London’s Zenith was the era of Georgian town squares, during 1700-1800, an imperial city which finds itself at the centre of world’s trade, empire, finance and manufacture. Andrew Saint, an architectural historian, conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was at the height of its power, uniqueness and…
Dubliner Vincent Keaveny (56) has been sworn in as the 693rd Lord Mayor of City of London. Mr Keaveny becomes first Irishman to hold the office in his first public engagement, led the Lord Mayor’s show from the Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice on Saturday November 13, where he swore allegiance to the…
4 by Six presents Break in Emergency 2 J/M Gallery, 230 Portobello Road till Sunday with all proceeds going to the homeless. Works pictured include Fear Less and Love More by Peter Tunney. All works done on sections of scrap double decker buses from a scrapyard in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. This exhibition uses recycled London…
Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The Nutmeg’s Curse, traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. He argues that the dynamics of climate change today…
DAVINA BOSANQUET – ARTIST – PATTERNS IN NATURE. J/M Gallery, 230 Portobello Road ‘til noon 13 Nov www.DAVINABOSANQUET.COM – Buy and Commission through this site. @davinabosanquet f davinabosanquetart Our most favourite wildlife and locals from the African continent enchant and mesmerise. Showing at the J/M Gallery, one of many exhibitions Davina has had including being…
Last week 28-year-old Sooraj Kumar was given a rare double life sentence for killing his wife Uthra, by making a cobra bite her, leading to a grisly murder. A sessions court in Kerala on Wednesday awarded life sentence to the victim’s husband for killing her using a cobra. The court had held the husband Sooraj S…
A 158-year-old bridge built in 1863 on the river Tiber in Rome has been partially destroyed in a fire believed to have started by a cooking gas canister in an area of shacks occupied by homeless people on the river banks. The Bridge one of the last major construction works in Rome.
Paxlovid a Covid experimental pill developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death in vulnerable adults, according to their clinical trial. Pfizer says it stopped trials early as the initial results were so positive. The UK has already ordered 250, 000 courses of the new Pfizer treatment along with another…
Suspension of Owen Paterson halted as MPs vote to review the system. Boris Johnson wants the independent system of combating sleaze in Parliament yesterday as he threw the government’s weight behind protecting Tory MP who was found to have repeatedly breached lobbying rules. This MP took £ 500, 000 from firms he lobbied for breaching…