This week – The pilot light’s gone out… on the sun (Sunshine) and Will Ferrell goes iceskating (Blades of Glory). Don’t you hate it when the sun is going out and you have to go and reignite it? First up, Sunshine Bradshaw gives it 4/5, …
Vintage Banksy on Brick Lane, last summer and (inset) a few days ago. Spot the difference? Someone’s gone and half-inched his number. The BBC quote regular passer-by John Brophy: Every time I walk past it there is always someone taking photos of it. Everyone knows …
Tessa Jowell, like any avid gambler, feverishly hedged her bets with the House of Lords on Wednesday in efforts to push through her plans for a series of ‘supercasinos’ in Britain. Peers voted 123-120 against the measure that evening, despite Jowell’s last-ditch attempts at swaying …
The Times is running this as an exclusive: Scores of worried parents are buying body armour for their children in a desperate attempt to keep them safe as street violence escalates. A firm that supplies stab- and bullet-proof vests to government agencies around the world …
Just out the Van: Lights, Music, Words, Action – It’s Book Slam time again with Guatam Malkani, author of the Londonstani, Salena Godden, writer, singer, and raconteur, and Iman, winner of the National Music Award. This Thursday at Neighbourhood, 6.30pm till late, 12 Aclam Road, …
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 …
You’ve got to love a headline like this one: London backs £12m space mission Sadly we’re not going to set up a new borough on the moon (a day return to the Phantom Zone would cost a fortune and the shuttles don’t have Oyster readers …
Remember the spying rock that we interviewed? Well there’s been an upgrade: A council is set to use secret cameras hidden in baked beans tins to catch residents putting rubbish out on the wrong day. Ealing Council in London will also put the tiny CCTV …
It’s the last week or so to donate as much of Microsoft’s cash as we can to charity via their collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the ninemillion.org campaign: You can support the Click4theCause campaign whereby each time a user conducts …
Lots of stuff to get through today, but we’re starting small (sort of) with the immortalisation (sort of) of old favourite Tox as pictured above. Cheers to dr seagate for the link and photo. It’s not quite the Tate Modern, but it’s a (small) step …
(click for trailer) The first film from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong with Mac and PC in the lead roles and an all-British cast with the lovely Jessica Stevenson bringing up the rear. After the slightly disappointing “Hot Fuzz”, could this be the British film …
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