The jailed former London cabbie, 53, is believed to have considerable assets, including four houses. Each of the claims could run into tens of thousands of pounds and he could lose everything.A legal source said: “This is probably an unprecedented case, given the number of women victims involved who [...]
Essentially, this is an allegorical piece describing the corruption of capitalism, and the efforts of the workers of a fictitious town – ‘Steeltown’ – to unionise. Mr Mister (excellently played by a well-cast Aaron Shirley) owns most – if not all – of the town. His entrepreneurial tentacles embrace almost every aspect of life in [...]
In West and central Afrika 200,000 children are trafficked annually. In Ghana on Lake Volta children are sold to fisherman to mend and fix nets. While the poorest children are moved into agricultural work, perhaps from Mali or Burkina Faso in Ghana, Ghanaian children will be sent as domestics into Nigeria or Cameroon, and Nigerian [...]
In Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard, Canadian author Richard B. Wright gives the reader the gift of a gorgeously portrayed 17th-century London, when Shakespeare and his contemporaries were filling the playhouses with comedies and tragedies.The city comes alive under Wright’s description — its hustle and bustle, its dastardly thieves and its crowded marketplaces [...]
Authorities in the early life of the play (in London and New York City) sought to have the work snuffed out. In 1902, in his “Author’s Apology” about the play, Shaw wrote, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession has been performed at last, after a delay of only eight years; and I have once more shared with Ibsen the [...]
LONDON – First came the royal engagement. Now — 10 days later — the first book.click image to enlarge
Britain’s Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton, are seen at St. James’ Palace in London after they announced their engagement Nov. 16.
2010 Associated Press file
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If you had to build a prison for human pleasure, it would look like this. Among booths selling tacky, made-in-China suspender sets and a smattering of interestingly shaped dildos are concessions for discount bathrooms and homoeopathic Viagra substitutes; towering above the entire bazaar are giant inflatable female limbs, naked torsos and amputated legs in stockings [...]
Newspaper editors across London have received a letter from Scotland Yard warning them to beware publishing sex adverts, reports the Croydon Guardian.It warns them that they could be held criminally liable if they run ads for sex establishments that turn out to be linked to human trafficking, exploitation or the proceeds of crime.The letter was [...]
Standing still was not necessarily what was planned, on the Facebook and Twitter campaigns that actually got teenagers out of their bedrooms. What was planned was, I think, quite a lot of marching up and down, waving placards saying thing like “David Cameron is a Voldemort”, which [...]
Born in Dorset, Tom Hunter moved to Hackney in 1986. His work has been seen at London’s National Gallery, the V&A Museum and Saatchi CollectionFor an artist who plucks his ideas from today’s headlines while looking back to the painterly traditions of the past, Tom Hunter is resolute about one thing.He seldom strays far from [...]