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The Duke
Tucked away on a backstreet between tourist-trodden Bloomsbury and start-up central Clerkenwell, The Duke is a good place to escape museumgoers and media...
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Shakespeares Head
The Shakespeares Head may look a little daunting from the outside. Don’t be shy: this salt-of-the-earth local extends a warm welcome to all. It’s...
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Gowlett
The Gowlett still looks like a proper boozer, albeit an antique wood-panelled, minimalist boozer – which is something of an achievement round here. The...
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Hamlet
Hiran Abeysekera is very entertaining as a fully mad prince in the National Theatre’s scrappy indie ‘Hamlet’
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Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion
The Barbican digs up a fantastic collection of stained, frayed and decayed garms that any CSM student would die for
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Elf the Musical
The stage adaptation of the beloved Will Ferrell film bounds joyously back into town
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The Lost Bus
Matthew McConaugh stands between a bus load of kids and the 2018 California wildfires in Paul Greengrass’s thrilling survival story
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One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio is a blast as a bumbling revolutionary in Paul Thomas Anderson’s action-packed, politically-charged romp
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The best walks near London
From seaside strolls along white cliffs to beautiful woodland treks, here are the best walks within easy reach of London
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The best day trips within an hour from London
‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ the great 18th-century poet Samuel Johnson once said. Still, there’s no denying a break...
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6 brilliant bike rides outside the capital
Plan one of these beautiful cycle rides from London, featuring well-ridden tracks, scenic river paths and a few nasty hill climbs
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