Kingston
The glory of Jamaican music
Abandoned in infancy, Alex Wheatle grew up in children’s homes, but found salvation in roots reggae – and, eventually, his father in Jamaica
The cult of Holy Bob
The Harder They Come, Jamaica’s first (and still finest) home-grown film, was released in 1972 with the local singer Jimmy…
Send in the street pastors
Heroic volunteers are bringing down crime in cities across Britain
Without a word of advice, Paul Methuen set me free
At the time he will barely have noticed me. In his mid-forties and (to me at 18) middle-aged, he was…
Madness in the ghetto
There are many more than seven killings in this ironically titled novel — in fact very long — that starts…
