Women Filmmakers Triumph At Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest, London At the first-ever UK festival dedicated to the surreal and uncanny, filmmaker Rocio Rocha from Argentina wins the trophy for Best Film as her experimental short The Inhabitants Of Me wows the judges. Lisa Battocchio from Italy wins the coveted Best Director category for her […]
Whether or not Rishi Sunak becomes the next PM, history has still been made. But, perhaps, for all the wrong reasons The Tory leadership race is past third stage voting with Tom Tugendhat, Suella Braverman, Nadhim Zahawi, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid and Grant Shapps all out and a winner to be announced on September […]
The sun’s out at last and its tentative appearance will have much more fanfare in mid-May when temperatures are expected to rise significantly. And how better to reconnect with nature and enjoy London’s attractions than by taking that Royal Park trek through St James’s Park, Green Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. These are, what […]
With outrage spreading over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the world faced with the prospect of a widening conflict, WHL’s focus is away from London’s social, cultural and community news and inevitably towards these global concerns. Ukrainians gathered all over London to protest the Russian invasion and ask for more UK support. There were emotional […]
London’s Architecture: An Understated Post-Pandemic Attraction UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keen to resurrect the nation’s tourism industry and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, for once, agrees. This bipartisan stance is not a surprise given the dire facts and figures about the dwindling arts, culture and heritage sectors during the pandemic. A key driver […]
Food shortages, supply chain issues, it’s argued that all these current problems trace back to the UK government’s handling of Brexit and the pandemic. There are some who say this was inevitable given the impact and the untimely confluence of the two during 2020-21. However, politicians such as Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham believe that […]
The Parthenon Marbles, the Clooney’s and a poetical perspective from Keats and Byron THE PARTHENON MARBLES became front-page news back in 2014 when Greece appointed international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney, to argue their return from Britain to their homeland of Greece. The argument was raised again in 2018 […]
How did Britain go from rumours of a possible dream team Labour-Greens alliance back in 2018 to Boris brooding over Brexit, climate action and the coronavirus panic? Some believe terms such as ‘Golden Age’ and ‘Camelot’ have no place in the harsh and dirty reality of every day politics but that Jeremy Corbyn-Caroline Lucas option […]
The all-important 2020 budget announcement on 11th March was significant for many reasons, the first since Brexit and for the newly appointed government. But before the announcement there was a little noise being made from protestors outside the Houses of Parliament. Extinction Rebellion were among various other groups protesting, ahead of the announcement from the […]
Labour MP Sir Keir Starmer has emerged as a frontrunner to be the leader of a Labour Party that has experienced extraordinary swings in popularity in recent years. Many in the party hope that he will bring an end to this election see-sawing and present a unifying centrist mandate and show the electorate that Labour […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
