22.5.07

Economist Cities Guide

The Economist's Cities Guide: "Getting home after the London Underground stops running (12-12.30am) can be difficult. Many venues will order you a taxi or minicab on request. Night buses are cheap and increasingly plentiful, but can be packed and rowdy at weekends."

Other great travel information: Travel and Leisure, Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree and the New York Times travel section. Concise city specific information is at United's Hemisphere maagzine and yuppie Wallpaper magazine.

20.5.07

London Markets

"Here is a map of 19 of markets that are all within easy reach of Central London."

Bush presidency 'worst in history' for international relations: Carter

globeandmail.com: Bush presidency 'worst in history' for international relations: Carter: "Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter says President George W. Bush's administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy."

9.5.07

The Seven Sins of England

The Seven Sins of England: "On Saturday nights, a half-million workers flood the city like a sea, flocking into certain sections to celebrate the Sabbath all night until five in the morning. They stuff themselves and drink like animals ... They all race against time to drink themselves insensate. The wives do not lag behind their husbands but get drunk with them; the children run and crawl among them.
(Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1862 – quoted in Duncan Campbell 'In the Heart of Babylon' Guardian, January 6th, 2007 )."