London’s fire service said on Friday it was taking “immediate action”, after an independent review concluded it was institutionally misogynistic and racist. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) promised a “zero tolerance approach... Read more »
London Fire Brigade is “institutionally misogynist and racist”, says damning review into its culture https://t.co/3yOM4u4Dhi— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) November 25, 2022 (SocialLY brings you all the latest breaking news, viral trends... Read more »
The humbug-striped awnings and all-black exterior of Mama Shelter, just a ten-minute walk from Bethnal Green tube station, is your first clue that this hotel likes to do things differently. Your second... Read more »
What makes a meal memorable? The right combination of food, company, and surroundings is certainly important. But then there is that ineffable quality: hospitality. Plenty of restaurants across the spectrum from high... Read more »
Of all the conspiracy theories you could get tangled up in, the idea that “Australia is a hoax” might well be my favourite. Its inhabitants? Merely actors. Qantas? Fictitious. You could take... Read more »
WARNING: This article contains details of sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone affected by it. The London Police Service (LPS) in Ontario has started an internal... Read more »
It’s extraordinary how unchanged Beth Orton appears, given the skirmishes over her very selfhood she has apparently fought in the six years since her last album. Clad in a mirrored dress and... Read more »
★★★★☆“Open sesame” are the words to whisper as you enter Lord Leighton’s Arabian fantasia off Kensington High Street. Before it closed for renovation, Leighton House had become dusty and drab. Now, after... Read more »
In Everyone Can Rap (ITV), a lovely, too-short film by Daniel Dempster, the south London rapper Youngs Teflon takes three everyday people who have never rapped before and sets about turning them... Read more »
You don’t have to read past the opening pages of Kamila Shamsie’s new novel to figure out the theme. Zahra, the daughter of a popular cricket broadcaster in 1980s Karachi, thinks that... Read more »
