The Clerkenwell Kid

"It feels as if this rain will never stop"  you say, gazing out at a very damp London and feeling rather like one of the kids...

This week we have our last    Salon for the City  of the year at Westminster Library. We will be hearing all about Limehouse - the literar...

There has been a lot in the papers recently about how much food we waste.  Vast quantities are dumped daily by supermarkets, food chains a...

October 12th at 33 Fitzroy Square. How to die In London Antique Beat  have programmed an incredible day of Death and the City related...

"The Future's not what it used to be Mr Angel" says the mysterious Robert De Niro character in one of my favourite films and ...

--------------------------------------- Giant mute heads Sand-sinking into sun Gaze out still for ones Who will never now come* -----...

A little while back, I was asked to provide a mix-tape for The Voice of Cassandra radio show.  I confidently called it  The Most Beautiful T...

Death has rather been in the air of late.  Despite the sunshine that has finally blazed London in light and with Andy Murray radiating healt...

Sergey Chernov knocked on the battered door under the archway. We waited. A couple more knocks. Nothing.   Then, as we were discussing wha...

I've always found something fascinating about women in the sky.  It may have been an early fascination with the aviatrixes Amelia Earh...