This excellent music documentary charting the history of South London’s Cyamande is a must watch for music lovers. — If you have any knowledge of hip-hop it seems there’s a chance you’ve heard of Cyamande. This lesser known South London band made hits that have been sampled by the likes of Soul II Soul, De La Soul and MC Solaar. Now comes a documentary to tell you exactly who…

Peter Tatchell has just been released 25 October after being arrested the same day due to his staging the first ever LGBT+ protest in any gulf state. Footage of Peter Tatchell being arrested in Qatar. His arrest comes jus 26 days in advance of the World Cup to be held…

Too much skin, too little skin the world always has to comment — In the run up to the Olympics I read two articles that related to women’s clothing in sport. The first was about a Paralympian Olivia Breen, who had been chastised for the length of her running shorts. Surprise, surprise they were considered too short. The second was about the Norwegian…

Depression is a battle of will, you do not always need to reach for the medicine cabinet — Any of you that have experienced depression will know the feeling drags you into a painful inertia. Even getting up seems like an impossible task and you can be reduced to floods of tears with next to no provocation. If you have not experienced depression yet there is a high…

The perfect café does not exist, the perfect experience does — A chance journey to the pub on New Year’s Day saw me end up not at the pub, but instead at the Café. The pub presumably being closed because everyone had enjoyed an amazing New Year there. The experience was the perfect end and beginning. The end of my New…

Who knew heist movies could be deliberately silly! — The Pay Day is an independent female-led British comedy heist movie, staring Kyla Frye as Jenn, in addition to Sam Benjamin and Simon Callow. The film follows Jenn, a 30-year-old, broke, frustrated, and single IT technician. Her chance to escape mediocrity comes in the form of a life-changing payday, but…

A south London gangster tale that you might want to give a miss — Six month after a bank job gone sideways, four criminals reunite to split the proceeds of the heist. Before they all go their separate ways, the crew need to make sense of the mess and figure out what went wrong. The Last Heist starts slowly and continues at a slow…

All restaurants in England and Wales serving alcohol are legally required to give you free tap water… — Although free tap water is often given out in restaurants, it is only a legal requirement to serve tap water in establishments that serve alcohol. However, it is a bit mealy mouthed to refuse it within this larger context. Thus my fight with the server at Indi.go in Westfields. I…

Marina Ahmad MP is calling for a Childhood Hunger Commission for London with a new report — There are four key recommendations for tackling childhood hunger in a new report spearheaded by Labour’s Marina Ahmad. Marina Ahmad spoke at an event today on childhood hunger at the Peckham Methodist Church, in her constituency of Lambeth and Southwark. Marina Ahmad said at the event: “Too many Londoners are…