Flâneur

Weaponised Kindness & the Language of the Cult

For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London. Part of my inheritance from the previous regime was a...

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Back in 1978 the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti made a trip to the Pacific Northwest. Today it’s a quiet, sunny morning in August. I’m in a...

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I watched the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics at my neighbour’s house. Part way through the ceremony I laughed and exclaimed: ‘Ha!...

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A friend of mine recently joined a new inclusive Christian network, and wanted to know if I planned to sign up. He used the phrase...

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My interest in politics started at the age of 11. The secondary school I attended in small-town Warwickshire marked the 1974 General...

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Toddlers love books. Especially board books, with titles such as The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Eat Pizza . So it was that I found myself in a...

I’m Mike Starkey, a London-based writer and ordained Anglican minister.

Flâneur is notes on culture and ideas, beliefs and unbeliefs, joys and disenchantments.

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