Tag: Culture
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What Good Could Small Talk Above the Thames Really Do?
in FeaturesWhat good could small talk with strangers 90 metres above the Thames really do? As part of Loneliness Awareness Week, a trip aboard TfL’s Chatty Cabins and a visit to the Public Living Room offered a surprisingly simple reminder of the power of human connection.
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The World Cannot End Every Morning Before Breakfast
in ColumnModern news increasingly feels designed to emotionally overwhelm rather than inform. After waking up to coverage of the Trump and Xi summit, Colin Cushion reflects on doomscrolling, media framing and why audiences are desperate for perspective again.
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Raising the Flag for the “Pearl of Bankside”
in FeaturesThe Golden Hinde has been named one of four National Historic Ships UK Flagships of the Year for 2026, as visitors, volunteers and heritage figures gathered aboard the replica vessel at St Mary Overie Dock to celebrate its continuing place at the heart of London’s cultural landscape.
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Hooked, Then Completely Lost: Thoughts on Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park
in ReviewsSherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre completely pulled me in with magical surroundings, razor-sharp pacing and constantly inventive staging, before an ending that left me feeling like I’d somehow wandered into an entirely different mystery. These aren’t so much formal thoughts on the production as they are an attempt to process the experience…
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This Needs to Be Said Plainly
We say we need to talk about suicide more. But when we do, we soften it. This piece pushes back against that instinct, asking what gets lost when the truth is made easier to sit with.
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Keeping The Golden Hinde Afloat: The Pearl of Bankside
in FeaturesHidden beside Southwark Cathedral and Borough Market, The Golden Hinde remains one of London’s most tactile cultural experiences. As the historic replica marks 30 years in the capital, the team behind the ship are balancing preservation, accessibility and education while keeping a piece of maritime history alive on Bankside.
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The Devil Wears Prada and the Cost of Never Slowing Down
in ReviewsSlick, confident and relentlessly polished, The Devil Wears Prada knows how to move. What it struggles to do is stay still long enough for anything to mean something.
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The Slow Collapse of Public Behaviour
in ColumnPublic space is not a stage, a living room, or an extension of your personality. Somewhere along the way, restraint was mistaken for weakness and consideration for inconvenience. This is not nostalgia. It is a refusal to indulge behaviour that makes shared life unbearable.
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