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CALL THE FASHION POLICE NOW!

I’m pretty clued up. I know what’s going on in quite a few fields – music, film, politics, geopolitics, social entrepreneurship, sport, literature, art. There’s only field that passes me by and always has done. Fashion. Thankfully there are not many pictures of me as...

LARRY ADLER COULD MAKE THAT THING TALK

One of the greatest days of my life was the day I got to play with Larry Adler, the greatest harmonica player there ever was. Larry was playing a benefit show for the Hackney Empire in 1993 and the Empire hosted a photocall to promote the show.  I loved the Empire....

BOY 31

Pinocchio had Jiminy Cricket to act as his conscience. I have a teenage girl and a little shoeless boy, as mine. It started with a call to the office from one of our ambulance service contacts: A teenage girl has fallen 13 floors from the stairwell in the tower block...

BALDRICK & I BRING DOWN THE GOVT

I was probably 13-14 years old and about to go through the same old Sunday night ritual, fighting my father about what time I had to go to bed.  As the eldest of five, I was always last up, but Dad had a nominal 9.30pm cutoff time assigned to me. This was a nuisance...