‘Come come Mr Bond, you enjoy ecclesiastical managerialism as much as I do’

Wrote a piece about the technical centre of London: the weird world of Charing Cross the-fence.com/the-heart-of-t…

Our editor-at-large, Fergus Butler-Gallie, has spent far too much time at Charing Cross Station.

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Fergus Butler-Gallie That guy or Kathy Staff, who wore it better etc?

I drew a sleepy little terminus for Fergus’s article 😌
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Always had my doubts about this lot. It’s not even in the top 3 Celebrations in my opinion.

A British man goes to book his NHS appointment.

‘The soonest we can book you in is 2029’.

‘Morning or afternoon?’

‘What does it matter, it’s five years from now?’

‘I’ve booked a train ticket for the afternoon’

Delighted that Hodder & Stoughton and Avid Reader Press will be publishing the mighty Fergus Butler-Gallie’s new project. A shift toward history, and serious non-fiction, TWELVE CHURCHES is brilliant people’s history of Christianity through twelve astonishing places.

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Some news via The Bookseller this morning. Very excited to be embarking on this project with Hodder Non-Fiction in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US. It’s a huge privilege to be asked to bring alive the people and places that made and continue to make Christianity so fascinating.

Common Worship exorcism service just dropped.

On #WorldPoetryDay , Roger McGough tells of the inspiration for his touching and tragic poem The Identification - an interview with a bereaved father on BBC News in 1972. Watch, as Roger sees the footage for the first time in over 50 years.

Incredibly well written, moving and, frankly, terrifying piece here by the always excellent John Phipps web.archive.org/web/2024040508…

Someone’s been eating ‘Live Laugh Love’ fridge magnets again…