Yesterday was Rumble in the Jumble Part 2. A jumble sale I helped organise. It was quite different to your ordinary jumble sale, it was a fundraising event. Today I'm a frazzled heap of joy, though feel simply illuminated by the spirit,...

Oh my giddy aunt. Perhaps quite literally in fact, because it is the time for celebrated giddiness.
It's getting closer and closer and closer. Mind scramble? Good intentions and a hell of a lot of love to give, right? But what about the actual presents?

If you're feeling...

I write this in the glare of the spotlight that has once again been turned on last year's riots - almost one year on and with stark and scary truths tumbling into our brains from a new report commissioned by the Guardian and The London School of Economics -

I'm a Londoner get me outta here. If you're like me and sometimes find yourself, almost bleeding in love for a fantastical yet exhausting city, yearning to look out at nothing but a field or the sea? Then I have something for you. I recently took 23 people out of...