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I see its fifty years since Yuri Gagarin's first orbit around the earth. To celebrate it as a piece of Big History there's a new pl...

And as if yesterday's picture of Nelson's column wasn't enough, here's the rather sorry state of the Olympic clock prior to ...

They say 'what difference a day makes' and the transformation already at Trafalgar Square from the situation at the weekend is a goo...

As we arrived in the Tristan Bates theatre, the swinging man on the stage was already swigging a tin of lager and starting a half engaged co...

Yesterday's slight preparation paid off as we were able to transition around London without the level of trouble depicted on the televis...

Filling the car with fuel today after the budget reduction. I couldn't help notice it was 141.9p per litre. Last march it was 117p. That...

I know what you're thinking. I had to get the issue - strictly in the interests of research. It meant checking the A to Z. And the detai...

I'll admit that I'm quite a long way behind the latest episode of the rapidly concluding Danish detective series "the Killing...

I first read something by Jennifer Egan in a magazine. I liked the rhythm and humour of the piece and subsequently googled to see if she’d w...

From time to time I get people email me about a picture that I've posted onto flickr. It will usually be a snap of a particular London b...

A few of us had met together in a riverside pub. It was a somewhat ad-hoc gathering after work. It felt almost unusual to be close to 'h...

Back at home after a week on the road. A passing visitor to the garden this morning gave the usual occupants a run for their lives. I was ma...