The Maccabees have announced another show in the lead up to their upcoming farewell tour, which will raise funds for the MS Society. The announcement comes on World MS Day. The exclusive gig will take place at Omeara in London Bridge on Friday 16 June. It’s been organised by guitarists and brothers Felix and Hugo White whose mother had multiple sclerosis (MS) and passed away when they were teenagers. The band, who announced their split last August, are offering fans...

With change or revolution comes a breakdown in convention and relationships between things have to be re-established and new narratives invented. I get this from reading journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason’s Wtf is Eleni Haifa? inspired by Viginia Woolf’s argument with Arnold Bennett who believed that after WW1 writers could not author good novels because they could no longer create characters. Woolf of course argued against this notion and modern literature was born. It struck me after attending Belarus Free...

A song branding Theresa May a liar is on track to tip Justin Bieber off the top of the UK charts. Captain Ska's Liar Liar GE2017 came in at number three on Wednesday and is expected to gain a lot of traction in the lead up to the General Election. The track uses samples of speeches and interviews made by the Conservative Prime Minister with the chorus “She's a liar liar, you can't trust her, no, no, no”. The song has...

Brewed: Greenwich, London Strength: 4.5% ABV Founded at the turn of the millennium in a small flat in Greenwich by Brew Master Alastair Hook and some like minded friends, Meantime has since become one of the leading breweries in the British Craft Beer revolution. Having set up their state-of-the-art brewery in 2010, just a stones throw from the Prime Meridian, as well as opening The Tasting Rooms – a venue that offers the chance to tour, drink and shop in the company’s main brewery...

President Trump has decided to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord according to Axios. Two sources with direct knowledge of the decision leaked the information today, with details on how the withdrawal will be executed being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. A full, formal withdrawal could take up to three years, with the other option being to exit the underlying United Nations Treaty, which would be faster but more extreme. Given Donald Trumps record,...

Mentor Tashi kissed by sunset in the shala, built in the mountains of Amieira, Oleiros.     © Gareth Iwan Jones Where did I go? Vale De Moses, Portugal 1. My favourite yoga class involved no yoga. I am the most competitive yogi in the room. You think you’re competitive? I’m more competitive, I win. I’ll never reach enlightenment because I want to be the best and enlightened yogis aren’t running constant competitions in their heads. Expecting to learn how...

Millions of Brits are lacking basic kitchen skills – with one in five admitting they can’t boil an egg, a study has found. Instead of a perfectly cooked egg, a fifth admit they end up with yolks which are too hard-boiled to dip, whites which are still runny or even let the pan boil dry, resulting in burnt, black eggs. More than a quarter also struggle to cook rice while almost a third say they are unable to cut an...

Cheeky Jeremy Corbyn supporters are attempting to drum up votes by printing leaflets which say "Stormzy says vote Labour". The leaflet, handed out in Croydon, south London, claims the Tories hold 165 votes adding that "even you're dad's got more Facebook friends". It was shared by Labour activists thousands of times on social media but Labour campaign bosses say they were not involved in the creation or distribution of the flyer. Labour's Sarah Jones lost out on the Croydon Central...

A fish and chip van was completely gutted after it burst into flames. The Frying Squad mobile van went up in flames on a quiet residential street, leaving one man with minor burns. London Fire Brigade were called to the posh street in Wimbledon, south west London, just after 4pm on Friday, but the fire was under control within the hour. Photo credit: Beinn Muir London Ambulance Service said an ambulance and a Hazardous Area Response Team were sent to...