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Arriving at 180 Café, I was greeted warmly by Inder Paul Sandhu, the artist himself, his friends, and team, and the first thing I saw was the literal warmth everyone irradiated.

Many clubs last, but very few become part of a city's story. On the 2nd and 3rd of October, Ministry of Sound marked its 35th birthday with a landmark weekend celebrating 35 years at the heart of dance music, welcoming some of electronic music's most influential artists across a range of genres.

"The Raw and the Cooked" opened with a promise: eleven contemporary artists channeling medieval tradition to interrogate our own age of spiritual uncertainty and political upheaval. It is ambitious, and unevenly, but not without reward, the result mostly delivers on it.

theatre review heartsink show, a new medical comedy. final moths of life struck by disease.

In London’s February, the sight of a snowdrop is not botanical - it is psychological.

On my last call of the day with Ma, I hear from miles away about the family gathering on the floor, as is customary across Bengali households, and chat over the steam and smell of masala chai and vegetable croquettes. I smile, and try to make do with the last piece of gulab jamun tucked at a corner in my fridge.

Bloomsbury Football Foundation is a charity, currently based in London, but with plans to scale across the country. Our mission is to transform young people’s lives using the power of football.

Harry Lighton’s directorial debut, Pillion (2025), is everything it says on the tin and more. Inspired by Adam Mars-Jones’s novel, Box Hill (2020), we follow the relationship—or, perhaps more appropriately, arrangement—shared between two gay men living in south-east London—one an unassuming, barbershop-singing parking warden, and the other a mysterious, unabashedly kinky biker.

Writer Shanai Tanwar reflects on her experience as an international student in London as her first term draws to a close.

I moved to London almost two months ago, and like any anxiety-riddled extrovert in her twenties, I had that crippling fear that I would make no friends.