Stephen Kearney – Columnist
He says he would prefer to be referred to as ‘some guy’

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Stephen Kearney – Keeping the home fires burning
Keeping the Home Fires Burning by Stephen Kearney Stephen Kearney discovers some strange variations on the meaning and practice of cultural integration – or lack of it............ I never truly appreciated the sheer size of London until I once flew in...
Stephen Kearney – Fleeing the Plague: My Flight from Coronavirus
Stephen Kearney describes how he had to run from home to seek sanctuary from the dreaded plague as total fear gripped the great city of London in the year of 2020 AD ................................................. Wednesday 25th March 2020 AD In some weird way as I...
Stephen Kearney’s article – My first Chinese
Stephen Kearney describes his trauma at having to face one of his life’s great terrors – eating foreign food!! ............... "Would you like a meal?” asked the manager, as I stood there on the work surface, tools in hand, my face streaked in cooking oil as I told...
Stephen Kearney – The day my universe changed
Stephen Kearney tells the tale of how the direction of his life changed totally and irrevocably – and for the better - in just one 30 second episode back in August 1968.................. It happened on a fine August day in 1968. I was waiting at a...
Stephen Kearney – Standing up
Stephen Kearney grew up knowing that he was weak; not a physical weakling as such, just weaker that than all the other boys. But he hid it well and long until he was outed at the age of 33................. At what stage do we develop self-perception? When do...
Stephen Kearney – The Melting Pot Boils Over – The revised version
Stephen Kearney tells his various tales of multi-ethnic lunacy from multi-ethnic south London. ............................ Art imitating life must be one of the hoariest old clichés around but even clichés must have to emerge from somewhere. ...
Stephen Kearney – Reflections on realignment of nations
Covid 19 dishes out its cruelties in unexpected ways. Stephen Kearney reflects on a precipitous fall in America’s worldwide status and how a little bug from the other side of the world gave it a big push in that (one way) direction............ ...
Stephen Kearney – When Nick Glegg came to town
Stephen Kearney describes what happened when Nick Clegg (who he?) came to his neighbourhood looking for Liberal Democratic votes during the 2010 general election............ When Nick Clegg Came to Town As the days to the 2010 general election were...
Stephen Kearney – Another Kind of Noise
Something woke up Stephen Kearney in the middle of the night. Yep, something went bump (off) in the night which woke him up but he didn’t know what it was. He knew the next morning, though – and it was pretty grizzly!!....... Living on a council...
Stephen Kearney – Confounding the conditioning
Confounding the Conditioning By Stephen Kearney Stephen Kearney grew up knowing that girls didn’t like him. He was just plain unattractive to the female of the species. He liked women alright, but they didn’t like him. It was just too bad, but that’s the hand he’d...
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