A Ghost Story: Film Review
Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP A Ghost Story follows Casey Affleck, an independent musician, and his wife Rooney Mara who live together in a small suburban house. They have an ordinary life and are a very normal couple until one day Affleck is killed in a car crash outside their home. While lying dead in hospital Affleck rises from a clinic bed and walks out underneath a bed sheet. After Mara moves out of the house, the ghost is left to...
Trump Watch: How did we get here anyway? Part One – The Disengaged Voter
It was Frank Zappa who described politics as 'the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.' I mention that wonderfully cynical observation by the late musician as if there was ever a time for cynicism, we're living in it. Cynics aren't the same as pessimists or satirists. A pessimist looks at the world, sees it is wrong, and hides. A satirist looks at the world, sees it is wrong, and exaggerates its flaws. A cynic however looks at the world, sees...
Canals near the Olympic Park have been invaded with tonnes of weeds
Canals surrounding the Olympic Park have been invaded by a green carpet of duck weed - near the World Championship which has been marred with outbreaks of gastroenteritis. Teams are collecting up to 120 tonnes of green sludge every week on two canals in the capital as it multiplies in the heat. Athletes staying in the capital for the World Championships have contracted gastroenteritis, leading to many withdrawing from Monday's heats. Hot weather causes green carpet of duck weed on...
Watch – Police hunting savage jogger who shoved a woman into the path of a bus
A woman was attacked by a jogger on a morning run who pushed her into the path of a bus. At about 7.40am the 33-year-old victim was walking across a bridge when a man appeared to veer towards her - and shove her to one side. The woman was sent flying into the path of an oncoming double-decker bus, which narrowly missed hitting her. He is seen running towards her and pushing her down as her head nearly went under...
Grieving mum slapped with £1,600 bill for putting up road safety signs near where teenager daughter was killed
A grieving mum who put up road safety placards on the roundabouts near where her teenage daughter was killed by joyriders was dismayed to be charged nearly £2,000 for doing so. Amy Hofmeister was only 13 years old when she was knocked off her bike on a pavement and killed by a young couple who were racing each other in separate cars. Her mum Jane set up a road safety charity, Think Amy, in her memory after the tragedy six...
Review: 108 Garage chef Chris Denney’s ‘Itineraries of Taste’ banquet
Joining the likes of Claude Bosi and Lee Westcott of The Typing Room, Chef Chris Denney of 108 Garage recently hosted a banquet on the roof of Harvey Nichols. Part of S.Pellegrino’s ‘Itineraries of Taste’ series, which continues with another event in London tonight (Tuesday 8th August) followed by one more at Harvey Nichols’ Edinburgh store, hosted by Elizabeth Allen (Pidgin). The final London banquet of the summer will be hosted by Marianne Lumb, having made it into the top...
10 years since the credit crunch, and it’s still the poor people’s fault
On 9th August 2007 the banking sector observed the first shudder of what was to become a debilitating earthquake of seismic proportions. The markets woke up to find French bank BNP Paribas had halted redemptions on three investment funds because it was unable to measure the value of the (then) obscure (but now infamous) collateralised debt obligation (CDO) instruments in its portfolio. The bundles had been designed to make risky debt look secure, thus increasing their availability and flooding the market with...
Brexit may not have happened if Brits were brighter – study finds
Brexit may not have happened if Britons were brighter because not enough people grew up with access to higher education, according to new research. With education the predominant factor dividing those who voted Remain or Leave, researchers from the University of Leicester reckon greater access to higher education may have reversed the result of the 2016 referendum. The paper, published in the journal World Development, suggests that greater access to higher and further education can produce different political outcomes. They...
Kikuchi serves some of London’s best sushi
Devastatingly, most of London’s Japanese restaurants have become poseur pilgrimages, instead of dining institutions. Terminuses for those who’ll choose a place for dinner based on the “vibe”, dress like stars from terrible films and push their raw fish around a slate, pretending to have fun before settling the four-figure bill and posing for optimum Instagram likes. Kikuchi, however, is a saving grace for those of us that actually enjoy Japanese food. Here, there are absolutely no bells, whistles or “live...