Football doesn't need more technology, it needs to put an end to referee-blaming culture. That was the sentiment behind Sean Cole's argument in When Saturday Comes which pointed to a lack of perspective about football as the reason why VAR is slowly creeping in to the game. As a former referee it is one that I can wholeheartedly get in board with. In my view, unless you have been shouted at for 90 minutes from a sideline in a local park you can't...

Crowds of people got together with their dachshunds in Cornwall

Hundreds of mourners have turned out to pay their respects to an RAF veteran who died without any family. Fears were raised that Kenneth White, 84, would have no one to honour his death after he passed away with no known relatives. But after an appeal for people to attend was posted on social media hundreds are expected to give the former airman a fitting send-off. His coffin was escorted by 150 motorcycles to Cambridge crematorium this morning (mon) ahead...

Launched by best friends Dan Benjamins and Chef John Holland, The Habit opened its second restaurant last year. At the South London Gallery in Camberwell, The Habit’s second site continues to serve seasonally-led menus comprising simple, clean flavours, with a prominent focus on local ingredients. Coffee beans, for instance, are sourced from Peckham roaster Old Spike, meat is sourced from Peckham butchers Flock & Herd, and Nunhead fishmonger FC Soper supplies the restaurant’s fish. From the evening menu’s ‘For the...

"It can be hard for people on the Left to admit that our movement has a problem with bigotry", Abi Wilkinson wrote in the Telegraph at the height of the last anti-semitism smear waged against Jeremy Corbyn's Labour in 2016. It is true that as politic's "good guys" those of a left-leaning persuasion are used to thinking of themselves as the people who stand with the oppressed against the architects of their oppression. Notions of equality and liberalism tend to out-trump anything resembling prejudice,...

London's congestion charge has increased deadly diesel pollution by a fifth putting inhabitants at a higher risk of severe lung and respiratory problems, scientists warned. The charge, introduced by Ken Livingstone in 2003 for peak time traffic, reduced some forms of pollution such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter and nitrous oxide. But it has had the unintended consequence of increasing more damaging forms of pollution - nitrogen dioxide (No2) emissions because of the increase in diesel buses and taxis, In...

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination on 4 April, Neil Davey takes a trip to Alabama, a key US state in the Civil Rights Movement.   Shall we get the obvious out of the way first? Because, yes, Alabama does not have the best reputation of the American states. In fact, it’s almost become shorthand for a particular type of American attitude, with a foot in some of the more disturbing aspects of American history. However,...

by Pat Levy Namibia, rarely featuring in news headlines, is a peaceful, settled country that finally shook off the blinkers of apartheid in 1990, and transitioned into constitutional democracy. 11 hours flight time with one stop, and a two hour time difference with the UK makes it a temping destination for the safari holiday you always promised yourself. For its size, the population is tiny and lives largely in urban areas, leaving vast desert-like tracts for small farmers with a...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 21-year-old man who was fatally stabbed at a shopping centre in London, last week. The Met police said the 22-year-old man was arrested yesterday (24 March) and remains in custody at a south London police station. Police were called last Tuesday (20 March) at 09:30pm to reports of a disturbance in Stratford Centre. Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service and found a 21-year-old man...