Review: Princess Essex – The Globe
A good play that allows Odeke to promote the working-class and womanhood Anne Odeke’s Princess Essex opens with the staff of well-to-do Mrs Bugle…
Shaparak Khorsandi takes Scatterbrain on tour to Blackheath Halls this October
The comic talks to Eliza Frost about how ‘serious’ can be funny, changing culture and why this is her ‘most authentic’ show yet “Scatterbrain is the most…
Exploding Heads Present: Colin From Portsmouth
2024 will see the first live outing for two cult heroes with their fingers on the nation’s pulse: angry-about-everything Colin from Portsmouth and former-professional-footballer-turned-current-pundit…
From Borough Market to Hollywood
Can Jeff Goldblum Make Dreams Come True? Bebe Barry was born in Guy’s Hospital and grew up in Borough Market – The Wheatsheaf pub,…
Review: The Truth About Harry Beck – London Transport Museum
Harry Beck was a draughtsman in the Signalling Department at London Transport whose job it was to create diagrams that simplified electrical circuits, but…
Slippage at 198
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is staging a new exhibition ‘Slippage: the Caribbean in Flux’ with new bodies of work by four of the…
Dare to Cross the Devil’s Dancefloor
“We do not take the journey; the journey takes us.” This month sees the world premiere of The Ice at the End of the…
‘Elderly targeted on Eltham High Street with one woman having close to £2K in cash taken’
South London shoppers are ‘wary’ of using their high street because pickpockets are snatching phones and purses from locals on a regular basis. Residents…
New Labour MP refuses to give up his council seat
A new London MP will not be giving up his seat on a local council and will juggle both roles, though he’s said he…
Have you been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised cameras?
Drivers who have been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised enforcement cameras will have their penalties cancelled, Transport for London (TfL) has…
New Stories From Local Author
The flaws and greed of humanity are exposed Clare Colvin has a collection of her short stories out: Stone Children and Other Stories. The…
Cabinet Minister in Theatrical Debt
Pinero’s breathless farce is given a new life Sir Julian Twombley is in trouble: his wife and son have run up massive debts and…


















