2 h. ago I left the US to travel for a year. I had a wonderful time in Florence but cannot say the same for London.

I left the US to travel for a year. I had a wonderful time in Florence but cannot say the same for London.  Business Insider

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2 h. ago The inside story of how Starmer seized back control of Labour

As the long summer recess approached, the PM dramatically suspended four Labour MPs to reassert his authority. Political Editor David Maddox looks out how events unfolded and what it means through the eyes of those involved

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2 h. ago Breaking the Binary: meet the founder behind a US theater company for trans and non

George Strus founded Breaking the Binary Theatre, one of the only theatrical spaces in the US created for and run by gender-expansive artists, in 2022For George Strus, theater was one of many roving interests during their childhood in northern New Jersey.First, there was baseball. Then, a short stint in ice skating. “I was really into Webkinz for like, two months,” said the 27-year-old during a phone interview. A fixation on Sillybandz, the brightly colored, animal shaped rubber bracelets, soon followed. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Thomas Frank can't hide true feelings as Man Utd agree £71m Bryan Mbeumo transfer

Tottenham boss Thomas Frank wanted to bring Bryan Mbeumo with him to north London but the Brentford star is now poised to join Manchester United in a big-money transfer

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3 h. ago Month's worth of rain falls on London and South East as Met Office issues amber thunderstorm alert

Intense thunderstorms and torrential rain could cause flooding and even pose a danger to life, while buildings are at risk of damage due to floodwater, lightning strikes, hail or strong winds.

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3 h. ago The Dorchester, London: why families should swap city breaks for a staycation this summer

We all know The Dorchester, but did you know it may be the solution to all your school holiday needs?

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3 h. ago ‘I love England so much’: From TV to pop, film to fashion, the UK is enjoying a cultural resurgence

Three decades on from Blur and Oasis, a new and more diverse wave of stars is celebrating British identityIn the opening episode of Lena Dunham’s Netflix show Too Much, a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London to live out her fantasy of British life and love stories. Jess is quickly swept up in her feelings for an indie musician, dreamily referring to him as “My Mr Darcy, my Rochester, my Alan Rickman”.Produced by the team behind Bridget Jones, Notting Hill and Love Actually, the show was inspired by Dunham’s own move to London in 2021. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘I was struck by the grammar of it, the angular nature’: Elizabeth Day’s best phone picture

The author’s instinctive image of colourful windows in a house undergoing renovation was selected for the Royal Academy’s annual Summer ExhibitionElizabeth Day felt as if she hadn’t seen the sun for decades. It was a gloomy December morning and the podcaster and author was headed towards a London recording studio. On the way, she passed a row of houses that were being renovated. The windows on one particular house had just been replaced and covered with a translucent blue sheet and haphazard orange tape; the scene caught her eye, so she paused to capture it with her iPhone 15 Pro.“I’m known among my loved ones as someone who takes photos of random things, but I just found this so arresting,” Day says. “I was struck by the grammar of it, the angular nature. The tape reminded me of art’s golden ratio, the geometry like a Mondrian crossed with a Rothko. I was exhausted that morning and it completely brightened my mood.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago At least 20 people hurt as vehicle ploughs into crowd after 'shots fired'

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3 h. ago At least 31 hurt as vehicle ploughs into crowd after 'shots fired' outside LA nightclub

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4 h. ago UK government backs London bid to host the 2029 athletics world championships

UK government backs London bid to host the 2029 athletics world championships  Yahoo Sports

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4 h. ago All aboard! 1930s tube train offers trip down memory lane on London's Underground

All aboard! 1930s tube train offers trip down memory lane on London's Underground  MSN

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4 h. ago £20k reward offered to solve murder of boy, 15, shot dead at London park festival

Rene Graham died after being shot at a music festival a crowded park in Ladbroke Grove, west London.

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4 h. ago How I live in London for less than £500 a month: Woman reveals her trick to amazingly cheap rent and bills

Honora Pamplin, 27, lives in a spacious converted warehouse with four housemates in Walthamstow, east London.

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4 h. ago ‘The entire industry said no’: the story behind seminal teen comedy Clueless at 30

Amy Heckerling, Alicia Silverstone and more involved with the defining 1995 movie talk about their memories of making a film that Hollywood kept passing onIn the early 1990s, the writer-director Amy Heckerling was feeling down. Heckerling had burst on to the scene a decade earlier with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a groundbreaking coming-of-age comedy of libidinous teens, and scored a surprise box office hit with 1989’s Look Who’s Talking. But she was struggling to fit Hollywood demands. “I was thinking: ‘Oh, I’m never going to make a film that’s what I want it to be, because you can’t have protagonists that are female, you have to do slob comedies, but there’s only a few actors that they accept in those roles, and you don’t get a chance to work with them if you’re a female,’” Heckerling told me recently.With little interest in catering to the prevailing tastes of the day, Heckerling went back to the drawing board: what did she want to write? A true native New Yorker with the accen...

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4 h. ago Miriam Margolyes: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? When the media reported my imminent demise’

The actor on disappointing her mother, the only time she will tell a lie, and a terrible spat with Glenda JacksonBorn in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, she won a Bafta for her role in The Age of Innocence and was later cast as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. Her stage credits include Wicked, The Vagina Monologues and Dickens’ Women; her TV work includes Trollied and Blackadder. In 2002, she was made OBE, and in 2022 received a BBC Audio Drama lifetime achievement award. She takes Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits to the Edinburgh fringe at the Pleasance at EICC, Pentland theatre from 9-24 August. She lives in London.When were you happiest? On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Hipsters and tourists love our town because it's covered in graffiti: It's making us depressed and our local businesses are broken

It was once a booming industrial sector of east London surrounded by social housing estates home to humble working-class Cockney families.

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5 h. ago London now has a new bookshop totally dedicated to romance novels

London now has a new bookshop totally dedicated to romance novels  Time Out Worldwide

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5 h. ago Interactive map reveals London’s worst boroughs for smoking – as capital shown to be lightest smokers in UK

Figures show Enfield as the smoking hotspot but Londoners puff the least nationwide

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5 h. ago Theft caught on camera as woman's bag is stolen from between her feet

TikTok influencer Grace Beverley shared the terrifying ordeal of her bag being stolen from between her feet while out in London - and shared the entire footage as a warning to her followers.

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