“Why do you think you need to go?” my counsellor challenged me. Grenfell was still burning and I was heading straight there after my appointment with him. Perhaps a bit too much of me wanted to be useful and to try to fix it, a notion of which I was soon disabused by the significant…
My neighbourhood is on fire. What sticks in my mind? Waking up to the news that a huge building in my area is on fire? Realising that people have died and many more will be traumatised for life by their near escape? Realising that this building is right next to my old primary school and…
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” – William Morris When I grow up I’d like to be a polymath. I rediscovered this word at the William Morris Anarchy and Beauty exhibition because Morris, apparently, was one. Apparently he was also an “artist-craftsman, designer,…
Towards the end of last year, the head of the government’s historic child abuse inquiry was forced to step down because she was on ‘dinner party terms’ with an establishment figure whose actions she was mandated to scrutinize. At the time, I raised my eyes at the notion of being on ‘dinner party terms’ because…
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