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By shimmeringmercury The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance figures sees the Saatchi Gallery trump the national big boys for special exhibition popularity. ‘The Revolution Continues’ was the 28th most visited art exhibition in the world in 2009, whilst that and ‘Unveiled: New Art …

Photo / dannybirchall Do you live in the borough of Lambeth? Do you find yourself in a daily struggle to control the bubbling rage that seeps from beneath your very pores, causing you to erupt in an incandescent torrent at the slightest provocation? You may …

Photo by Matt from London So you think that women are more sympathetic to rape victims than men? You’d be wrong. It turns out that a surprising 75% of women polled in a recent survey say victims should take some responsibility depending on the circumstances. …

Image courtesy of parl under a Creative Commons Attribution licence There’s a bit of confusion on the crime statistics front, particularly that perennial favourite, knife crime. National figures for last summer show a jump of 18% in knife crime, but the Met are claiming a …

Is officially the most crowded train in London. Well, the most crowded train in London that’s been measured by the Department for Transport. Well done, that man, for counting heads at Surbiton when all those poor, rammed together, suburban commuters just wanted to get the …

On the day a research report confirms what we’ve been resigned to for yonks, that 2 in 5 of us are priced out of first time homeowning in our capital, a news report about empty council houses in Lambeth Council rubs salt in our renter’s …

Is London starting to look like an episode of “When Dogs Attack”? According to recent NHS statistics, the number of attack victims under 18 seeking emergency treatment has more than doubled in our city over the past four years. So what’s being blamed for this …