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 […]
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 […]
Falling demand for traditional East End food and drink options spells the end for many traders The East End is proudly associated with London’s working-class communities but in recent years gentrification, government infrastructure investment and other cultural and economic factors have transformed the demographic. Jellied eels and pie and mash are no longer so popular […]
The range of exciting new gadgets unveiled in the first month of the year is no surprise given the demand for all things new and fresh. The controversy surrounding 5G phones and mast transmissions still hasn’t died down and the black taxi protest over app-based cab services rages on. But by 2023 Londoners might soon […]
With over 2.27 million objects, the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington is recognised as a world leader in collections of applied and decorative arts and design, but did you know it also has the world’s first museum restaurant? Its three opulently decorated Victorian ‘Refreshment Rooms’ were built in the 1850s and 60s, timed to […]
North London-based artist Denise Wyllie approached her forthcoming exhibition in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia in a quintessentially English way to mark her return to the former Soviet state she first visited just after the fall of communism. The show will feature her rose prints inspired by visits to the David Austin Rose Gardens, Shropshire and be […]
Now in the last few weeks of autumn and with the festive season rearing it’s antlered head and the distant sound of sleigh bells ringing, you might be in danger of forgetting there’s an important season in between summer and winter that you just might have missed. Check out our London in Autumn feature. Poems […]
Is it poetry, theatre, or a booze-up in a bar? Well Oi Barman! is sort of all three, with spoken word artist Joshua Idehen sharing ancedotes from his ten years experience as a bartender and the overheard conversations in London’s cocktail bars and the antics of its diverse barflies. Just to get you into the […]
For most hesitant first-time joggers and keep-fit wannabes, autumn is when they are looking forward to the comforts of the countdown to the festive season and the even greater comfort of setting that New Year’s keep fit resolution. Yes, that same resolution they ditch two weeks into January. The best way to avoid that recurring […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
