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The taxi wars bringing tension to the capital's streets

15.05.09

Black cab drivers shamelessly stealing each other's fares and minicabs ramming their rivals - the recession has brought mounting tension to London's...
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Try all that's in this fun city - for just a tenner

06.05.09

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

Could the flu be payback for our recent hoggish past?

29.04.09

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...
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Fewer rules on our roads will make us better drivers

22.04.09

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...
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He was my friend, my mentor – the greatest writer London had

21.04.09

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...
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I don’t buy the gospel according to Saint Tony

15.04.09

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...
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Why these Tamil sons in London, mourning their slain mothers in Sri Lanka, have placed Westminster under siege

09.04.09

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...
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This stylish show should bite the hand that feeds it

08.04.09

I’ve always known when a TV series is starting to bite with me — I begin consciously organising my life around its scheduling

Porn in the home - it's the nation's dirty secret

01.04.09

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...
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Get street wise – Big Brother is googling you

25.03.09

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,...
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To gain our respect police must get out on the beat

18.03.09

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...
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Oxford St is jammed but I’m proud to travel by bus

11.03.09

The splendidly named Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas is at it again, using her New West End Company — basically a shopkeepers' association — to campaign for...
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Your son’s drug ordeal is not fit to print, Julie

04.03.09

I was once on a panel that gave a prestigious award to Julie Myerson for her first novel, Sleepwalking, an elegantly overwrought account of an abused...
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Come clean, Mr Miliband – tell the truth about torture

25.02.09

Now that Binyam Mohamed has returned to the UK from detention at Guantanamo Bay, there must be quite a few Whitehall mandarins — not to mention some...
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Get off the phone and get on with your lives

18.02.09

Ken Stott may be starring in A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York’s but it’s what he can hear in the auditorium that’s bothering him

For ****'s sake, the swearing Mayor speaks the language of London

13.02.09

According to a leaked minute, Boris Johnson uttered the most commonly employed fricative expletive no fewer than 10 times during a recent phone...
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Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu

13.02.09

Darwin's bicentennial is taking on the character of a national festival of scientific progress, with yea-sayer after hagiographer dominating print and...
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It’s not just vicious dogs who need to be leashed

11.02.09

The tragic death of baby Jadon Smith after being attacked by family pets should be taken to heart by all dog owners

You can’t back down on clean air, Boris

04.02.09

Mad Men, the beautifully styled take on Madison Avenue admen in the early Sixties, returns to Brit screens next week

Another day, another doner

30.01.09

Despite news this week that kebabs can contain your entire day’s calorie count, one Londoner writes of his addiction to them

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