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72 days ago
Daniel Power, who had made appearances as a comedian at open mic nights before he was jailed for dealing, filmed a raft of comedy videos from inside Brixton prison.
3 months ago
Joy Crookes says UK and Ireland in ‘dark time’ amid rise of far-right politics ⊕⊕
Musician’s Brixton and Dublin performances go viral after she performs Sinéad O’Connor’s anti-racism anthem Black Boys on Mopeds
The UK and Ireland are entering a “dark time”, according to the singer …
4 months ago
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of compu…
Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot | Simon Jenkins ⊖
They wrote off Margaret Thatcher in 1981 when the SDP – like Reform today – was ascendant. They were wrong about her; they could also be about Starmer
Party conference time is when British politics go…
Woman, 22, horrified to be told flu she caught at the pub was actually 'Victorian disease' scarlet fever - as cases continue to climb ⊖⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Indigo Duffy, from Kingston in London , suddenly developed a 'burning sore throat' after attending a 'really packed' and 'hot' gig in a Brixton pub last year.
My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was paralysed during a botched police raid. It was the end of his childhood and the start of his fight for her life and legacy
When Lee Lawrence’s so…
5 months ago
Terrifying moment knife-wielding youth 'stabs' teenagers in front of screaming bystanders in London street ○
The violent incident happened on Acre Lane in Brixton early on Thursday evening and was posted on social media platform TikTok.
‘The Ziggy Stardust suit sparked my adolescent awakening’: Moby, Goldie, Natalie Merchant and more delve inside Bowie’s archives ○
As a huge new public collection opens this weekend, famous fans pick out their touchstones – from the game-changing wardrobe that gave birth to glam to the synthesiser that drove his Berlin years
• Al…
6 months ago
I now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer – here’s why you should think so too | Brian Paddick ○
I have been a Met officer and a critic. I still worry about the culture there. But as the Notting Hill carnival approaches, I am persuaded this is the best option
Brian Paddick is a non-executive advi…
Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material review – an eccentric hour from a fringe fledgling ○
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
The south Londoner’s avian theme frames a fine debut about family, neurodivergence, pigeons, pigeons and more pigeons
Twenty years ago, Original Pirate Material emerged f…