Web-native menswear label Bianca Saunders staged an immersive Shoreditch activation for her Spring/Summer 2025 collection, The Hotel, partnering with Puma’s H‑Street campaign. The Puma-backed pop-up combined tactile retail, music, food and community programming rooted in Jamaican culture to translate online inventory into lived experience. Bianca Saunders has turned a web‑first…

Tucked down a side‑street off Red Lion Square, Novelty Automation is a compact arcade of roughly 20 hand‑built, coin‑operated automata. Created by Tim Hunkin, the machines mix Victorian mechanics with contemporary satire — bring a token bucket (c. £28) and allow an hour or two. When a corner of Holborn…

A compact team used two Quantum7 desks for house and monitors and an SD7B in Zen Broadcast’s OB ‘Little Buddha’, making the truck the Optocore clock source to enable a pre‑show recording pass and three performances in two days for the charity gala. The Mountbatten Festival of Music returned to…

Neon jumpsuits and ABBA hits are back as Mamma Mia! reopens at the Winter Garden Theatre for a strictly limited six‑month Broadway engagement through 1 February 2026. The production largely transfers from the 25th‑anniversary North American tour — with Amy Weaver as Sophie, Christine Sherrill as Donna and 25 company…

A Labour peer has called for John Tweed’s Grade II‑listed statue of Robert Clive, sited outside the Foreign Office, to be taken down, arguing its reliefs sanitise colonial violence and could harm relations with India. Any removal would face legal and procedural barriers because the memorial is listed, reopening the…

Photographs show more than 40 people bedding down on Oxford Street outside flagship stores, underscoring a sharp visual return of rough sleeping to the West End. The encampments followed a cleared tent settlement on Park Lane and have prompted renewed enforcement from councils and TfL, while charities warn short‑term clearances…

Freedom-of-information returns compiled by the Royal College of Nursing show 4,054 recorded incidents of physical violence against A&E staff in 2024, broadly double the figures reported in 2019. Unions and clinicians link the surge to overcrowding, long waits, understaffing and rising mental‑health presentations, and say immediate protection measures must be…

An AI assistant declined a user’s request to produce content advocating for a specific political party and instead offered three safer options: a neutral rewrite scrutinising Labour’s governance, an impartial briefing of Reform UK’s policies, or a balanced media-analysis of rhetoric versus policy. The exchange underlines how generative platforms limit…

The trial of Dartford councillor Ricky Jones has opened after video of him making a slashing gesture while denouncing far‑right demonstrators circulated widely. Jones denies encouraging violent disorder; jurors will consider whether his words and actions, in a febrile national context and amplified by social media, crossed the legal threshold.…

Esther McVey’s Express column has hardened into a running dossier that Reform UK and others say exposes a gap between Labour’s promise to ‘clean up politics’ and the conduct of its ministers. High‑profile departures over a London rental dispute and links to an overseas probe, alongside a Home Office review…

Ricky Jones has pleaded not guilty to encouraging violent disorder after prosecutors showed footage at Snaresbrook Crown Court of him telling a Walthamstow anti‑racism rally ‘we need to cut their throats’. He was arrested and suspended by Labour; a jury will now decide whether his words amounted to criminal incitement.…

Parents, grandparents and youth workers have occupied the shuttered Down Lane Park pavilion in Tottenham Hale, erecting a buggy blockade and running free meals and children’s activities through the six‑week summer break. The takeover follows the departure of charity Living Under One Sun after stalled talks with Haringey Council; the…