Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer has emerged as a frontrunner to be the leader of a Labour Party that has experienced extraordinary swings in popularity in recent years. Many in the party hope that he will bring an end to this election see-sawing and present a unifying centrist mandate and show the electorate that Labour […]
No winter snow as yet and the icy January chill isn’t as biting as decades past, but it’s still time for the overcoats and woolies. It’s unlikely Britain will see the likes of the Big Freeze of 1963, with global warming now an established scientific fact but some of the great artists captured the spirit […]
British-Trinidadian poet Roger Robinson‘s winning of the £25,000 T.S. Eliot prize took the literary world by surprise. None of the London bookshops had a copy in stock a day after the announcement and there was a seven-day wait for the next order from the publishers. This apparent oversight is intriguing. He has an impressive pedigree […]
Love it or hate it, South Bank‘s iconic Brutalist architecture is an undoubted cultural favourite and a surefire hit with tourists. This landmark arts and culture centre has the prescence of a fortress or kingdom within itself; a cluster of landmark bulky, blocky buildings designed by avant-garde 1960s architects. And talking of fortresses, some of […]
It’s widely believed that South Bank’s blocky, futuristic design took shape as a construction project for the 1951 Festival of Britain which celebrated the nation’s arts, architecture and futuristic technology in the rebuilding of Britain after World War 2. However, that wasn’t the case. Newly-elected PM Winston Churchill hated many of the ideas around the […]
In 2019, the summer climate strike and Extinction Rebellion’s October protest brought global attention to the capital’s climate and environment concerns. With the headline-grabbing marches now over and the campaigners regrouping and rethinking strategy, the lull has given the rest of us time to consider what changes have been implemented and whether we can look […]
Just minutes from Leicester Square station you’ll find a Victorian alley which inspired Harry Potter’s Daigon Alley. It’s the little-known birthplace of British cinema and film businesses were based there from 1897. The Victorian shop fronts now display antiquarian and second-hand books and all manner of trinkets, curiosities and unusual services – from antique military […]
South Bank’s 1951 Festival of Britain may be the blueprint for a 2022 Festival of Britain and Northern Ireland Britain’s past Great Exhibitions were held as landmark events to showcase the nation’s arts and technology. The post-Brexit Festival of Britain and Northern Ireland planned for 2022 will be inevitably tied to the contentious EU referendum […]
Model Hedi Naimi prepares for London Fashion Week next month on a mission to not only shine in the fashion world, but help mend relations between her home country Iran and the UK. She talks to What’s Hot London? about the recent tension between Iran and the West, her experiences modelling in her country and […]
Some reports say the Harry and Meghan waxworks have been completely removed from Madame Tussauds now they have stepped down from Royal duties, others say they have just been moved a few feet away. There are even rumours they are in another room. So which is it? A Madame Tussaud’s spokesperson has confirmed they are […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
