Welcome To Portsoken
First published in the Observer Sunday 1 June The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Fiona Woolf, hosted a conference in her official residence...
Comfort Asiamah And Her Absent Children
From the desk of the Hackney Preacher A photograph of Comfort Asiamah, top left, with members of her family in...
Armistice Day In Abney Park Cemetery
from the desk of the Hackney Preacher Grief needs ritual acts of public commemoration where our painful memories are shared...
Hasan, Firework Salesman
from the desk of the Hackney Preacher On Ascension Day I like to let off three big ones from the...
Saint Jude’s Day, An “Act of God”
While the preacher’s parish was still turning in its sleep, Jude was whipping up a storm: scudding tiles, skyborne...
Hazel Walcott, Champion For Black History Month
I learned a lot of history at school growing up in Jamaica, about Christopher Columbus and about Captain Cook and...