Welcome to this week’s Londoner’s Diary. First, poet John Cooper Clarke tells us he’s given up writing poetry during lockdown and rails against ‘Johnny-come-lately’ bards. We visit the Freemasons new café in Covent Garden. Jodie Comer on having too many projects out at once. As Kabul falls to the Taliban, we recall some words from Tony Blair in Afghanistan in 2006. And one MP who won’t mind Parliament being recalled.
