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Jinny Blom: Why We All Need Somewhere to Hide

July 30, 2026

Jinny Blom is one of Britain's leading landscape designers. She has created over 700 gardens – and each one begins, in some way, with a search for security.Jinny trained as a psychologist and psychotherapist, working for many years in mental health, before a prophetic dream prompted her to devote herself to her lifelong interest in natural landscapes and gardens.Since then, Jinny has created spaces that promote the relationship between nature and health – from her sky garden at Chelsea and We...

Poet Jackie Kay on Adoption, Identity and the Long Search for Belonging

July 23, 2026

Jackie Kay is an acclaimed poet and novelist, who was previously the national poet of Scotland – a role known as the Makar. She’s the author of Red Dust Road, a memoir that chronicles a twenty-year search for her birth parents.Jackie was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple and grew up in suburban Glasgow. Throughout her life, she's had to explore questions of identity, belonging and family – themes that run through some of the most celebrated writing of the past forty years.  In this...

Phin Harper: How a Breakup Helped Me Find Home

July 16, 2026

Architecture critic and writer Phineas Harper believes that good design and heritage belong to all of us. Phin lives on Vanbrugh Park, a post-war council estate in Greenwich designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, the architects behind the Barbican. It's a home that completely reflects Phin’s ethos: architecture doesn’t have to be fancy to enrich our lives.Phin is deeply woven into the fabric of the neighbourhood. Together with their neighbours, they've transformed neglected corners of the es...