Thackeray was born in India and came to England with his widowed mother while very young. His old man was an Administrator for the East India Company and had died there. Young Thackeray was educated at Charterhouse School in London and later had a brief career at Cambridge, where his booze parties and gambling [...]
Waterloo Shoe Repairs in London cuts keys “while u wait”, and while Robert Sheehan waits for his keys to be cut we sit in the nearest pub. The Irish actor has locked himself out of his flat and has had to borrow his landlord’s master to make a hurried copy; he’s also due on stage [...]
16 December 2011, London – Aid is hindering growth in the developing world, according to some of the world’s leading thinkers on economics, religion and politics, who came together in London at a conference titled From Aid to Enterprise: Economic Liberty and Solutions to Poverty. Hosted by the Acton Institute, the conference explored the limits [...]
Re-creating Tatlin’s TowerIf you are in London’s West End and feel very, very sick of the Christmas commercialism visit the Royal Academy, where a reconstruction of the spiralling abstract tower designed by Vladimir Tatlin serves as a reminder of the communist dream. Imagine no possessions.• At Royal Academy, London W1 until 29 January 2012…The Morelli-Nerli [...]
Set in London in 2009, Nick Mathur and Jignesh Jerry Patel are living the life Nick is living the dream life with the dream girlfriend, all set to have a dream marriage and a dream honeymoon, just like his girlfriend Radhika (Deepika Padukone) wants. Jerry on the other hand just about manages to live [...]
Over to London! A swishy British belle purrs, “Thank you for last night,” her houri-like kitchen maid goes ditto. So does an enormous male security guard, all of them handing over wads of cash to a gigolo for services rendered. Oh, oh, how sexually permissive is that?…Clearly, the disjointed screenplay is the chief culprit of [...]
LONDON: Terrified Jordan told last night how she feared a sinister plot to kidnap her children after a hidden tracking device was found under her car, reported British daily The Sun on Friday.The GPS gadget was discovered this week after the 33-year-old took her pink Range Rover to a London garage for a routine check.Glamour [...]
Four months after several reports showed that Asian Muslim gangs in Britain had turned thousands of British girls into sex slaves and prostitutes, the government finally appears ready to act. London’s Daily Mail reported early this week that the country’s minister for children and families wants to crack down and put the sex slavers out of [...]
LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) – A British judge has rejected a bid by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to block evidence relating to corruption allegations being transmitted by video link from Britain to an Italian court.In a case dating back to 1997, Berlusconi is accused of bribing British lawyer David Mills, husband of a [...]
Just the controversial title was enough to prompt someone to run off with one of the group’s advertising banners from a railing in Linslade. Was the town ready for a bordello opening up for a limited engagement above the town’s library?Despite the subject matter this was a production that provided plenty of laughs and only [...]