London
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Review: Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show, Comedy Store
Note – a shorter version of this review is in today’s Morning Star newspaper. The Comedy Store is showing its age. The logo is very eighties, as are much of its regular clientele. Most are here to see Paul Merton, him off the telly, who has been doing improv for longer than your correspondent can… Read more
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National March for Palestine, 11th November 2023
This was the biggest one yet – estimates of 800,000, and certainly the largest UK protest since the anti-Iraq war one twenty years ago. I received a lot of messages from friends telling me to “stay safe” and “be careful”, which makes me worry that people are increasingly afraid to assert their rights. Certainly the… Read more
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Mom’s Room, West Kensington, October 2023
This is officially the first event I’ve been to in an abandoned primary school. Self described as “an elegant and filthy comedy night”, I headed along to Mom’s Room, an extremely alternative and experimental comedy show – after seeing my suburban pals in New Malden, for maximum juxtaposition. It was only en route that I… Read more
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