Category: News

The BBC has a "Magazine" feature on Confrontation Culture – the apparently peculiarly British phenomenon of public shouting matches: It's an everyday scene. I'm in a supermarket and without explanation or apparent provocation, there's...

From the "you couldn't make it up" department (this is from yesterday, but I've just remembered that I meant to blog it …) Armchair hooligans face ban at domestic matches – Britain – Times...

Pickled Politics � Al Qaeda in Trojan elephant shocker A humorous write-up of this weekend's London attraction: a huge mechanical elephant which paraded down various London streets, squirting spectators with water (at least I...

The BBC reports on a spate of attacks by racist thugs on non-whites of all types in Russia, including local Roma and foreign students and other visitors, which included the stabbing to death of...

The BBC is reporting that an Egyptian student, applying at the US embassy in London for a visa to work at Camp America, was told that he would have to undergo additional security tests...

The Guardian reports on a restaurant in London (not a halal one) which has a novel way of sorting out customers who order large amounts of food and then leave it on the plate...

In today’s Guardian, Marcel Berlins approves of Jacques Chirac’s walk-out from the opening session of the EU spring summit last week, prompted by a speech in English by the French leader of the EU...

One of the biggest news stories of the past week was the acquittal of Siôn Jenkins ([1], [2]) during his third trial for the murder of his foster-daughter, Billie-Jo Jenkins (from an unrelated Jenkins...

Joan Smith had an article in this Tuesday's Evening Standard in which she claimed that the "real face of the militant fathers' rights movement", best known for its Superman stunts up cranes and the...

The big news story this morning was the release by a judge yesterday of a set of pictures showing a group of youths beating up a homeless man on the South Bank of the...

I'm sure everybody has heard of the bottlenose whale which swam up the river Thames as far as Battersea (south-west of the city centre) on Friday before being moved aboard a barge and taken...

A rather sensational study which was trumpeted all over the news yesterday, claiming that ten million girls had been lost over the last 20 years due to abortion and plain murder by families who...

This morning on the BBC London morning talk show, the main topic of conversation is a report that the habit of professional footballers to spit on the pitch is being copied by young people...

With the ongoing saga of the ongoing troubles on the Northern or "Misery" Line (caused by the drivers' unions' refusal to drive unsafe trains), I just thought I'd point out a letter in tonight's...

I heard it reported on the breakfast talk show yesterday (when I was too tired to blog but got up to write them an email) that the Routemaster bus is finally disappearing from the...

Today I was back driving vans, delivering fixtures and fittings for an Asian food company from south London up to town for an exhibition. There’s a shortage of petrol stations on the main road,...

It’s time for a break from the London bombings and the bickering which has ensued. Famine has returned to Africa – this time to the mid-west African state of Niger, a desert and semi-desert...