History is made at night

It's the start of a new term in British student life, and yes no doubt at the end of Freshers Week some students are going out dancing, ...

Demonstrations are continuing all over Greece following the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by fascists this week. An anti-fascist lost an eye on We...

The English Defence League demonstration in London yesterday didn't amount to very much, with around 500 taking part. Fears that they w...

I caught the last day of Ellen Gallagher's AxME exhibition at Tate Modern on Sunday. Particularly taken with this Sun Ra homage: ...

Doing some research/recollecting the movement against what became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 with its notorious police ...

This is one of my favourite headlines for a while, from  Slate.Com : 'Bodybuilder Sneaks Aboard German Leader’s Jet, Stages One Man Ra...

So there I was talking to a neighbour and the Situationists came up in the conversation, and he says to me I think I've got some of th...

'Because all these serious faces’ll drive you mad, the only meaning is without meaning– Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we...

Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff (b.1937) wrote an autobiography 'Free Association' in 1997. Born in a Jewish family in Stepney ...

Struggling to remember the names of Cold War US presidents? Here's a handy South London mnemonic taught to my daughter by her history te...

Protests are spreading across Turkey following the violent police assault on the Gezi park occupation on Taksim Square in Istanbul city cent...

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

A new low in corporate clubbing at the Shimmy club in Glasgow, where women have complained about a two way mirror looking in to the women...

'Once upon a time New York nightclubs catered to the aristocracy of the fabulous, to those with the looks, the style, or the connection...

What were the UK pop kids, dancers and punks listening to 30 years ago? Here's some clues in the charts  from the New Musical Express 2...

The sounds Of the Harlem night Drop one by one into stillness. The last player-piano is closed. The last victrola ceases with t...

My favourite Arthur Machen story is the The White People , published in 1899, featuring the diary of a young woman who has stumbled into the...

Effigy of Thatcher at the party in Trafalgar Square last night - the hair made out of Sainsbury's carrier bags (insert joke about gro...