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
The Bees
Poetry: “The bees are going down, you know, it’s a well known fact / statistically but also purely / anecdotally, because the ground is suddenly / pebbled with the dead little things.”
Feeling Blue
Feeling Blue is an upcoming six-part sitcom and profound social commentary on depression and masculinity in the twenty-first century.
A reflection in glass
Fiction: “I mean, anyone who lives in monochrome might be so preoccupied, their mind curling with sepia-tone daydreams and heavy-lidded prayers.”