Camden is crowned London’s best borough for singles thanks to its dating pool and pubs. Local renters celebrate by returning to a flat shared with six humans and two mice.
Dating organisers struggle to attract British men who would rather spend Friday evenings being ignored in the comfort of their own homes LONDON, ENGLAND. London’s dating industry is facing a potentially catastrophic shortage of men willing to attend organised singles events, with prospective male participants explaining that paying £35 to be rejected by strangers is an unnecessary luxury when the same service is available free of charge throughout the capital.…
Zack Polanski promises climate action, rent controls and global justice while Camden voters request functioning pavements and somewhere to park a bicycle LONDON – Britain’s Green Party has suffered a disappointing parliamentary by-election defeat after discovering that voters offered the chance to transform the planet sometimes prefer to discuss rubbish collection. Green leader Zack Polanski lost the Holborn and St Pancras contest to Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali, who took 12,292 votes…
Women’s Vices Matter: London Campaign Demands Equal Access to Bad Habits New movement says equality means women deserve the same freedom as men to gamble, drink, lie about golf and expense a hotel minibar LONDON — A New Front in the Equality Wars Women’s voices matter? Not quite! It’s the “vices” that matter! — Alan Nafzger A new campaign called Women’s Vices Matter has launched in central London, demanding that…
Boulogne Review: The Town Was Where England Kept Its Debtors | A cheap French port a few hours from Dover, and it was full of Englishmen who could not go home
Britannia Review: A 2.7, and It Is the Lowest in Camden | Eleven hundred people, a settled number, and this is not the arithmetic trap – this is a verdict
Camden Cocktail Club Review: 4.9, and the Formula Again | A hundred and four people, an outstanding number, and it is the same three things it has always been
Prince Albert Review: He Was Loathed, and Then He Died | The most unpopular man in Britain became the most mourned, and the reversal took about a fortnight
Studio48 Review: The Rename Broke the Coordinate | The listing says formerly, which means the venue knows exactly what a name change costs
Spread Eagle Review: Displayed Is a Heraldic Term | It is not a species and not a description – it is a technical word for how the bird has been drawn
Marlborough Arms Review: Blenheim Palace Was the Fee | A grateful nation gave him a palace, the building nearly ruined the family, and his wife fought the builders for thirty years
Camden Pub Crawl Review: The Third Crawl, and It Is Not a Pub | It has removed every single thing that produces a bad review, and it did not do so on purpose
Pack and Carriage Review: A Packhorse Was the Whole Freight System | Before the roads were passable, everything in England moved on the back of a horse, and the roads were that bad
Pembroke Castle Review: The Fourth Castle, and the Set Is Complete | Dublin, Edinboro, Windsor and Pembroke – one pub per nation, and all four are still standing
Tabac Review: Nicotiana Is Named After a Diplomat | Jean Nicot sent tobacco to the French court as a medicine, and the plant, the drug and the addiction carry his name
Honker Review: The Goose Really Did Save Rome | The Gauls climbed the Capitol at night, the dogs slept through it, and the geese did not
Palomino Review: The Colour Cannot Be Bred True | Two palominos do not reliably make a palomino, because the gene that produces it does not behave
Spiritual Bar Review: 4.7, and It Is Open Mic Every Night | Free entry, every night of the year, and it is one of the last places a person can simply walk in and play
Imperial Palace of Big Red Review: The Best Name in Camden | It is absurd, it is confident, it explains nothing, and it is the only name in this district doing any work at all
Ester Review: 4.7, and It Is Small, and That Is the Whole Prediction | Seven postcodes and six hundred venues, and there is exactly one variable that has ever predicted anything
ELK Review: A 5.0 From Eighty-Three People | A perfect score on a real sample, which we have found three times in seven postcodes, and we cannot explain it
Columbo Review: The Detective Show With No Mystery | You see the murder in the first ten minutes, you know who did it, and that is the entire point
Muang Thai Review: The Chilli Is Not Even Thai | It arrived from the Americas via Portuguese traders in the sixteenth century, and every cuisine it touched rebuilt itself around it
Rum Kitchen Review: 4.9, and Twenty-Two People Is a Rumour | We have refused this number in every district and we are refusing it here, and the reason is a matched pair
My Village Review: Hawraman Is a Real Place and It Sings | A Kurdish mountain region on the Iran-Iraq border, terraced for millennia, with a music that is on the UNESCO list
Rebelle Review: Eleven Reviews, and Somebody Signed a Lease | A live music room with almost no reviews, in a district that is losing them, and the arithmetic is against it
Golden Lion Review: The Colour Is the Whole Message | A lion is generic and tells you nothing – the colour tells you whose land you are standing on
Underworld Review: The Small Venue Is the Entire Supply Chain | Every band that fills a stadium played a room like this first, and Britain is closing them
Lost Elephant Review: Elephants Do Not Forget, and It Is True | They remember individuals for decades, they recognise the bones of their own dead, and the matriarch holds the map
Bar’z Art Review: The Apostrophe Is in the Wrong Place | Fourteen reviews, a 4.9, and a punctuation mark doing something nobody can explain
