My recently reissued 1980s novel Pure Mania is insane! Get it here: waterstones.com/book/pure-mani…

'Ultra-kitsch' documentary short about Murray's Cabaret Club from just a few years before my mother, Julia Callan, was working there alongside Christine Keeler. Currently free on BFI Player. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…

'Incredibly, the City of London is facilitating this hostile proposal by refusing to include policies in their new local plan draft that would protect the synagogue from such vandalism.' bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Departures from the stock market are expected as companies fail or are bought up. However, an increase in delistings could cause problems if they are not replaced, and only one company has joined Aim in 2024, after 10 joined in 2023. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Dirty tricks used to get demolition of Museum of London through planning.... reclaimec1.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/cit…

“Richard Drax should be giving us this land as reparations, not further enriching himself at the expense of Barbadians. As Barbadians, we must speak out against this.” thestkittsnevisobserver.com/drax-of-drax-h…

“The problem isn’t the tourists. It’s a model that was built around a business class that doesn’t want to listen to what needs to be done, and with a political class that serves that business class instead of serving all the citizens.” birminghammail.co.uk/travel/canary-…

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Michael Gove pauses plan to tear down Museum of London and mol.im/a/13319765 via Daily Mail Online

Many informants emphasised that their participation in masonry was not so much secret but performed with discretion; this being influenced by the negative portrayal of masonry in Italian society following the P2 scandal of the 1980s and 1990s... blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo…

I'm doing this panel talk in Paris with Karen Di Franco, Luis Juárez and Matt Plezieron on 19 May 2024: parisassbookfair.fr/en/programme/d…

Plans drawn up for the City of London Corporation feature 13 and 16-storey buildings on the London Wall West site on the edge of the Barbican estate. architectsjournal.co.uk/news/breaking-…

The City is the only local authority in the UK which has business as well as resident voters, a system described as a ‘sham’ by a former councillor and lawyer who worked in the area for 30 years. mylondon.news/news/zone-1-ne…

London Wall West highlights serious concerns about the custodianship of the built environment in the City as well as a flawed planning consultation process. It throws light on a system that appears to play with due process & ignores significant factors mylondon.news/news/zone-1-ne…

Anti-climax of my live art piece with Karen Strang at the art school in Dundee last night. It mashed up two Pete Horobin works from 1984 - Exchanges (which I collaborated on 40 years ago) and Fifeman - and reimagined them through the prism of the miners strike & witch trials.

Stewart Home Yes, really vital to keep the infrastructure of cash flowing as it cannot be tracked like plastic card transactions. Norway has the right idea and has made it illegal for cash to be refused in transactions.

Stewart Home official birthday photograph 1 April 2024. Birthday greetings are great but don't forget to SEND CA$H!

'The Victorian Society and 10 other amenity societies and heritage organisations believe that if these plans are approved it would set a terrible precedent which would mean that no listed building is safe from harm.' uk.news.yahoo.com/thousands-obje…

A trans commune in #Dalston (1979) hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/a-t… #TDOV