The Observer

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As London Fashion Week struts onto the headlines catwalk, the debate over whether fashion models are too thin took another thrilling turn when Sasha Wilkins, fashion editor for The Observer Magazine, observed that, no, they weren’t too thin. However, on Saturday, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, …

A report by the London Asssembly into the response to the 7 July attacks is to be published today. John Tulloch, the man whose face became one of the iconic images of 7 July has written a book about his experiences. The Observer interviews him. …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Regular readers of this column know that I spent a lot of time in December and January pondering the lack of literary eventage in London. …

The Piccadilly Backpackers Hostel opened up its ‘POD dorms’ last week, and The Observer and The Telegraph sent along a couple of lucky souls to try it out. Despite the name, the pods have nothing to do with Apple or the London Eye; it’s more …

During the course of Editro threatening torture to my cats to get me to write this ‘perfect Sunday’ post, I was tempted to leave the entry blank. My perfect Sunday in London, after all, involves doing not very much at all. As someone in the …

On our way home on Friday, we did a silly thing. We bought the Evening Standard. As usual, we flicked through the ‘ES’ magazine and marvelled at how a publication that was once semi-decent, has been transfomed into a brochure for gormless vampire-like socialites and …

Something we didn’t have the time to comment on yesterday was the interview with Kate Hoey which appeared in Sunday’s Observer. Kate‘s been in the news a lot recently. Back in the summer her and her Lambeth council cohorts deprived London’s inhabitants of a riverside …

Result! The extensive archives of Stanley Kubrick will be housed at the University of the Arts as of next summer. The Observer reported over the weekend that the University will be building a new centre to house the vast collection (in Elephant & Castle no …

A break from the norm in this week’s Monday Music Review as we lead with a single review and eschew the normal full album reviews (mainly because we couldn’t bear to listen to the albums more than once and we have yet to reach a …