Richard Kirkland

I was on the Piccadilly line train in the second carriage on 7/7. Afterwards we formed a survivors group and this was our badge. I’ve lost touch with the friends I made from that group now — it was a difficult time for all of us — but they were great people and I often think about them.

The Life of Riley, Anthony Cronin.

Maybe a haiku?

Musketry doesn’t sound good.

Oh no. This is very sad news.

I'm pretty sure my contract also includes 20% admin.

Just to say I’m very pleased to see you on Bluesky. I missed your posts when I left X.

As Yeats wrote ‘This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.’

I don’t think you realize that obscure Canadian mathematicians are massive in Britain. My kids talk of little else.