Mark Simpson reviews some famous Victorian bum holes in Neil McKenna’s Fanny & Stella (the Independent) “I had never seen anything like it before… I do not in my practise ever remember to have seen such an appearance of the anus, as those of the prisoners presented.” So testified Dr Paul in shocked tones at the trial of …
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Harry Daley: A Beat Poet
Just finished reading This Small Cloud, a wonderful posthumously published memoir (as all the best ones are) by Harry Daley, a London copper in the early part of the 20th Century. Daley had a weakness, as you do, for young boxers and gangsters. And an intolerance for Mosely’s Blackshirts, whom many of his colleagues sympathised …