Emily Prescott Apr 10 1 min Londoner’s Diary: Ding dong! Grayson Perry to ring in post-pandemic world with specially cast bell GRAYSON PERRY is making a bell to be rung at the end of the pandemic — which supporters of Whitechapel’s closed Bell Foundry hope will...
Emily Prescott Apr 10 1 min Londoner’s Diary: I would be crushed if my wife hated my book, says David Shannon David Shannon, who has just launched his debut novel HOWUL: a life’s journey, said it was vital that his wife “didn’t completely hate...
Emily Prescott Apr 10 3 min Londoner’s Diary: ‘Brexit has left Britain’s fashion industry in real danger of being bypassed’ Brexit will devastate the British fashion industry unless the Government provides urgent support, say fashion leaders. “We desperately...
Emily Prescott Apr 10 3 min Londoner’s Diary: Pandemic will prompt MeToo moment for disabled people, says comic Rosie Jones Comic Rosie Jones believes disabled people’s experience of the pandemic will bring about a movement as powerful as Black Lives Matter or...
Emily Prescott Apr 10 1 min Londoner’s Diary: Maggi Hambling ‘gift’ shows even great artists still have to earn a living Maggi Hambling is a maverick — right down to gift giving. The artist once delighted someone she worked with on a sold-out exhibition by...
Emily Prescott Apr 10 1 min Londoner’s Diary: Stanley Johnson’s ready to put down his pen… but after one final novel STANLEY JOHNSON tells us he is “ready to call it a day” on his writing career after republishing The Warming and releasing a new novel,...
Emily Prescott Apr 10 1 min Londoner’s Diary: James Middleton says he is troubled by cost of pandemic puppies James Middleton, who recently gave one of his puppies to his sister, the Duchess of Cambridge, tells us he fears breeders are taking...
Emily Prescott Dec 22, 2020 1 min The Londoner: Lockdown didn’t slow us down, says sex club founder Lockdown isn’t the disaster for sex clubs that you might think it is, as the founder of London’s exclusive Killing Kittens tells us her...
Emily Prescott Dec 22, 2020 1 min The Londoner: Rupert Everett’s idea to ruin Richard E Grant’s awards night glory Rupert Everett says he was tempted to jump out of a window and ruin Richard E Grant’s evening of Golden Globes glory last year after he...
Emily Prescott Dec 22, 2020 2 min The Londoner: I’m not afraid of ‘kill whitey’ joke critics, says Sophie Duker Sophie Duker, the comic at the centre of a storm over a “kill whitey” joke on a panel show, tells The Londoner “I am deliberate and...
