It's all kicking off in Royton

It's all kicking off in Royton

It’s fast approaching midnight and I’m sitting outside a precinct bar in Royton, watching two men engaged in a somewhat homoerotic embrace. They’ve only just met, but they appear to be telling each other how much they love each other, and there’s a lot of arm touching. This would usually be par for the course, but in this instance I have reasonable cause for concern: one of the men is my 25-year-old editor, Jack, and the other is a middle aged m…