In a month that sees the 75th birthday of the Dalai Lama, the Tibet Film Festival returns to London for it’s third year – once again celebrating the art, culture and heritage of a country that has been famously struggling to regain independence from Chinese …
While Chinese New Year celebrations went on yesterday, a rather less happy public gathering was taking place outside the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place. Five members of a Free Tibet protest group were arrested after vaulting the barriers in an attempt to approach Chinese Premier …
Square Pie are celebrating the Olympics in Beijing the only way they know how: by baking special square pies. To mark the games in China, the current Pie of the Month is the Olym-pie special which is not a fawning, deep-fill, sweet and sour bird’s …
One of the enthusiastic Olympic buses by Orhan. The Olympic Torch Relay is all over the news this morning for the wrong reasons as far as the organisers and host country are concerned. Was the police presence over egged or was security not tight enough? …
Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been stuffing your faces with kedgeree, hot cross bunnies and eggy-weggies: There has been a huge march for Tibet in central London. Red Ken is awfully-Green-Ken these days, and he’s pretty pissed off with the government’s apathy …
Tell us something we didn’t know: London is the most expensive city to live in worldwide, according to UBS research. Pro-Tibet protesters target British Museum’s First Emperor exhibit. Heathrow to charge drivers £20 to drop off passengers if sixth terminal proposal is approved. In other …
This is what we have learned whilst you have been out buying Easter eggs whilst silently cursing the commerciality of it all: It’s been a weekend of protests and marches, ranging from the serious: a prayer vigil for Tibet and the Stop the War Coalition, …
Richard Scudamore of the Premier League has not been the most popular footballing figure of the last few weeks. The executives overseeing football in favoured destinations for his plan of playing Premier League matches abroad, such as China, Thailand and the USA, have lined up …
As we predicted last week, amidst the South African media’s prophecies of doom, the Mandela Challenge Match against Egypt will indeed go ahead next Wednesday, 15th November at Brentford’s Griffin Park with a 7:45pm kick off. Brentford now formally acknowledge the fixture and organisers Star …
The big wheel keeps on turning On a simple line day by day The earth spins on its axis One man struggle to write the Midweek Music News introduction while working out his taxes So wrote Massive Attack about the struggle to keep up Londonist …
