POP FACTOR: 596 CONTROVERSY SCORE:
I’m not proud of losing touch with hip-hop, even the most commercial big-production hip-hop, so much but facts are facts and that’s what’s happened. All it needs I’m sure is one or two grea[…]

Evil under the sun — I’ve been reading Donald Rayfield’s Stalin and His Hangmen for the past few days. Good read, not quite as well-written perhaps as the recent similar study of Hitler’s inner coterie The Devil’s Disci[…]

LINKDON
Trip through the city, sonically
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY – go and read the links we’ve put on the sidebar, ignore the glib descriptions if you’d prefer. All worth a look.
Did anyone go?
All of a sudden, London has a skyline&#8221[…]

Grecian Earn Update
Regular readers will, I know, have been chewing away at their fingernails and wondering feverishly: “how are the Freaky Triglets getting on with their Grecian Earn?”
As you’ll see by our totaliser here, we’[…]

Hearty English cuisine — one of the first things I’ve also noticed ever since visiting London for the first time in 1992 is the places what sell food. In that hey! they’re the places that sell food in America! So seeing all sorts […]

Pub Olympics: the idea of a pub olympics has long been a pet one and often half-heartedly discussed among my fellow disciples of Organised Fun. However I now have the power to turn idea into action – for our work charity each country is putting[…]

Tickle Talk Update
An essay on editing, with case studies. Possibly the last essay from the third greatest ever BB contestant, but easily the most interesting, and only coincidentally agreeing with my feelings on the matter. Many BB fans manage to ho[…]

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(Confessions Of A Metropolitan Claustrophobe part 1)
Living and travelling around and through London is easy on the Tube, despite all it’s flaws. But take it away and the nightmarish urban journey takes on a new dimension. A[…]

MORCHEEBA – “The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre”: The parking shop at Wandsworth Town Hall is a mass of low expectations thoroughly met – laminate zone maps on formica tables, chewed pencils on raffia strings, customers […]

FT Top 100 Films
49: CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
Martin Skidmore says:
I love this film. It’s full of great moments and scenes, beautifully shot, mostly flawlessly acted, with glorious cinematography. I love the scene with the petite girl (Zh[…]