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London Calling – City of the World
Mike Stuchbery recalls a cacophony of people through time, who came to London and made it what it is today.
London Never Was an English City: and the Anglo-Saxons Always Distrusted It
Built by Romans, shunned by the Anglo Saxons, renewed by the Normans, Britain's great capital has survived adversity through diversity.
Remembering Steve Strange: The Ultimate 'New Romantic' who Hated the Name
Chris Sullivan, DJ and writer remembers Steve Strange, lead singer of Visage and the New Romantic Movement on what would have been his 60th birthday.
WORD OF THE WEEK: spleiter
(v.) to spill a liquid messily over something
Pessimism is for Lightweights: Teenage Dreams in Tumultuous Times
On the road with her LiveWire poets, Salena Godden finds hope in youth and poetry's ability to help us mourn our passing world.
She Came from Nowhere: The Tale of Jeanne Hatchette
Mike Stuchbery on another stirring story from our European past that shows how small actions can have big consequences.
A Different Kind of Trip - Mood Based Travel
Kyle Taylor and psychologist Pasha introduce their concept of prescribing where to go and what to do as an antidote for your mood.
A Second Vote: How Essex Man was Always Multicultural
The Count of the Saxon explains the fluidity of Saxon religious belief as new archaeological discoveries suggest the East Saxons converted to Christianity, and back to Paganism again.
Nick and Me: The Great Brexit Storm Uprooting Old Friendships
Otto English on the tragic story of how the social media civil war of the last few years has cost him dearly.
'A Plague Tale' Review: A (Grim) Kind of Alchemy'
'A Plague Tale: Innocence’ is a game about change. True to the alchemical concepts upon which much of the plot rests, the game represents an arc of corruption, distillation, purification and sublimation.
THE UPSIDE DOWN: Show Me the Money – the Story of the First Journalist
John Mitchinson recounts the life of Daniel Defoe, the Patron Saint of Freelancers and Master of Aliases, who hustled journalism into existence three hundred years ago.
WORD OF THE WEEK: broggle
Another timely Word of the Week from @HaggardHawks: broggle (v.) to make repeated ineffectual attempts at doing something
THIRTY YEARS OF RAVE: Why the Second Summer of Love was Met with a Police Backlash
DJ and writer Chris Sullivan on the timely new film 'Beats' as he explores 30 years of rave culture in the UK.
