If you don’t ‘take’ the Observer on a Sunday then you might have missed this article by Miranda Sawyer in the paper’s Sunday magazine. The piece was written to mark the twenty-year anniversary of the death of photojournalist David Hodge, who was fatally injured during …
George Galloway squared up to Labour’s Oona King in Bethnal Green this week in the first of what is bound to be a bruising series of clashes between the New Labour candidate and George’s Respect Party. When asked about the problem of drugs in the …
You can’t ignore a story which involves a drunken horse can you? Yes, we know it’s cruel and dangerous, but you have to admit that equine inebriation is a hell of an attention grabber. The horse in question belongs to the guards of the Household …
Normally the refreshment of choice for the more sedate members of society, Herbal Teas have been capturing new markets amongst London’s prison population. Apparently Wandsworth Prison has been dispensing cups of soothing herbal goodness for a few years now and other prisons such as Downview …
A quick TV tip for this evenings viewing is the BBCs Drugland showing on BBC2 at 9pm. Apparently it’s “an inside look at an industry that employs 20,000 people in London“, no, not the Sale Sign holding industry (though that is long overdue an expose), …
Disastrous news for those of us you who use blank taxi receipts to give yourselves the occasional bonus, as The Evening Standard reports that Mayor Ken wants to halt blank taxi receipts. Instead, Kuddly Ken wants to install machines in every cab which will print …
So the NME have finally put there money where their mouth is and named Pete Doherty as the “Cool Icon of 2004″. As you’d expect, the paper has already been accused of glamorising drug abuse by some, but to us that seems to be missing …
Any attempt to bring the noble sport of darts to the Olympics was probably set back eight years this morning through the publication of this Bloomberg report. BSkyB plans to charge viewers £9.95 to watch the two darts world champions — Andy Fordham of the …
It’s been a dispiriting morning for London, which has seen its reputation in two areas take a battering. First, Londoners’ reputation for lack of friendliness took a hammering when Elliott School in Putney won the Friends Reunited“School Friendship League Table”, and then London’s claim to …
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