Back in the early 1980s I worked for the GLC as a playleader (don't laugh), and reported to the department that ran adventure playgrounds from a ratty prefab office at Burgess Park in Camberwell
Read full article...This evening at the Royal Academy I will be proposing to an informed audience and a panel of architectural experts that Stockwell Bus Garage is in fact London's most important building
The battle is on to win the hearts and minds of Londoners. So whose box will the capital’s voters tick on 6 May? Judging by the views of those on the number 88 heading to Westminster, many of us are still undecided
John Hillcoat’s film of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is ostensibly about survival after an apocalypse, but its core theme, is really paternal love.
I was walking to the local post office one morning this week when I came across a policeman looking grimly at a large pile of car tyres that had been dumped in the gutter
Richmond residents are some of the most satisfied in the country with where they live. Our reporter Will Self seeks the secret of their inner peace
The creation of human sperm in a laboratory raises the question of why society persistently views assisted conception as an entitlement
During the lowest tide of the year, Will Self ventured down to the Thames to discover the secrets of the fluvial beaches from Chelsea Bridge to Lambeth
Black cab drivers shamelessly stealing each other's fares and minicabs ramming their rivals - the recession has brought mounting tension to London's streets
An American travel website is warning travellers off our fair city on the grounds that it's "dirty" and the cuisine isn't all it might be
Face it: you aren't going to die of swine flu. Getting all wound up about the looming pandemic is just a way of ignoring the plague of debt sweeping the world
Plans are afoot to make the default speed on A roads 50mph instead of 60, while more 20mph zones will be introduced in residential areas and in the vicinity of hospitals and schools
JG Ballard – Jim to those who knew him – is considered by many to be the most significant author of the past 50 years. Here, one admirer pays tribute to his foremost literary inspiration and remembers an extraordinary and gentle man
I never took to Tony Blair at all. I was never impressed by his populist touch, nor was I sure that the benefits of a Labour government that sacrificed its principles to the free market could be outweighed by the gains to the British people
Will Self reports on the third day of protests by British Tamils inflamed by the military actions of a Sri Lankan government intent on extirpating the last of the Tamil Tiger fighters
I’ve always known when a TV series is starting to bite with me — I begin consciously organising my life around its scheduling
One thing that seems to have been lost in the media blizzard surrounding the Home Secretary's dodgy expenses claims is the nature of the "entertainment" that was charged by Richard Timney - Jacqui Smith's husband - to the taxpayers' account
If Google's aim is to be master of all it surveys, then the launch of Google Street View in the UK brings it that much closer to surveying, well, everything
Sir Paul Stephenson has chosen a good issue with which to make his mark on London’s policing, saying that he wants his officers patrolling on foot and alone
The splendidly named Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas is at it again, using her New West End Company — basically a shopkeepers' association — to campaign for fewer buses on Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Street. True, her stated aim is to make the area more pedestrian-friendly but, I wonder, what sort of pedestrians does she have in mind?
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