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My One Hundred and Fifty Minutes of Homelessness

I came home from work yesterday to find myself locked out of my house. I’d like to blame an evil money-grabbing landlord, I’d like to blame the council, the police, the state. I’d like to blame the man. But I can’t. The blame lies squarely at my door. The very door I found myself hammering [...]

Posted Under: Drinking,Poverty,Satire
This post was written by Salman Shaheen on August 10, 2010 Comments (5)

It’s time to reclaim the streets – from the paranoid and hypersensitive

A few days ago I was sitting on a bench in Marylebone reading a book. A middle aged man came up holding a can of beer and sat down on the other side. He then turned to and asked ‘Do you mind if I a open it?.’ Needless to say I agreed. But I was [...]

Posted Under: Puritanism
This post was written by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg on June 23, 2009 Comments (3)