Speed Awareness Training
A few weeks ago we buried Richard. We loved Richard. The church service lasted nearly two hours as people stood...
Words
bulletins from the frontline of a London ministry
Fire and Brimstone in the Scottish Highlands
In late autumn, before we brought in our geraniums for the winter, my wife and I took the night train...
Summoned by Bells
I went to the Whitechapel Mosque on Saturday for a rally in support of the campaign to save the Whitechapel...
chat about silence
Recently I reviewed Unspeakable [paywall] by Harriet Shawcross for the FT which opens up that strange and disturbing vale of...
on the clapton commons map
This week High Vis jackets started appearing on Clapton Common as the hoardings went up around the long abandoned toilet...
six billboards on clapton common, hackney
A mayor, a bishop and a rabbi walk onto the site of the abandoned toilet block on Clapton Common ....
on being stalked
For the better part of the last decade I’ve had a stalker. In the beginning, when we were colleagues, I...
Poor Door in the City of London
Recently I received a turd through the post. It was a photograph of a pile of faeces at the entrance to...
Keep Taking the Juice
Richard is what you could call an “artisan Hackney juicer” – and the humble cucumber is his fruit of choice....
Accordion A & E
One day it was fine but then the next it started wheezing. First the top notes then even my middle...