Iqbal Khan lets his guard down
“These words, ‘sacred’ and ‘reverent’, they ossify the imagination.”
Two Tributes to David Bowie
David Bowie bound together everyone who didn’t fit in, every unique and rebellious misfit or exile, and gave us hope.
Human wrongs in Geneva
Numerous underground nuclear shelters are now being used to house Geneva’s asylum seekers, out of sight and public knowledge.
Flat whites on Bellenden Road
“Since 2008.” Rammie, who owns a shop and fruit stand under the arches on Rye Lane, gives me a precise timeframe for when Peckham’s property prices became an issue.
Nombrilisme: Thoughts on the Belly-Button
‘Nombrilisme’ (masculine noun, French): an attitude of self-absorption, when a person believes that everything revolves around or relates back to them ‘Se prendre pour le nombril du monde’: to consider oneself as the centre of the world. In his short story The Apologizer, Milan Kundera’s p