History is made at night

posters in Shoreditch, 2024 When I saw the great folk singer/guitarist Martin Simpson playing earlier in the summer (at the Goose is Out fol...

Santa Maria, Brazil, 2013 'Sixteen people will face criminal charges in connection with a deadly fire at a Brazil nightclub in January...

Glad to see Elizabeth Price win the Turner Prize. Pleased too that she mentioned her (similar to mine) Luton upbringing in her winning speec...

'The dust came first. Donald Maitland noticed it as he rode back in the taxi from London Airport, after waiting a fruitless forty-eight ...

In today's Observer, Arcade Fire's Régine Chassagne, whose family fled Haiti to escape the Duvalier dictatorship, writes about the e...

Terrible news (via BBC) of a nightclub fire in Russia last night: 'At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub ...

Tragedy last weekend (23 May) at a festival in Morocco (full story at BBC News ): 'At least 11 people have been killed in the Moroccan c...

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster , when fans of Liverpool FC were crushed at the Hillsborough football s...

I know millions of people have been partying and having a good time in the past 24 hours (from a free party in Kent to Melbourne where 40,0...

My thoughts go out to the victims of the nightclub fire in Shenzhen, China this weekend: Thirteen people have been detained in connection wi...