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Cholera Crusher: John Snow Anniversary Walks And Exhibition

Not the Channel 4 newsreader. He’s a ‘Jon’.

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The Saturday Strangeness

100. The old ones are the best… And so we’ve reached episode 100. It’s been a rewarding ride through the surreal, the quirky, the weird and the downright scary. Everyone loves a mystery, but they just don’t happen like they used to! And so, to …

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Yo Woe Woe

Santa made a rather unusual appearance in London today: outside the Zimbabwean Embassy in the Strand. Closer inspection revealed him to be a rather unpleasant doppelganger, Father Cholera, wearing a grotesque Mugabe face mask. This Father Nick doled out gifts alright – but they bore …

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Alternative Pub Crawls: Science

Monopoly pub crawl? Boring. Circle Line pub crawl? Banned. It’s high time someone developed a few new drinking tours around the capital. We started off with a sojourn around the variable boozers of London’s train stations. Our conclusion? Nice, grim, grim, oooo, not so grim, …