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Six Minutes to Midnight is on digital download and DVD from Lionsgate UK Now I know exactly what each of those sounds is. When I could, I decided to take lessons, which have calmed me down. It was mostly all the unexplainable noises that filled me with in-flight fear. I learned to fly 15 years ago, after a lifetime grappling with a crippling fear of flying. It’s more polite, I think, to say there’s nothing there. So either God doesn’t exist or it is a horrible entity. If there is a god, it would have stepped in when 60 million people were dying in the most awful ways during the Second World War. But running is an adventure, too, and shapes how I look at life: the hard parts are easier to get through when you remember there’ll be something great around the corner.

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We’re not built to watch TV and eat cake, but to stay at our prime. But someone has to stop the egotistical maniacs and liars. I do radical things with a moderate message and most moderates don’t go into politics because it’s bruising and an evil industry. I’ll run in the next general election, unless a byelection comes along, in which case I’m ready to go with 24 hours’ notice. Everyone just needs to calm down, relax, live and let live.īecoming an MP is still my goal. It’s better we go through this and arrive at a better place, rather than continue to stay hidden. Although we’re going through some “discussions” now, I’ll refrain from getting too acrimonious. There were trans people back when we lived in caves, just like there were gay and straight, progressives and bigots – the trans trajectory has been a millennia-long struggle. “Yes Eddie,” they say, “you told us last time.” I ask the assistants if they knew that as a teenager I’d nicked one. I still pop into that Boots and loudly announce I’ll be purchasing a lipstick. I’m gender fluid, so I spend my life in both boy mode and girl mode: I simply don’t neatly fit into either. To this day, trying to steal makeup from Boots in Bexhill as a teen is a badge of honour. I came out as trans at 23, but I’d known since I was five. Still, standup seemed a way out from sketch comedy and street performing and I worked hard before my next set, 18 months later, at a 20-seater vegetarian restaurant. “Chapter 2, Verse 1.17… Dear Corinthians.” After that, not a single thing I said got them chuckling. “St Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians,” I said. The first joke I told on stage, in the late 80s at a south London cabaret, got a laugh.