Collabo Review: Hip-Hop With a Difference
By Verity Healey There’s a buzz in the air at Stratford Circus Arts Centre. No wonder, this is the 10th anniversary of Collabo, Tony Adigun’s annual dance celebration founded in 2006 to promote new collaborations and hip-hop hybrids from dance groups. Friday’s program of short portfolios opens with 10 (UnTitled Dance Company) choreographed by Lukas McFarlane lasting fifteen minutes (no mean feat in the hip-hop world) and featuring 10 tracks and illustrating some super synchronised steps and gyros executed with...
Brexit leak reveals PM May is actually a fussy village hall committee chair
A leaked document, seen by the BBC, has discovered that Theresa May is actually a fussy and controlling chair of the Caterton village hall committee in Oxfordshire. May has been criticised for her tendency of "drawing in decisions and details to settle the matter herself." Her micro management of literally every decision has caused a huge bottleneck, while the big job of fixing the church roof has been totally forgotten about. She is still deciding the exact quantities of Orange...
Tiny Tycoon! 14-year-old boy makes £2million in property deal
A teenager has a landed a deal making him more money than most people can ever dream of making, and he still hasn’t taken his GCSEs. The wheeler-dealer, who attends Taunton Academy School, had already made £100k, by the age of thirteen, selling tax disc reminders as the head of one of the UK’s fastest growing businesses. Harvey Millington, now 14, has moved into the world of property developing landing himself a HUGE deal already, landing a seven-figure deal. Harvey...
Winter is Coming – Be Prepared
Every weather forecast on the BBC this month has sent chills down the spine of landlords and home owners across the UK as ‘grim up North’ weather parades itself around the country like a Gallagher caricature. Let’s hope that 2016 doesn’t have too many visitors from ghosts of Christmas past and the floods that battered large swathes of England are in semi-retirement now. It is a safe bet though that the rain will pour and the snow will fall, so...
Ethics is a County Just to the East of London, in the Eyes of British Workers
Ethics? Isn't that a county to the East of London, the media jibe goes. But according to new research, millions of workers may feel the same way. A new study has found millions of Brits would turn a blind eye to a company’s ethics as long as the salary was good. A survey of 2,000 employed adults in the UK found that 36 per cent would rather work for a company that paid them more, over one whose morals they agreed...
Whitehall Could Need 30,000 Extra Staff To Deal With Brexit
Leaked documents have revealed that the government has no plan for Brexit, and that it may need to employ 30,000 extra staff in order to deal with related projects. The Times today unveiled a leaked memo that suggests it will take another six months before the government decides precisely what it wants to achieve from Brexit or agrees on its priorities. It also identifies cabinet splits between those at the heart of the negotiations, namely between Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit Secretary...
London Monarchs Enter First Ever Quidditch Premier League
The London Monarchs and Southeast Knights are among the first teams to be entered into the Quidditch Premier League. After many years of strong growth within the quidditch community, the Quidditch Premier League (QPL) has been established to create a new tournament structure for the best players in the UK. Eight teams from Hadrian’s Wall to the Cliffs of Dover will compete against one another to gain the title of national champions in quidditch. The teams will be open to any...
Man who doesn’t mind if immigrants drown can’t deal with images of leopards mating
A man who scoffs every time he sees a TV news piece about another boat load of immigrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, was left flabbergasted at the sight of snow leopards mating in the wild. Tony Richards, 45 from Rochester was sickened when he sat down to watch the show. Visibly shaking he said: “It just isn’t fair, the leopard was just trying to protect her cub, it was brutal, it wasn’t her fault, she had a natural instinct to mate,...
Brexit as catalyst for change for good
One of the reasons cited by expert commentators for Donald J Trump’s shock election to the highest office in the world was that it was “America’s Brexit”. Which says a lot. The word itself is being used internationally as something unstoppable, usually negative, but at its most positive, the harbinger of change. It seems ‘The System’ is repeatedly being given a bloody nose by those citizens who feel they have no power, no voice, and that this is their only...