You know we can’t resist something that a Conservative dismisses as a “socialist propaganda fest”. That’s the attitude of Angie Bray (leader of London’s Tories – one of the ones with the cute little caps aboard the Death Star) at the news that those two …
This week – A 14 year old James Bond, (Stormbreaker), Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn break up, (The Break-Up) and Garfield comes to the UK and finds himself in charge of a castle, (Garfield 2 ) First up, Stormbreaker. Peter Bradshaw gives it 3/5, dubbing …
Child poverty? Check. Melting icecaps? Check. Britney Spears and her “relentless fertility” ? Perhaps the issue doesn’t quite have the far-reaching consquences, but it has made its way to the top of Madame Tussaud’s agenda. The waxworks museum’s New York branch has launched a campaign …
Or at least it used to be, according to Charles Booth’s famous poverty maps from the end of the Victorian era. His maps show the haves and have-nots in glorious Technicolor; yellow for ‘Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy’; black for ‘Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal’. The …
We found this cryptic remark lying askew amongst the limited foliage of Bishops Square. That’s the recently opened public space and office/retail complex near Liverpool Street Station, which has attracted a particularly bohemian class of nimby. As you’re probably aware, the site nestles right up …
Sorry we’re late. We got held up on the Tube (one of our servers went down). 41% of all children in London are living in poverty. To try and combat this Ken Livingstone and the Association of London Government have today launched The London Child …
Two strikes, several picket lines and a 7 month campaign later, the House of Commons cleaners have secured a pay rise and new rights for themselves. Strikes were held before and after last year’s summer recess by the cleaners who were being paid below the …
Well, they did vote him in last May, after all. Yes, as every Londoner knows, the eleventh and most shocking entrant into the Celebrity Big Brother house is “Gorgeous” George Galloway, cigar-chomping scourge of the right, New Labour, journalists, Christopher Hitchens, and anyone who doesn’t …
Oh, top marks, Inwood. A new tome about the capital that (a) doesn’t have London in the title and (b) bears no sign of a foreword by Ackroyd/Sinclair. Something of a novelty. Inwood has tackled the capital before. His masterful 2000 work ‘A History of …
Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré London has been home to more double-acts than Great Yarmouth pier. Just off the top of the head, there’s Johnson & Boswell, the Adam Brothers, Holmes and Watson, the Krays, and recent North-London comedy duo Henry and Pires. Add to …
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