Tag: SW3

  • Exit or lunch?

    Exit or lunch?

    As Julian Assange reportedly is to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, he also offers himself as a lunch date there for £30,000

     

    This morning, yet more police officers have gathered outside the Embassy of Ecuador in Hans Crescent after it has been reported that Julian Assange is about to hand himself in. If this rumour proves true, bidders in an online auction could be very disappointed. (more…)

  • Angry Assange

    Angry Assange

    Julian Assange expresses his anger against the British government

     

    Today, in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Julian Assange expressed his anger that he has been denied what he sees as his human rights by the British government. This arrogant individual – who imposed himself upon the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge in June 2012 – has no right to complain: he chose this course of action and it is time he accepted that. (more…)

  • Putting the ‘Great’ back in Britain

    Putting the ‘Great’ back in Britain

    Mr Gus Instinct calls for Britain to wake up and respect itself once more (more…)

  • Overheard: 8th August

    Overheard: 8th August

    Classic clangers from the last week (more…)

  • Robert Walton: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    Robert Walton: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”

    The Steeple Times asks The Nth Degree Club’s founder Robert Walton MBE: “What’s on your mantelpiece?” (more…)

  • Skugging the Kings Road

    Skugging the Kings Road

    Skin care muggers shockingly set up shop the Kings Road

     

    What on earth is Earl Cadogan thinking? Two companies anyone sensible would avoid have been allowed to open up opposite one another on the Kings Road. How on earth did the area’s biggest landlord allow this travesty to happen? (more…)

  • Picture of the Week: As bold as gold

    Picture of the Week: As bold as gold

    A gold and black Bugatti Veyron has eclipsed the gold Ferrari owned by Iraqi kick-boxer named Riyadh Al-Azzawi in terms of being the most gaudy car on the roads in London this summer

     

    This summer Iraqi kick-boxer Riyadh Al-Azzawi has reveled in the attention he’s received as he drove around the streets of Chelsea and Knightsbridge in his gold Ferrari. Despite the £4,000 foil wrap bubbling up and peeling off, the Iraqi kick-boxer cruised around thinking he was the King of the Hill. His reign is over as now the mantle for London’s most gaudy car has been stolen by a gold and black Bugatti Veyron. (more…)

  • Charity begins next to a kebab shop

    Charity begins next to a kebab shop

    Lady Meyer takes a pay cheque from the City Bridge Trust

     

    Featured in The Telegraph in 2011 due to the curious way it allocated its income, the charity founded by the “Chanel-clad” wife of the former British ambassador to Washington, Lady Meyer, is back in the news after receiving a grant of £60,000 from the City Bridge Trust. Naturally, she, herself, is set to receive 10% of this personally. (more…)

  • Overheard: 29th July

    Overheard: 29th July

    Classic clangers from the last week

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  • Larry and Leigh’s love nest

    Larry and Leigh’s love nest

    Small, unmodernised former home of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh for sale for the extraordinary figure of £7.5 million

     

    Built in 1850, Durham Cottage in Christchurch Street, Chelsea is a house “hidden behind a high dusty brick wall” that was the love nest of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh between 1937 and 1956. Now, in totally unmodernised condition, the house is for sale after failing to sell at auction (despite a bid of £6,980,000). (more…)