When the Floods Came

James Meek: England’s Water, 31 July 2008

... and the first person in Tewkesbury to die as a result of the floods, 19-year-old Mitchell Taylor, had drowned while taking a short cut past the abbey on his way home from the pub. Passers-by heard him yelling for help – he couldn’t swim – and tried in vain, via mobile phone and the 999 centre, to guide a helicopter to him. His body was found a ...

West End Vice

Alan Hollinghurst: Queer London, 8 May 2025

Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-59 
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 445 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 0 241 37060 5
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Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1960-67 
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 416 pp., £30, September 2024, 978 0 241 68370 5
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... homosexuality. Something close to a great replacement theory was embraced in 1958 by the Labour MP Frederick Bellenger, who said that if the ‘malignant canker … were allowed to grow, it would eventually kill off what is known as normal life’. During the second reading of the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons eight years later, the alarm is ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... to Javid’s political land-grab. Your browser does not support html5 video. Councillor Kim Taylor-Smith, deputy leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council from September 2017, is asked if the government has been helpful.Headlines seem like wisdom to those who rely on them. ‘Fire Victims Left in Lurch by Chaotic Relief Effort’, ‘Grenfell: The Net ...