The Time Out London blog team

When the Superloop first launched in 2023, it became an overnight star in London. By the end of 2024, 88 percent of punters found the speedy bus service – which links up destinations in the outer reaches of the city – better than regular buses. 93 percent said they’d use them again. Well, here’s even more good news: a new Superloop service is due to take its place among the dozen others currently zipping about the capital. After a consultation last October, TfL has now announced that a Superloop bus route will link up south London’s Clapham Junction and Eltham. Dubbed the SL15, it’s due to come into operation in 2027. In total, 1,897 Londoners responded to the proposals, of whom 91 percent reckoned the route would be more convenient than existing transport options in the area. In more positive feedback, 84 per cent believed journey times would be reduced and 74 per cent said they’d be more likely to use the Superloop than travel by car. All in all, it sounds like a win for public transport, though some respondents worried about increased congestion along the A205 South Circular. On a more positive note, 217 people also added their signatures to a petition successfully requesting an additional stop at Christ Church – power to the people! So, where exactly can you expect to find the SL15? The route will pick up passengers at bus stops V and E towards Clapham Junction, before standing at Grant Road, and serve stops G and T towards Eltham. The new Superloop will take in 18...

For anyone and everyone inspired by International Women’s Day last weekend (March 8) to keep the conversation around equality going, we have good news for you. Billed as ‘the world’s biggest, most comprehensive festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people’, Women of the World festival, or WOW for short, has announced its return to the Southbank Centre next year. WOW is the brainchild of theatre director Jude Kelly CBE, who launched the festival in 2010 when she was artistic director at the Southbank Centre. Since its debut, it’s fair to say the festival has had serious global success, putting on 150 festivals around the world in places like Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somaliland and the USA.  Luckily for us Londoners, WOW is returning to its hometown in 2027. The flagship festival is set to take over Royal Festival Hall on March 5-7 2027. The lineup for next year’s event is still under wraps, but speakers, activists, musicians, artists and comedians are all expected to take the stage over three days. Previous guests include mighty names like Angela Davis, Annie Lennox, Patrick Stewart, Malala Yousafzai and Salma Hayek. Ahead of next year’s fest, WOW hosted a roundtable this week (on March 10) to address violence against women and girls. According to the National Police Chief's Council, one woman was killed by a man every three days in 2025 and one in 12 women experienced violence.  Photograph: Women of...

If you’d thought that Quentin Tarantino writing a West End play was something you’d maybe made up or imagined in a weird dream, join the club. However, after initial, vague plans were announced last year by the auteur director himself, it’s been confirmed that this is really happening. Not only that, but we’ve got some actual concrete information about it. Steered by West End super producer Sonia Friedman – currently riding high from last year’s smash Paddington the Musical – Tarantino’s debut play will be a comedy set in 1830s Europe called The Popinjay Cavalier. We’re promised ‘a sweeping celebration of theatre and its heightened romance, a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise, told with Tarantino’s signature style and unmistakable wit’. On one hand that sounds borderline twee for a new work by darkly comic cinema provocateur Tarantino. On the other hand, it feels like ‘signature style and unmistakable wit’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, given there are those who would argue that in his case these things could best be characterised as ‘characters shooting each other while calling each other motherfucker’. That really is all we know for now, beyond the fact that The Popinjay Cavalier is scheduled to debut in a TBA West End theatre in early 2027. Currently there’s no detail of casting or indeed of creatives: the odds surely are that there’s a director in place by now, and of course people want to know if it’s liable to be Tarantino himself or a hired...