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Brexit Arrives! We Look Back on British Protest With Photos
Posted in: Highlights Tags: Brexit, Brexit Day, EU, European Union, Jan 31

Britain left the EU on Jan 31. These photos show how the British public protested and supported the separation from the European Union.
London’s Waterside Dining Hot Spots
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Features, Food & Dining Tags: alfresco dining, Bankside, Bar, Bondi Green, cafe, canalside, Canary Wharf, Food, Little Venice, London waterside dining, May Green, pub, Regents Canal, Restaurant, riverside dining, South Bank, street food, summer dining, The Cheese Barge, The Grand Duchess British Shellfish Company, Vagabond Bar, West India Quay

London’s waterways will be the hottest spots in the capital for foodies in search of summer al fresco dining. Here’s a selection of canalside and riverside hang outs you’ll want to visit during our sunniest season. Get set for the June heatwave! LITTLE VENICE There’s some debate as to which of the great poets gave […]
From Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer: West Ham’s Historic Links With the Labour Party
Posted in: Features, People Tags: East London, Keir Hardie, Keir Starmer, Labour party, Newham, politics, Victorian East End, West Ham MP

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 […]
Claude Monet: London in Winter
Posted in: Features Tags: Art, Claude Monet

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 […]
A Portable Paradise (Book)
Posted in: Books, Reviews

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 […]
South Bank’s Brutalist Architecture in Photos
Posted in: Features, Photos Tags: architecture, Brutalism, Brutalist, Hayward Gallery, London architecture, London buildings, Purcell Rooms, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank

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 […]
A Closer Look At South Bank’s Brutalist Architecture
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Places, Videos Tags: architecture, Brutalism, Denys Lasdun, Festival of britain 1951, Hayward Galllery, National Theatre, Purcell Rooms, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, Southbank Centre

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 […]
Does 2020 Promise a Greener London?
Posted in: Features Tags: Climate, Electric buses, environment, nitrogen dioxide, Pollution, Sadiq Khan, ULEZ

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 […]
Cecil Court: From Flickers Alley to Booksellers’ Row [VIDEO]
Posted in: Books, Features, Galleries & Museums, Movies & TV Shows, Places, Videos Tags: Antiquarian, Books, Bookseller's Row, Bookshops, Cecil Court, Flickers Alley, leicester square, Literature, second-hand books

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 […]
Will the Festival of Brexit Divide the Nation or Succeed As a Unifying Showcase?
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions, Technology Tags: Brexit Festival of Britain, Festival of Britain, Great Exhibition 1851, South Bank

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 […]