It’s becoming increasingly difficult watching the disaster unfold in New Orleans without getting angry at the mentality of the authorities who were ill prepared for this and those that have now armed themselves and are stopping aid and rescue workers from doing their jobs. It’s …
Isn’t it lovely weather today? Well, let’s hope it stays this nice for the rest of the week, as there’s pretty much bugger-all coming up on the idiot box, if you ignore Big Brother (Craig and Kinga in the hot tub is definitely not mind-safe, …
Art Fortnight London 2005 promises to involve a little bit of everything in the art world. Their press release boasts that Art Fortnight is “a major event in the art-world timetable….[and] it has organised a comprehensive and sophisticated cultural programme for visitors to the capital, …
There’s a report over at the BBC today which claims that 2005 will be a bumper year for tourists coming to London: Visitors from the EU rose from 5.7 million in 2003 to 6.5 million last year, while US visits rose from 2.6 million to …
If you thought the Islington flood was bad then just wait until all that polar ice melts and the world’s ecosystem goes to pot. It’ll take more than Thames Water to sort that mess out. The latest in eco-scares comes from the three-day international conference …
They’ll be talking about this one for years to come. Yesterday a water main burst on Upper Street turning the streets in the area into what the Standard described as “a mini-Venice”. According to reports people were trapped inside restaurants, bars and shops as “gallons” …
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