About

"Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneur; to be very rich, to be very poor, to possess a thousand mistresses, to win the heart of one love to whom he was ever faithful, to be on the best of terms with all men, to avenge savagely the lightest affront."

Kenny Hodgart is a journalist from Scotland who currently lives in Hong Kong. He bears no resemblance whatsoever to Trapnel. He has written for the Herald, the Sunday Herald, the Times, the South China Morning Post, Spiked, Tatler, the BBC online and sundry other newspapers, magazines and websites.

N.B This website carries only a small selection of my output as a journalist. You may also notice that the entries which have been published elsewhere outnumber exclusive "blog" entries. This is not merely because of laziness: unlike many with blogs and personal websites I am wedded to the idea of writing for a living.