In 2016 Will Self interviewed Stewart Lee about his work for the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/feb/26/will-self-meets-stewart-lee-are-you-really-ultimately-embittered-or-not Part of the purpose of the interview was to establish the extent to which the persona represented on stage, or at least parts of it, were a true representation of the actual Stewart Lee. ‘Are you really, ultimately embittered, or not?’ […]

Tony Adams was born in October 1966, a few months after England had won the World Cup, in Romford and grew up in Dagenham. He was a pupil at Hunters Hall Primary School from 1971 to 1978. By 1973 Adams had started playing football as a 6 year old on Hackney Marshes. He went to […]

In December 2017 Stewart Lee called out the generation of middle class iphone owning parents, and in particular the parents of the children who went to the same school as his own children, claiming that when they went to see the Christmas play the parents were more bothered about looking at Facebook than their children’s […]

Paris and London have always been two contrary peas in a pod. Contrary in that they represent the seats of two governments which have always sniffed their nose at each other a bit. But in the same pod because the denizens of both cities have recognized that they probably have more in common with their […]

London Housing   Brief History of Housing in the UK A summary of https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/24/history-british-housing-decade 1919 80% of people rented their homes, which meant 20% of people owned all the homes. The quality of private rented accommodation is shocking. The Prime Minister feels ashamed given the sacrifices made by British people during World War I. The Prime […]

Stewart Lee is a comedian who was bought up in the Midlands but has lived in Hackney, London, for quite a long time. He is pretty much a Londoner and incorporates quite a lot of London based references into his comedy. He doesn’t live too far from Jeremy Corbyn. Stewart Lee has a show running […]

Sleeping is the ultimate in personal self-care. To sleep is to give oneself permission to shut out the world and to spend the time required to self-repair and regroup. During sleep time the body self-repairing, it is regaining energy. It also allows the body and mind to process feelings and thoughts. Dreaming is a form […]

Idling in London What is Idling? Idling is the art of savoring and enjoying the wonder of life. I don’t mean the wonders of life, like food, drink and tourism. I mean the inherent enjoyment that comes from being, which can be experienced through meditation, perhaps prayer, reflection, relaxation, thought, writing, and certain types of […]