The Big Smoke

Lucky Jim spends five hours in a Mayfair strip club, the new home for the VHS Video Basement squatters. Feature continues

A great story from Paul Slade about ‘Lobby Lud’, a real-life competitive version of 'Where’s Wally' that was done by the Westminster Gazette in 1927. It’s a fascinating read.

There’s also some fantastic London history from Another Nickel In The Machine, who follows in the footsteps of Martin Luther KIng's assassin James Earl Ray. Ray fled from Memphis to Canada to London in 1968. He was eventually spotted and arrested with a false passport at Heathrow while trying to leave the country.

An Indian expat falls in love with London. I love the touching naivety that ‘I came here expecting regimented routine where things never go wrong, where buses always run on time.’ He’s since learnt better. Welcome to London!

Finally, a lovely video from John Rogers’s Islingtongue blog of a wander in the countryside around Loughton. You should also check out John’s film, ‘The London Perambulator’, featuring Will Self and Iain Sinclar, which I hope to cover in more detail soon.