We mentioned this in our round up of summer gigs at the Southbank Centre but couldn’t let Riz MC’s rooftop party go unhyped as he remains one of our favourite EARs and we thought he did a wicked job in Shifty. Meet the man himself …
With Prue Leith – renowned cook, writer and Schools Food Trust honcho – at the head of the table, last night’s Obesity: The socio-economic impact of our bulging waistlines debate inevitably focused on school interventions: the uphill struggle against junk food and ceaseless efforts to …
Got strong opinions about the socio-economic impact of obesity? As part of the ongoing Ideas Exchange series of dinner/debates at Hoxton Apprentice training restaurant, restaurateur, caterer, TV cook, broadcaster and food writer Prue Leith will be on hand tonight to discuss and debate just that. …
Edzard Ernst will be choosing his words carefully at tonight’s Skeptics in the Pub meeting at the Penderel’s Oak. Only two days ago, over 200 people, including MPs, comedians and TV stars, crammed into this same basement for an ‘emergency meeting’ to support Simon Singh …
“All you Olympic sceptics will be Olympic maniacs by 2013.” Booo. “No we won’t!” Cheers. “Oh, I am confident you will.” Booo. Cheers. Such was the lively, almost pantomime atmosphere at the 9th State of London debate, which took place at the QEII conference centre …
Image not by the author, alas. We’ve covered Darwin and Henry VIII to death, but there’s another big anniversary coming up: forty years since the first moon landing in July 1969. Since Buzz and Neil took those historic steps, only five other manned craft have …
Wade into the white heat of intellectual combat this weekend: the 2008 Battle of Ideas erupts tomorrow at the Royal College of Art, with experts wielding their Socratic dialogue and Hegelian dialectics like broadswords swung by knights of old. We haven’t got nearly enough time …
This is pretty much a musical must if you’re free tomorrow night: a debate about hip hop and Islam, and where the two interface. Whether they should interface. Whether they are compatible. This will be a lively one, for sure. The Islamic music scene in …
It turns out that, contrary to popular media opinion, politics is alive and well with our great capital’s young. Last night we squeezed into the State of London Debate, an event at Central Hall Westminster hosted by Boris Johnson and his team. A ticket did …
Hooray for 4 day weeks! And hooray for many seasonal celebrations. If only it would stop raining we’d be radiant with joy. This week we definitely can’t afford to see the glorious New York City Ballet at the Coliseum (up to £95 a ticket!) so …
Feminists. They don’t shave their armpits and they bathe in toad spit and the pubic hairs of young boys. Right? Well, you could try asking that question at the European Feminist Summit, but we would advise against it. Part of the London Festival of Europe, …
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