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Yes, hello? I’m here for the 37th final peace negotiation…
Almost exactly fifty years ago, on the 14 June 1976, a little-known event took place that surely did not change the world but impacted the local community around Primrose Hill in London. Tradition had always had it that the park surrounding the...
.............................................. 155 ACROSS 1 North London public park (8,4) 8 Sapiens (anag.) (7) 9 Recess in a wall (5) 10 ‘And yet, by heaven, I think my love as __ / As any she belied with false compare.’ (Sonnet 130)...
A Chorus of Ears: On ‘the voice of the poem’, Denise Riley, Picador, 2026, pp. 144, £12.99 When I could step into the shockingly open world I wasn’t sure where I ended, or where someone else began. This was a joyous state. – Denise Riley, ‘1948’
First, I have to be fair to all groups of users. The absence of comfortable benches might not worry those who come to exercise their dogs… but the many old people who like to sit in the park during the day might have a different view. Most of...
The pack instinct had stirred, and all the dogs were off the lead and running for the high road. Chances passed. Pivots cracked. The orcas started ramming boats and birds divebombed the strollers. All our founding narratives occurred in such a...
Although I had planned not to eat that day my will, apparently, was weak. By 4 pm, I was hungry; it didn’t take much for me to cave and buy a discounted rice bowl at the café downstairs before it closed. I’m not particularly observant, but I...