that's not sleeping rough, that's camping in the middle of london. Sleeping rough is about not knowing where your next food or drink is coming from. Of never being able to rest because you know somoeone might piss on you or rob you or kick you or beat you up so badly you end up in hospital. Never being able to relax because you've never arrived, always in transit, it's like sitting in an airport waiting for a flight that never takes off and everything in the rip off restaurants airside is too expensive.

I would be more impressed if I didn't hear about it until long afterwards, if it came out that he'd long worked quietly to provide safe spaces and halfway houses for people coming off the street. After all it's not like he's short of a bob or two and can't afford to do something substantial.

Hell, Jamie Oliver did more than he did with 15, and he personally put over a million of his own money on the line to pay for it.


keep to the Fen Causeway