Inside the world’s first museum of homelessness
I’m sitting in a small, cramped room with 20 other people staring at a stick. Not just any stick, mind:…
Are people with Alzheimer’s being denied justice?
My mother, aged 75, has advanced Alzheimer’s. This is heart-breaking enough – she is now at a stage where she…
What do Extinction Rebellion have against a free press?
One can only hope that the profound political thinkers of Extinction Rebellion took care not to dump cow manure on…
Brexit and gender are off limits for aspiring authors
When a small US publisher accepted my first book for young adults, ‘Crosstrack’, it wasn’t long before things went pear…
The tragedy behind every Covid death
On a grey January morning, at a small, sparsely attended ceremony in a chapel in North London, we said goodbye…
Can we stop with the VE Day moral relativism?
Fantastic news that the 75th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Europe will be a more sombre, sober affair…
People who don’t live in council houses can’t see the appeal. Let me explain
On turning 50, I realised I’d never own my own home. What bank would agree to give a mortgage to…
