News·26th January 2017Pussyhat Grabs Back: Understanding the Fashion of the Women’s March on London Sarah Bochicchio On Saturday, 100,000 people took to Grosvenor Square, London—the location of the American embassy—to protest the inauguration of Donald J....Read More
Comment·2nd May 2016Goldsmith: He may be no BoJo, but is that a bad thing? Matt Burwood Most of the media coverage at this pivotal point in the London mayoral campaign has turned away from the policy...Read More
News·30th April 2016Palmyra’s Arch and Gateways Programme revealed in London A full-scale replica of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph was displayed in Trafalgar Square last week. The millennia old monument had...Read More
Life·3rd December 2015“I finally made it to the top”, and don’t we know it: Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, December 2nd 2015 David Parton ☆☆☆☆☆ Now I was never going to give Madonna anything less than a 5-star review. Even if she hadn’t turned...Read More
Entertainment·14th May 2015The ghost of London with Paul Cornell Paul Cornell has had a rather diverse career. He started out writing Doctor Who novels in the early nineties, and...Read More
Entertainment·24th July 2014Bearing all: Blake vs Paine In Lambeth Killian Troy ✮✮✮✮ Jack Shepherd’s imagination of a meeting between William Blake and Thomas Paine will be familiar to anyone who has...Read More
Entertainment·6th March 2014Strangers on a Train in a theatre Kieran Vaghela ✮✮✮✮ When reincarnating something as famous as Strangers on a Train, it can be easy to fall into the trap...Read More
Entertainment·17th January 2014Coriolanus generally commands the boards Fay Watson ✮✮✮✮ Josie Rouke’s recent production of Coriolanus at the Donmar Theatre revitalises Shakespeare’s political drama by presenting the audience with...Read More
Entertainment·4th October 2013Theatre O goodness – espionage and extremism in the The Secret Agent Penelope Cartwright For those unfamiliar with theatre O’s work, their productions may come of something as a shock. Certainly this was case for...Read More
Entertainment·9th February 2013Inside Gormley’s Model Merlin Seller Groping around in the dark, I’ve banged into a work of art again. To be fair, the work is all...Read More
Profile·24th October 2016Profile: Rosaline Ereira and the refugee crisis Last year in September, over 100,000 people marched through the streets of London for a rally in support of refugees....Read More
Comment·1st May 2016Is there still a place today for nationalist parties in multicultural London? Katie Holmes For me, London stands for multi-culture, diversity and respect. It is a city where 8.5 million people from 270 different...Read More
Entertainment·24th January 2016‘The Spaces Between Words’: fifty years of Pinter’s ‘Homecoming’ Clio Takas Just over 50 years ago Pinter’s The Homecoming opened at London’s Aldwych Theatre. After years of criticism for his absurdist...Read More
Entertainment·1st November 2015London for the Thrifty Thespian Alice Moore I was recently informed, by a bearded new acquaintance who was accompanying me on a late night walk through Leicester...Read More
Comment·13th August 2014Boris Johnson is Letting London Down. Jessy Parker Humphreys The announcement that Boris Johnson will stand as an MP for the 2015 election can have come as no surprise....Read More
Entertainment·24th April 2014‘Tis Pity is bloody good Eleanor Trend Cheek by Jowl know how to put on a show. The company’s exhilarating production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore...Read More
EntertainmentLife·22nd February 2014Taylor-ed to perfection Aimée Kwan In a world where there are more female artists than one can count, it takes more than just a good...Read More
Entertainment·7th October 2013Break the bubble, not bank Madeleine Perham You know how people queue for Abercrombie and Fitch, or the iPhone 5? I like to queue for theatre tickets....Read More
Entertainment·16th February 2013After images/blind spots Merlin Seller The hardest part of walking through the Hayward’s latest exhibition is reading the labels. After-images dance across your eyes, filling...Read More