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Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 13.20 EDT In 1967 the National Youth Theatre in London performed the first new play it had ever commissioned, with 80 performers arranged on a set depicting a football stand. The play would be revived with new casts eight times over the next 20 years, and again at Wilton’s Music Hall in London in 2017. It was televised twice, and entered the school curriculum. The play was Zigger Zagger, and its writer was Peter Terson, who has died aged 89. The story of teenager Harry Philton and his friend Zigger Zagger, who draws Harry into a band of rioting football fans...

URL copied to clipboard The news last month of mass shootings in three massage parlours in Atlanta, Georgia, at least one of which was Korean owned, chilled me – and chilled East Asian people worldwide. Of the eight people who were killed in the shootings, six were women of East Asian descent. Investigators have not yet confirmed whether they consider this shooting to be racially motivated. But the attack came amidst a rising tide of violence against people of an East Asian appearance in the West over the past year. Between June and September last year, London’s Metropolitan Police re...

Britain at the Turn of the 20th Century Was Dealing With a Lot, Badly Buy Book ▾ By Richard Aldous By Simon Heffer King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in their coronation robes. “What fools we were,” King George V told his prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, in 1930, looking back to the era before World War I. In the context of the wartime catastrophe his generation had delivered, the king may have had a point. That was the time of Rudyard Kipling’s “long recessional” and A. E. Housman’s “land of lost content.” Arthur Balfour, prime minister from 1902 to 1905, lamented “some...

Marmite rules at new Brit-ish Sydney cafe Cornhill Coffee Co. Scott Bolles Photo: Supplied It's a brave cafe that puts Marmite rather than Vegemite on an Australian menu. Cornhill Coffee Co. on York Street in Sydney's CBD is owner Andrew Carter's ode to British food. "It's nostalgia on my part, but I've pretty quickly found Australians don't like HP Sauce," he says.   "We are importing Marmite from the UK, quite controversially it seems, and keeping Vegemite as an off-the-menu item," says Cornhill's British-born owner. Cafe and roastery Cornhill Coffee Co. in York Street.  Photo: Su...

  MONTREAL -- Some tenants living in Montreal's Plateau borough may have to find a new place to live come July after receiving a letter to vacate the building in three months. It's a 90-unit apartment building dating back to Expo '67, and many of its tenants have been living there for a long time. "When I saw the paper when I went to bed I start crying I was looking at my apartment it’s like they were taking my life away," said Ginette Giguere, who received on of the eviction letters that advised her she would need to leave by June 30 as major repairs are needed.