Michaël Smith
The Sheer, Unrelenting Horror of a First Trip to Westfield
I managed to ignore the existence of the Westfield shopping mall for my entire life, until the moment my computer broke and I needed an Apple store.
East London's Gentrification Has Left Me Behind
If things keep going the way they have been, I can forget about ever settling down in this city I've made my home for 20 years—a place to call my own is now a pipe dream.
Were 'Devil Worshipper' Yazidis There for the Birth of Human Culture?
As well as the attempted annihilation of an ethnic group, it’s also their religion IS want to destroy. One of the strangest survivals throughout the entirety of human culture, their faith has been viewed as so subversive and unsettling that it’s...
Remembering East London Before You Came and Ruined It
I watched Shoreditch go from magical hinterland to the abattoir of culture it is today.
