This year of all years I expected The Christmas Dinners for Care Leavers, which I set up in 2013, would be cancelled.  There was no way steering groups would  meet through winter,  week in week out, Read more [...]

The original tweet was from Sophia Alexandra Hall on Dec 15th. https://twitter.com/sophiassocials/status/1338885827804401664 On December 16th (today) it was tweeted by Sophie's friend   David Alfred Read more [...]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: THIS MATTER HAS BEEN RESOLVED WITH PAPERCHASE. A mother is on the phone looking at a child. The child is  staring at spilt milk on the table and floor.   The mother shouts on the Read more [...]

Each Christmas Dinner for care leavers is organised and run by people in the community where it is taking place. Lawyers, doctors, executive assistants, swimming instructors or unemployed meet to source Read more [...]

In September 2008 I embarked on a voyage to The Arctic with activist organisation Cape Farewell. It was  The Disko Bay Expedition. Over forty artists scientists and musicians were my shipmates. The motley Read more [...]

I can't reach out to all the people I know around the world - friends, family and  fans - in time so this is the best way.  On BBC World News channel this weekend  part one of two documentaries on my Read more [...]

There is no lockdown in the imagination. We dream in quarantine with no limitations. https://twitter.com/i/status/1303259002785103873 News Just in https://twitter.com/bbcstudios/status/1314514543402528769 Here's Read more [...]

https://youtu.be/-lRu9HC3_7o  "Hold Still"  launched today at The National Portrait Gallery online.   Here's my spotify playlist to go with it. You can create your own too. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JoL2ECIr4nxnw7k1e1vgY?si=e_0HCRBuSZ-ColrMfIOxrQ   Read more [...]

On  Thursday night  I was eating with Anna at Venerdi (it means Friday in Italian) on Chatsworth Road in Hackney.  The pavement table  was a  perfect match for enjoyable conversation and fantastic Read more [...]

My father  in Italy (above) and  on left   celebrating 24 years of Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa. And  below: "The first accident in the airlines 26 year history of schedule flights took the Read more [...]