My Mother’s 90th Birthday
It’s my mother’s 90th birthday today and we got her a smart phone. I set it up at home, slotted...
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the big wide world
Lord Glasman of Stamford Hill on Holocaust Memorial Day
On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz I visit Maurice Glasman and talk with him about what Holocaust...
Sebastian Cox, furniture maker and manifesto writer
In those fallow days between Christmas and New Year, as terrible news of fire and flood kept breaking into consciousness,...
The Boss of Bethnal Green by Julian Woodford
It’s a story of a political psychopath who won successive elections by persuading the electorate to vote against their...
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...
Accordion A & E
One day it was fine but then the next it started wheezing. First the top notes then even my middle...
The Preacher as a Young Boy
I was five and it involved two or three trips to London, to an artist’s studio in Holland Park. I...
Archbishop Justin, Warmonger
An article from the Observer, month of July, day the 25th. When I put myself forward for ordination within the...
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