Robert Elms

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Red Line Returns, Mystery Deepens

The mystery red line is back. And this time it’s tricksier than ever. The new piece of minimalist pavement art picks up where it left off, opposite the Novotel on Euston Road. (Camden Council must be apoplectic, after doing their best to erase the earlier …

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Has The Thin Red Line Mystery Been Solved?

Stretching from Euston Road to the Thames, the inscrutable red marking appeared a couple of months ago. Londonist was unable to get to the bottom of it, despite walking the entire route. BBC London TV also investigated, but were similarly baffled. Step up to the …

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Finally, A Decent Free Magazine

We like magazines. We like free things. So it stands to reason that we’d like free magazines. Or so you’d think. Ok, Vice was required reading for a while there, if only for the novelty value, but their conservative hipster schtick gets pretty old pretty …

Remembering The Groucho

Today’s Independent carries a feature on the (in)famous Groucho club. Subtitled 20 years of schmoozing and boozing, the article attempts to capture the allure of the media set’s favourite members club, so we get the ubiquitous ligger Keith Allen reminiscing about Moby playing the piano …