A way in
Writing
A way into the things I’ve written, rather than the whole lot. Start with a few selected pieces, browse by subject, or see the most recent longer posts.
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Selected writing
Hometown
Hometown 📷 A few years before I grew up here. The building on the right of the picture was “Rolie Clark’s sweet shop” as we kids knew it. It was actually a tobacconists and a …
My Cheese-o-meter
For the best sensation, please read this post at room temperature. Blessed are the cheesemakers. What’s so special about the cheesemakers? Well, obviously it’s not meant to …
Clear and obvious error
After watching and re-watching the same three-second clip of nothing happening for so long that here in the UK we had to put our clocks back another hour just to have enough time …
Person of Interest 101
The voicemail asked me to call 101 and quote my call reference number. It took three attempts to get through to a human being. I guess they really are all busy dealing with …
The World Cup on drugs: pure-grade heroin cut with shavings of Clive Tyldesley
If England’s game against Algeria had been a Wimbledon tennis match, the two sides would still be at it today with the Dutch Master Johan Cruyff declaring it the greatest example …
The art of a good sandwich
Let’s get something out of the way before we get into the meat, or the filling, of this post. A sandwich is two slices of bread. Buttered. I don’t want to hear anything about OPEN …
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Browse by subject
Six broad routes into the writing. The full category taxonomy — including formats, workflow labels and narrower subjects — remains available in the Archive.
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Recent longform
- Live at the Counter Eurovision '79
- Unsafe discharge and death by licorice
- Where You Been?
- From Antisemite to Anti-American
- Digging the Lost Tapes Restoration of Grimsby's No. 1 Band in 1996
- Peak Absurdity on the Ski School Run
- The Pied Piper of Ealing
- Perceval House W5: Where Local Democracy In Ealing Goes To Die
- Hometown
- Person of Interest 101