Creegan

A letter to my sister, Rachael, at 60

27/10/2024

On human forms, your presence, first and always open smile; I cannot reach the memory or ease the space, of in between the cliffs and sky: the silence. From Untitled by David Annwn* It has taken me 16 years to write this letter. But you would have been 60 today and I could not let the moment […]

How I became an assisted dying advocate — and why Westminster Parliamentarians must stand up for choice at the end of life

29/11/2024

On balance the choice of an assisted death is probably not one I would make for myself. That may sound like a curious way for an advocate of assisted dying to start an article at such a moment. Contradictory even. But at its heart this is a debate about choice. And whatever choice I might […]

Ending new HIV transmission in the UK by 2030 is within our grasp — we must not fail

20/02/2025

The global consquences of the Trump adminsration's disengagement with HIV prevention could be lethal. In the UK we have the opportunity to write a different story. But there is no time to lose. During the terrifying onslaught of announcements from the Trump administration over the last few weeks, it has been his foreign policy interventions, […]

I couldn’t miss the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern

17/06/2025

I went to see the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt at the weekend. It was on display for four days only in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. I didn’t really have time to make the trip to London from Edinburgh where I live now. But I had to be there. For you. I knew that if […]

Every picture tells a story – a postcard from the past

10/07/2025

Lawrence Buckley 24th August 1957 - 10th July 1995 “I came across a cache of old photos… …cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves… And we were never holding back or worried that Time would come to an end” Being Boring, Pet Shop Boys I came across […]