I work in a central city office, beside a major train station, so there are nearly always street preachers on the pavement. At the moment they are Christians, in the run up to Lent. But we also regularly get Muslims and Hare Krishnas. It doesn’t matter what denomination they are, they are just so repetitive. Whether it’s yelling the same series of slogans repeatedly. Or chanting continually. Or blasting readings of their sacred texts at full volume read out by an AI computer generated voice, whilst they stand there holding the speaker. Or playing a recording of a children’s choir singing one hymn, on loop. It is rare that we get a street preacher that actually preaches. Today’s preacher is ululating, through a megaphone, in between telling us that we will go to Hell. The PCSOs walking the beat here look so fed up. We have also had two competitive preachers trying to out megaphone each other. What motivates them to be so relentlessly repetitive, at such high decibels. On the occasion we get one that does talk a sermon the contrast is appreciated.