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Dining Beyond Zone 1: Powder Keg Diplomacy

Colonial feasting in the conservatory with a cocktail or two…

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Review: Evolving English @ British Library

The first thing that hits you about this exhibition is ‘why the hell did it take them so long?’. A subject as fascinating as the history of our language would seem a no-brainer for an institution like the British Library. Indeed, nowhere else on Earth …

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London’s Best Chips: The Fox & Anchor, Clerkenwell

If like @LaLaLollyWood and @distella you bemoaned the inclusion of les frites Francaise in our search for London’s Best Chips, then maybe these will be a little more to your taste, since The Fox and Anchor near Smithfield market only does proper English (if you …

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Some London Children Speak Foreign Shock

Inner-city London: for hundreds of years the multi-cultural melting pot of communities from around the globe. It should hardly come as a surprise that English isn’t always the dominant language, yet for certain sections of the media it appears to. According to a study by …

Food-ography: Liquor

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