35 h. ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

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36 h. ago Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman review – secrets from the studio

The much-loved painter, designer of stamps and creator of anti-war posters shares tips from a 90-year careerYou know the art of David Gentleman even if you don’t know you know it. Anyone who’s passed through London’s Charing Cross tube station has seen his life-filled black-and-white mural of medieval people, enlarged from his woodcuts, digging, hammering, chiselling to construct the Eleanor Cross that once stood nearby. His graphic art has graced everything from stamps to book covers to Stop the War posters in a career spanning seven decades. He says he’s been making art for 90 years, since he was five.His parents were also artists, and in his latest book he reproduces a Shell poster by his father to show he follows in a modern British tradition of well-drawn, well-observed popular art. Perhaps it is because he learned from his parents as naturally as learning to speak – “Seeing them drawing tempted me to draw” – that Gentleman dislikes pedagogy. He’s proud that...

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37 h. ago How many injuries happen on the London Underground? As commuter who lost arm and leg files high court claim

Sarah de Lagarde, a mother from Camden, has launched a massive claim against Transport for London after losing an arm and a leg in a Tube incident

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58 h. ago Buy a couple of stops along the Tube line and save £25,000 off your house price per extra minute of commute

Buyers can make massive savings if they look a few stops down the Tube line

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61 h. ago ‘We thought hippies would throw mud at us’: Billy Bragg, Kate Nash and other stars on their Glastonbury debuts

Every artist dreams of playing the world’s greatest festival, but what’s it actually like? Artists returning this year, including Fatboy Slim and Self Esteem, look back at their first showsYou can tell it’s 1984 by my shirt. I’d just played the Jobs for a Change festival, in the middle of London, easy to get to by tube. But Glastonbury was like being on an island. You had to deal with the weather, the food and the toilets. It was also mainly populated by Bristolians. I performed once solo, but also got up on the Pyramid stage with [country and western singer] Hank Wangford to do (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66. The original Pyramid was made from corrugated iron and doubled as a cowshed. I remember it being swampy backstage. There were no bars, you had to bring in your own beer. Keith Allen and [Scottish poet] Jock Scott blagged their way in, pretending to be a Belgian film crew, and sold cans of Red Stripe for 50p. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Major incident as three men stabbed and rushed to hospital after Tube station attack

Three men have been rushed to hospital after a stabbing outside a busy Tube station in London. Police and paramedics were called to the scene in Willesden last night

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2 d. ago Thug killed ‘gentle and kind’ commuter with one punch on London tube

Rakeem Miles, 23, killed Samuel Winter, 28, after he accidently knocked into him on the London Underground.

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3 d. ago Armed police officers swoop after man is stabbed at rush hour near west London Tube station

Viral video on social media shows another assault at Earl’s Court 24 hours earlier

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3 d. ago Armed police swoop as man stabbed outside Tube station in rush hour

Armed police swoop as man stabbed outside Tube station in rush hour  London Evening Standard

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3 d. ago Man chased around London Tube for his watch before attacker is pinned

Man chased around London Tube for his watch before attacker is pinned  Metro.co.uk

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4 d. ago Moment man 'goes on rampage' at Tube station in lawless London

Moment man 'goes on rampage' at Tube station in lawless London  Daily Express

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5 d. ago Desperately brave way stranger saved woman from being eaten by an alligator after beast dragged her from kayak

Christiane Salvador, 64, nearly lost her arm when she was suddenly attacked by a female alligator while kayaking in Polk County, Florida, on March 3.

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5 d. ago London Tube fares will remain most expensive in Europe after Government orders four years of hikes, warns watchdog

London will continue to have some of the most expensive transport fares in Europe after the Government ordered four years of above-inflation hikes, the capital’s passenger watchdog has warned.

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6 d. ago MrBeast gave pal £300k to lose 7st but YouTube video nearly shelved after death

The high-stakes YouTube star launched a viral challenge to help his friend Madj lose weight and the internet rallied behind the journey but a tragic turn of events risked its release

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8 d. ago Should men give up their seats on public transport for women? Battle of the sexes breaks out over Londoner's divisive clip of her Tube journey

London's public transport network is usually a thing of beauty, but increasing numbers of women are reporting on how hard it is to get a seat on an Underground train these days because of men.

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8 d. ago Exclusive: Tube hammerblow as £3billion fleet of new Piccadilly line trains delayed by a year

First ‘deep-level’ air-conditioned Tube train not due to enter service until second half of 2026

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8 d. ago Nintendo Switch 2 fans baffled as Metroid Prime poster seen with shock release date on Tube

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond does not yet have a release date, which is why many fans are very confused about the advertising spotted overnight at London Tube's Oxford Circus station

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9 d. ago London travel news LIVE: Fire alert disrupts multiple TfL lines during rush hour

Travel updates from around the capital

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Good service across all Underground lines

The capital’s latest travel updates

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1 week ago London travel news LIVE: Windrush line delayed and part suspended

The capital’s latest travel updates

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