If it’s a quiet night out at the theatre you’re after then you might be better off seeking out some other review, since The National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch is 110 minutes spent under near constant bombardment with mortars, IEDs and C-bombs.
Image / nic0 It isn’t likely to be a favoured city-break destination quite yet, but yesterday evening the first scheduled passenger jet in 20 years from Baghdad to London touched down at Gatwick airport. Iraqi Airways will run two flights per week between the two …
Image by Peep O’Daze from the Londonist Flickr pool He’s survived attempts to get rid of him before and had his protest reduced to a 3m square pitch, but now David Cameron’s planning to have another go at evicting Brian Haw. As we’re sure you …
Image by jamesdale10 Airline BMI is considering setting up a daily flight between London and the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. According to a report in the Financial Times, the carrier thinks the gradually improving security situation, and the country’s “desperate” need for investment, offers a great …
Nato pictures. Afghanistan and Iraq: good war, bad war? That’s the question posed by Lakhdar Brahimi at the London School of Economics tonight. Mid-way through this decade, the war in Afghanistan looked to have achieved a positive outcome, with a popular leader and relatively stable …
A 12ft Dick Cheney puppet helped War on Want protest today against US and British pressure to hand control of Iraq’s oil to UK corporations. Iraq’s oil minister, Husayn al-Shahristani, is in London on Monday. Image taken on Embankment by McTumshie.
Festival season embeds itself in our social life this week and makes a mockery of our diary – it’s all illegible scribblings, strike-throughs, and exclamation points. Whilst we attempt to sort ourselves out, let’s see what sense we can make of the week ahead in …
Honestly, what kind of topsy-turvy world is it where a man can’t keep for himself the spoils of war he half-inched on a foreign lark? That’s just what Boris Johnson is wondering. The mayor has been forced to hand over a cigar box that he …
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will today unveil a memorial to casualties of war often ignored by the general public: reporters, journalists, photographers and their attendant translators killed whilst working. The memorial, a glass and steel cone atop the new wing of Broadcasting House in …
When it comes to cons, John Wilmot, a City barrister, didn’t just go big, he went jumbo. He attempted to get £17.5 million in VAT repayments by claiming he bought and sold four Boeing 747 engines for £100 million. What a barrister would be doing …
We began this week with a great big gaping void: the very excellent London Word Festival has come to an end (though you can watch highlights here), and our nearly 40-day-long combination chocolate and carbon dioxide fast has left us, well, a bit snippy (we’ll …
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