BY ANDREW MOODY In the cab toward Trafalgar Square, several police cars zoom past us. It’s getting dark. “Something’s kicked off,” I say. “An accident,” the cab driver says. We drive on for a few minutes until we pass a car overturned in the road, sectioned off by the police. “Jesus,” I say. I haven’t… Read More High & Dry in London
BY ANDREW MOODY Yesterday was the 76th anniversary of the D Day landings. I have been on the Ward since last November, before that, in the Unit in Glasgow since last August. This is the longest stretch I’ve done since I started in on the psych game aged 19 in 2002. One of the patients… Read More Thoughts from Lockdown
BY IAN (Outreach Worker, Tiverton) The initial results of a survey by the UCL Collaborative Centre for Inclusion Health reveal the coronavirus death rate of homeless people living in London’s hostels is 25 times higher than the general adult population. It found that 38% of hostels in the capital had suspected Covid-19 cases, with 41%… Read More Homeless Hit Hard by Coronavirus
BY ANDREW MOODY The first time I was homeless, I openly slept in parks in East London, dehydrated and exhausted from sleep deprivation. The second time I was homeless, that wasn’t an option: I’d have been murdered. Once you’ve been homeless enough times, you have to be streetwise, or else you’re dead. Luckily for me… Read More Down & Out in London
