Fire! Fire! Set phones to vibrate. It’s sex education via text message. Ups and downs in the London housing market. You pretend not to care, but you do really. Jennifer Ellison returns to the West End. You genuinely don’t care. More Tube strikes look likely. …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th August 1937: Barbara Windsor is born in Shoreditch in central London. She would achieve fame as an actress, notably as a ‘saucy strumpet’ in the Carry On films of the 60s and 70s and later as a …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 11. Marmite And Socialism Who feels comfortable about talking politics? The people that I know fall into two categories… Some people don’t really feel comfortable talking …
Fresh this Week: Amr Gharbeia and Hari Kunzru consider the internet as a space for free expression and censorship at this event tonight. Amr Gharbeia is a leading Egyptian blogger, currently facing a legal campaign to block his website along with other blogs and human …
Free music is where it’s at. Fact. But free music combined with a campaign against racism gets a nice fat thumbs up from us. This weekend sees the annual Rise festival hit London and this time round it’s going two days. If you’re over on …
As a wise man once said, “Bloody hell, it’s Soft Cell!” Well, actually, it’s not Soft Cell. It’s just Marc Almond solo. And the man wasn’t all that wise. It was Alan Partridge. Either way, though, Monday gives you a chance to see Marc Almond …
This is a new weekend column brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 4. Doublethink The Big Brother silly season has started and this year it seems to have cut straight to the controversy in record time. …
First there was the Surrey puma, and then there was the Shooters Hill Cheetah. The millennium brought us the Beast of Bexley, and now almost every borough seems to have its own salivating, Baskerville-esque so-called “beast”. This week has seen the second sighting in as …
Now that Cedric’s had a chance to recover from the awfully big excitement of the Clissold Park windfall, our regeneration rabbit is about to go hippety hoppety flop eared over news that Silvertown Quays has had the go ahead from Newham. This means that there …
Recently, Robert Mugabe hasn’t done much to live up to his British knighthood. He did provide us with one of our very favourite websites (loving the clipart animated flag, keep up the good work) but even that can’t make up for the 3000% inflation, the …
Noel Gallagher yesterday did an about face on the reacharound he gave Tony Blair ten years ago and said that the PM hadn’t quite lived up to expectations. Isn’t it nice when the musical establishment has its finger pressed so hard on the political pulse …
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