I came to my experiment in WWOOFing (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) half through bad luck and half through feeling more driven to think...
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Until I started this new position in the East End, I was fairly unaware of the tradition of radicalism within the Church of England —…
Once upon a time I lived in Bow, and out for a long wander up the Regent’s canal one day, I saw this: A wondrous…
There seem to be a multitude of reasons people start cooperatives, perhaps as many as there have been cooperatives themselves. I cast my memory back…
’tis a Trade founded in Fraud, born of Deceit, and nourished by Trick, Cheat, Wheedle, Forgeries, Falshoods, and all sorts of Delusions; Coining false News,…
In the aftermath of the murder of Michael Brown I wrote about Ferguson, a catharsis of feeling, a mourning for another life taken, a way to…
I knew it was going to be ugly, no one had tackled the shed for close to two decades. The last time I had looked…
Going through old boxes I just found the plans to the house my parents built. My dad called it the Nautilus house, I never knew…
I help teach a university class on the historical and cultural geographies of London, leading an hourly discussion a week based around someone else’s lectures….
I’ve been doing many kinds of waiting this past two months. The first has been a universal kind of waiting: waiting to see if someone…
The leak of 2m emails and other documents, mainly from the offshore haven of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has the potential to cause a…
That’s right, the world is full of brilliant madness. I personally spend a lot of time raging about how terrible things are. I try to…
I stole the title from Michel de Certeau, and this isn’t a how-to exactly, more of a how do we, how can we? These days…
It turns out that when you’re working on a PhD, it becomes THE project, THE challenge, THE alpha and omega and immensity of weight that…
Mat Johnson writes “I grew up a black boy who looked white. This was in a predominantly African-American neighborhood
On June 20th the Dalai Lama came to the London School of Economics to give a talk titled ‘Resisting Intolerance: an ethical and global challenge‘….
Great things have been claimed for the Olympics. Superlative things. They will be the ‘regeneration’ games, transforming East London, considered one of the poorest areas…
I am too far from Tucson now, thousands of miles away, but this place where I grew up is so deeply in my heart I…
It’s funny that I remember the L.A. riots clearly, but I don’t remember them when they happened in April 1992…not at all. I was in…
Asking me for the title of my favourite book is like asking a moth for its favourite flame. The fascination seems the same to me,…