Author
Fergus Butler-Gallie
8 articles
Fergus Butler-Gallie is a writer and Anglican priest. His books include A Field Guide to the English Clergy and Touching Cloth, a memoir of life as a young curate. He won the P.G. Wodehouse Society essay prize, which seems about right.
Articles
Czech in, Cash out
Fergus Butler-Gallie seeks bodily and monetary cleanliness.
16 December 2025
A Professional Service
A visit to the oldest undertakers in London, who have been in operation since the Battle of Trafalgar.
25 November 2024
The Heart of the City
Our editor-at-large has spent far too much time at Charing Cross station. So much time that he now argues it's 'the heart of London'.
11 April 2024
Goblin Mode
Our editor-at-large tries to buy a new friend.
23 May 2023
The Worst Bar in London?
Nights out in Chelsea are nothing like TV.
23 May 2021
At the Altar of Capital
How the Conservative Party lost their religion to the pull of the market.
12 January 2021
London Train Stations as Serial Killers
A conceit upon the history of our rail service.
23 February 2020
Diary of an Urban Parson: Rev. Refreshed
Excerpts from the prayer-journal of the Rev J.J Cowan MA (Oxon), Vicar of St Ewolds, Stoke Newington.
1 February 2020