There's nothing good about smoking. There's no upside. I've smoked since my teens. I am an expert. I was addicted until Le Journaliste and I stepped on the plane at 6am this morning. Read more [...]

But the police speed up. So I speed faster. And they speed faster. I am trying to get in front of them so I can pull over. We are now travelling at 100km per hour: neck and neck. I am screaming at le journalist “what what” Finally I pass them and our hire car fishtails onto the roadside in a furious cloud of dust Read more [...]

Published in 1996 Push written by Sapphire was recently made into a film financed by Oprah Winfrey released in 2010 and subsequently nominated for three oscars. Previously Sapphire was a poet Read more [...]

I'm home alone this week. The journalist called from a payphone because she's tutoring on a residential course in Shropshire where there is no reception for the mobile. “If the pips go call Read more [...]

Right now it isn't insuperable to tell myself that not having a drink is pretty stupid. You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses. A good beer is good company. The assemblage of Read more [...]

Black people of south london were simply not welcome at the Royal Festival Hall. It wasn't as much said - that they were not welcome - but forcefully implied. Mia Morris tells me as much of Read more [...]

Tonight I am in Mayfair, the most expensive property on the monopoly board, just a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace at The Cavalry and Guards Club . Read more [...]

Eventually the queen pinned the MBE upon my chest and we spoke for a minute or two. Read more [...]

There’s a package from my publishers: an audio book of Sum, Tales From The Afterlives by David Eagleman. On the front it reads “You will not read a more dazzling book this year” Stephen Fry. And he's right. Read more [...]