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La fête
This weekend, it felt like almost every young Black Londoner was in Paris.
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Avoidance as a lifestyle
Last Tuesday, I crunched along a gravel path in Central London and emerged into a neatly manicured garden, filled with well-dressed people.
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The queue
As one ages, an assortment of furious, oddly specific opinions beginning to form.
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Not out of office, but not in it either
A note: I’m on annual leave from my main job this week to finish the big project I keep talking about, so I’m taking a week off from The Chaff too.
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May 2025

Skyline To
I write this from the seventh floor of a central Glasgow hotel.
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busy
I woke up at 5.40am this morning and when I padded into the kitchen of my current dwelling, the sun was already bright.
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Change
With bonus essay on why I left Glasgow
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Late!
As is polite, just a heads up that this week’s Substack will be a day or two late, due to other deadlines.
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Better off alone
“But don’t you worry about it?” they said. “Being left alone?”
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April 2025

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