Restaurant Review – duck duck goose
Of all the earth’s gifts, there are few foods that aren’t instantly enhanced by the addition of sesame. So it’s hardly surprising that the prawn toast at duck duck goose, with its thick layer of prawn mousse and vaster area to be coated with toasted sesame seeds, is so implausibly transcendent. A stone’s throw from Brixton’s mainline train station, duck, duck, goose is just one of the restaurants situated within Pop Brixton. Opened in 2015, Pop Brixton is a community...
You’re probably an evil Socialist, but you don’t even know it
If I hear one more person compare the prospect of Britain under a Labour Government to ‘living in Venezuela’ I might to fly to Caracas and throw myself off Parque Central Torre Oeste. Whichever way you voted during the EU referendum OR the General Election, you’re probably tired of being labeled, and are sick to death of reading absurd clichés. Lazy baseless arguments posted over and over and over again on Facebook don't make the point more valid, but they do create...
Larry the snail triumphs at world Snail Racing Championships
A humble garden snail has proved slow and steady wins the race - at this year's World Snail Racing Championships. Larry the snail beat his sluggish competitors to the finish line by covering the 13inch course in just two minutes and forty seven seconds. He pipped 134 other molluscs to the post but was just short of the two-minute world record held by snail Archie since 1996. T But Larry's achievement was beginner's luck after he entered the race for...
The New Journalism is back: A Palestine preview
A year and a half ago a book written by M.E. McMillan titled From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What's Really Going on in the Middle East? landed on my desk for review. The title neatly summarizes the content, so no further description is needed other than mentioning that the book is very good and well worth your while. It all proceeds smoothly, following the historical timeline until it approaches our present day and the two solitudes...
New dinosaur species discovered
A colourful bird-like dinosaur that was as big as a man has been identified by scientists. The blue and beige feathered creature stalked the Canadian 'badlands' of Alberta 71 million years ago. Its remains had been dug up over the years in what is now Red Deer River Valley - a famous dinosaur graveyard - but it's only now that a true picture of it has emerged. Palaeontologists initially thought the bones of Albertavenator curriei belonged to its close relative...
Police & Crime Commissioner told to apologise after calling Tory Councillor a w**ker
A police and crime commissioner has been told to apologise after being accused of branding a Tory councillor a w***er during a town hall meeting. Hardyal Dhindsa, who is also a Labour councillor, is said to have made the foul-mouthed comments during a Derby City Council meeting on January 25. Councillor Phil Ingall reported Derbyshire's police and crime commissioner to the authority's standards department after he says he was twice called a w***er. The council's monitoring officer, Janie Berry, said...
Good samaritan fuming after hotel refuses to let him buy room for homeless man “for safety reasons”
A Good Samaritan was left stunned after he tried to pay for a hotel for a homeless man but was refused a room "for safety reasons." Kind-hearted Olly Attfield, 32, was left furious when managers turned away the man at the Jury's Inn even though he offered to pay the £70 room fee. He had been walking along Birmingham's Broad Street last Thursday (13/7) with a friend when they got chatting to 56-year-old Paul. Olly said he was so moved...
Non-league in London: Corinthian-Casuals FC
By Stuart Tree Corinthian-Casuals were founded in 1939 from the amalgamation of their two famous forebears, The Corinthian Football Club and The Casuals FC. The Corinthians were founded in 1882 by N.L."Pa" Jackson, Asst. Hon. Sec. of the Football Association. His aim was to develop a club side capable of challenging Scotland at international level. Within four years, calling on the best amateurs from the public schools and universities, there were nine Corinthians in the England team. Twice, the national squad...
Businesswoman inspired by Eastenders single-handedly keeps food bank stocked for weeks
A businesswoman has single-handedly kept stocks of a food bank running after she was inspired by an episode of EastEnders. Michelle Napier, known as Shell, was moved by a recent storyline in the popular soap and discovered that her local food bank was in dire need of supplies. She donated an entire month's worth of profits to Daniel's Place in Banff and Macduff, Aberdeenshire. The 30-year-old pledged to spend a percentage of earnings from selling skincare products through her online...