Big Brother coverage. P1, 4, 5Virgin Media to double broadband speed. P13And finally …Days after a male contestant snuck through the selection process for ITV dating show Take Me Out despite having been a male escort and the broadcaster is in hot water again – for his date having a past as a, yes, female [...]
A “BOOTYLICIOUS” porn star has been banned from entering Britain, it was revealed yesterday.Roxy Reynolds famed for her big bottom and voted one of 2010’s top adult film performers was set to earn a fortune over the festive season, working as a high-class escort to Premier League footballers, actors and senior figures in [...]
… The London Merchant,” a tragedy from 1731 that was one of the first British dramas to focus on the middle and working classes – and that has apparently never received a professional production in North America – will be performed Jan. 6-28 at the Theater at the Church of Notre Dame in Morningside Heights [...]
London, England — (SBWIRE) — 12/26/2011 — Le Lido de Paris is irrefutably one of the most celebrated cabarets on the globe. It is located on one of the most spectacular and refined avenues in the world (none other than the Champs-Élysées), and it is most renowned for its stunning ‘Bluebell Girls’. Take [...]
The scene was a public hearing in London on Nov. 29, and McMullan, a former newspaper reporter, was fondly reminiscing about his time, in the mid-’90s and early aughts, working for Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid, News of the World.…On July 7, 2011, London’s robust tabloid culture imploded under the collapsing bulk of Murdoch’s largesse. That [...]
London, UK (OPENPRESS) December 24, 2011 — Le Lido de Paris is irrefutably one of the most celebrated cabarets on the globe. It is located on one of the most spectacular and refined avenues in the world (none other than the Champs-Élysées), and it is most renowned for its stunning Bluebell Girls. Take [...]
Dickens is a cardinal representative of the age in which he lived. His writings shape our perception of Victorian London; even his detractor Walter Bagehot conceded that in his evocation of London life he was “like a special correspondent for posterity”. And his characters – from Scrooge and the Artful Dodger to Mr Micawber and [...]
With record numbers of women in London turning to sex work to provide an income the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has launched a new campaign to decriminalise prostitution for “safety’s sake”.At an event at St Pauls “Tent City” a New Zealand MP Tim Barnett who sponsored the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised prostitution [...]
Viewed through a 21st-century lens, the 1948 London Olympics resembles an Ealing comedy. It also saw deplorable examples of snobbery, sexism, racism and animal cruelty — not to mention child labour and forced labour. The sponsors, horror of horrors, even included a brand of cigarettes.…There was no ‘legacy’, let alone a grandiose new sporting theme [...]
Charles Nicholl, our finest literary and historical detective, is drawn to subjects of dark human concern and puzzlement. The Reckoning (1992), his inquiry into the murder of playwright Christopher Marlowe, scrutinised Elizabethan assize records with forensic exactitude; his last book, The Lodger (2007), explored a murky period of Shakespeare’s life in Jacobean London.…Another bravura performance, [...]