It’s fascinating to watch how the war in the Middle East echoes through multicultural London. The city is home to at least 40–60 thousand Iranians. A strong concentration of shops, restaurants, community centres and politically active diaspora can be found mainly on Ballards Lane in North Finchley, nicknamed “Little Tehran”. And as one might expect,…
London is inseparably linked with the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, played every year on the grass courts of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. It is the only Grand Slam that still preserves the tradition of grass, a strict dress code, and an atmosphere no other tournament can replicate. Another…
The suffering of animals in war is a topic usually reduced to horses, dogs, and pigeons. To those “noble” creatures that humans managed to tame and then deploy in their conflicts with such elegance that, years later, they even build them monuments. In London, on Park Lane next to Hyde Park, there really is a…
The UK by-election held on 26 February in Gorton & Denton (Greater Manchester) shook the political scene more than any other local contest in recent years. A constituency long considered an impregnable Labour stronghold fell to the Greens for the first time, while Reform UK took second place and the governing party finished only third….
