The screening process for Ebola is being reviewed after a nurse with the virus was allowed to leave Heathrow Airport despite being tested. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/screening-process-for-ebola-under-review-after-nurse-with-virus-travels-through-heathrow-9951291.html
Breaking through just after The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays founded Madchester and before they could have found greater fame as a Sixties-influenced Britpop band, Oldham’s Inspiral Carpets have ended up as more of an indie rock footnote. They had a number two album, Life, in 1990, and were Reading Festival headliners the same […]
Yevgeny Schwartz, who died in 1958, was a brilliantly astute observer of Soviet tyranny. But he has never been a household name in Britain. The Dragon, presented here in a new adaptation by Daniel Goldman and the Tangram Theatre Company, is probably his best-known work — a political fable dating from the Forties that […]
When I was a child, arriving at Baker Street meant one thing: a trip to the dentist. The family tooth-twiddler and gum numb-er was three minutes’ walk from the Tube; my mother would take us to the Thorntons in the station afterwards to appease us and undo his good work. http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/106-baker-street–restaurant-review-9769150.html
Stephen Fry launched his new book More Fool Me by cementing his place in the nation’s heart. http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/comedy/stephen-fry-festival-hall–comedy-review-a-warm-and-lively-testament-to-frys-unique-charm-9770030.html
Stephen Fry launched his new book More Fool Me by cementing his place in the nation’s heart. http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/comedy/stephen-fry-festival-hall–comedy-review-a-warm-and-lively-testament-to-frys-unique-charm-9770030.html
The buzz: Experimental mixologist Matt Whiley is behind this new bar dealing in inventive cocktails at the old Hackney Town Hall. It shares the space with hot new restaurant the Typing Rooms. http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/bars/peg–patriot–bar-review-9769894.html