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Sebastian Pender Leaning casually against a squat rack, professional fighter Pablo Benn shakes his head before telling me that the “Conservatives had their chance and they messed up. They’ve been messing up for years now. It’s lies, it’s all based ...

“I am willing to go to prison for the principle of privacy for all of us.” Muhammad Rabbani I WAS arbitrarily detained at an airport by UK police and asked to hand over the passwords to all my electronic devices. Not ...

Emdad Rahman We focus so much on the “homeless” part we forget the “people” bit… # TheWanderingLondoner TONIGHT AT THE soup kitchen we had a mixture of the kids and new volunteers stepping in, including Dr Mohammad Hassan from Queens Hospital, Romford, who ...

Emdad Rahman I DIDN’T expect to see many regulars today. Winter is different, and our homeless friends need to keep coming just to keep the big freeze at arms length. Stratford isn’t very friendly and we have a definite need ...

Emdad Rahman Maybe a home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst. It’s been a busy weekend for us. On Christmas Eve I visited Mujib’s Chill & Grill, who very generously agreed to donate 50% ...

Emdad Rahman Addiction – stress – domestic violence – mental health – broken relationships – grief – unemployment – despair. These are all very real catalysts for homelessness. It’s easy to forget that the homeless are people, people who have ...

Emdad Rahman It was a case of Chelsea and Scintilla Cricket club providing a sporting theme as our One Soup Kitchen hit the streets to enjoy our weekly catch up with London’s homeless citizens. The heavens had opened. It was ...

Emdad Rahman “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin. It was rainy, dark and bleak. The town centre was bustling though. My team Scintilla Cricket Club had taken on the soup ...

Emdad Rahman This week we had a special guest as Tom Parmenter from Sky News joined us at the soup kitchen at Stratford City. Apparently Owen Smith thinks he could eradicate homelessness within five years if he was to come ...

Emdad Rahman Former Liverpool player John Arne Riise was in London on the eve of the Club’s sellout clash with Barcelona at Wembley to talk about his distinguished seven years with one of the worlds greatest football sides. The event ...