The LNR project Last night was the London News Review “launch” party, only six months or so after it was originally supposed to happen, and with still no sign of the actual magazine being printed (“fortnightly from Autumn 2003…”) If they ever get round to publishing the thing, hopefully it will be better than their DJ-ing (unbelievably awful) and choice of launch party location (the almost Aussie-free for the evening Walkabout). Still, we did manage…

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Lazy Sunday afternoon in Hampstead Heath Hampstead is only ten minutes away from our house, but it feels like another world. After aimlessly wandering the heath for a while, we managed a concerted effort to make the brisk walk up to the top of a muddy Parliament Hill, from which, amidst kite flyers and wet dogs (all apparently about to do that just-come-out-of-a-lake, shakey-shakey, thing), we surveyed a grey and impressively distant London–the volume of…

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