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Hackney Art Week is back, and in 2026 it’s going to be even bigger than last year’s event. The east London art festival has promised it will ‘expand across the borough’ this summer, with the fair taking place in Hackney […]
Photograph: John Marshall / JM EnternationalCalling all ’90s babies. A free exhibition has opened at the Barbican, and it’s celebrating the era of Cool Britannia with all things Spice Girls and Britpop. Mel B’s leopard print catsuit, Gerri Halliwell’s union jack print boots […]
Photograph: Ceri Breeze / Shutterstock.comIn 2025, London Heathrow recorded its highest number of passengers ever. A whopping 84.5 million people used the travel hub last year, which equates to an average of more than 231,000 travellers arriving and departing every day. However, that wasn’t […]
Photograph: ShutterstockIf you’re one of those nosy Londoners who likes to look through people’s living rooms and right into their gardens as you walk past houses, this one’s for you. In June, you’ll get the chance to snoop around Keir Starmer’s backyard […]
Image: White Rabbit Red RabbitIranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit turns 15 this year: but it just keeps getting bigger and bigger as it plots a fresh West End run with some truly massive names. The playwright has made a […]
Photograph: Pip SeedRichard E Grant gives such immaculate ‘West End stage actor’ vibes that it’s easy to overlook the fact that he’s a relative stranger to Theatreland, having not done a play in London since Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engaged 20 […]
Photograph: Markus Mainka / Shutterstock.comThe journey to the airport is stressful enough on a good day. The obligatory panic questions – What if I left the stove on? Did I remember to double lock the back door? Have I got […]