“While the UK Government wants to end youth violence by putting more police on the roads, there are entire neighbourhoods in north west London who are actually solving their problems from the ground up. Areas like Chalkhill hire out local venues to build businesses and write books together, week-by-week. And we’re doing it all with a fraction of the budget the Home Office uses to tell us to ‘put our knives down’ through chicken boxes… we’ll tell our own stories from now on.”

Authors of the Estate. Oct 26th.