Author: Daniel Gaughan
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Paul Sykes – A Life of Chaos – Part 3
Crimes & Prison Time Wakefield Prison Despite Paul only being seventeen, he was “starred-up” and sent straight to an adult institution. Normally, only convicts aged twenty-one and over would be placed in these jails, so the teenager must have already caused concern for prison authorities. Nonetheless, was this the right placement for young Paul? Obviously,… Read more
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Paul Sykes – A Life of Chaos – Part 2
Wakefield & The Rise of its Most Notorious Thug Wakefield Wakefield, the West Yorkshire city where our story begins, and subsequently, where it will also end. I myself am a former inhabitant of Wakefield. I was born there in 1994 at Pinderfields Hospital, the same hospital where Paul Sykes died. I grew up in a… Read more
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Paul Sykes – A Life of Chaos
Introduction Paul Sykes, commonly referred to as “The Wildman of Wakefield”, somebody whose own mother was quoted as saying that if she’d been the presiding judge at one of his many trials, she would’ve let him hang. In his prime, he stood at six feet three inches tall, weighed over fifteen stone and had hands… Read more
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Ikigai – The Japanese Reason for Being
On the Japanese island of Okinawa, a mystical force has gifted its residents with extremely long lives. There are now 68 centenarians per 100,000 Okinawans, which is a miraculous statistic when compared with the entire UK having only 23. But how do these islanders consistently succeed in reaching 100 years of life? What miracle… Read more
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The Dangers of Social Media
What are the biggest social media platforms? Facebook. Instagram. Snapchat. TikTok. YouTube. WhatsApp. X. If you add together all the users of these behemoths, the amount totals to 12.13 billion as of 2024. Facebook alone has 3.05 billion users, which is about 1/3rd of the planet’s population. 1/3rd of the planet’s population plugged into its… Read more
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10 Tips for How to Defeat Depression
Depression. No matter who you are, no matter what your background, it can strike anyone at any stage in their life. You might think yourself impregnable to this illness: I’m happy – I have a house, a partner, a job I love – how could I ever be depressed? That would never be me. … Read more
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Afraid of Being Myself – The Lonely World of Social Anxiety
Social Anxiety in a Nutshell We all know what it’s like to give a presentation stood in front of a room full of people. All eyes on you – watching, judging. To return their gaze makes your skin crawl. To serve them a smile is almost impossible, lifting your lips is as heavy and difficult as pulling… Read more
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The Life of a Warehouse Operative
