Time Out London magazine (Issue 1902)

ISSUE 1902 THE COPS AND ROBBERS ISSUE The Metropolitan Police: London’s friends or foes? After violent clashes with reform rioters, anti-fascist marchers, anti-racist demonstrators, striking miners, anti-globalisation protestors, London’s venerable bobbys are now painted as a symbol of excessive aggression against legitimate social protest. Or is this just a left wing myth? In this riveting issue, Time Out speaks exclusively to David Blunkett and Sir Ian Blair and investigates the long, turbulent relationship between London and the Met PLUS Gangs of the underworld! Time Out delves into London’s grim heritage of terror and turf wars. AND CSI London! Time Out lifts the lid on the gruesome business of policing – we enter Scotland Yard’s own chamber of horrors! PLUS London’s best loos! We uncover the lavs that everyone should visit, the latest from the Sundance Film Festival and we speak to London’s unlikely success in the USA: Lady Sovereign!