It's
our weekly London roundup starting with a few headlines that caught the eye in
London over the last week or so, click the links for the full stories…
Compiled & Edited by Adam Scott-Goulding
US
ELECTION: Stop Trump Bus Tours London. Video from CNN…
LONDON
SUBCULTURE: Death of the Soho Sex Shop?
Prowler
is a conspicuously friendly store; it opens at 11am on weekdays and is soon
peppered with adults of all ages, browsing the shelves as if it were a Tesco
Metro. No shifty glances or brown paper bags here.
"We
have a lot of couples coming in," says Phillips, "we have hen dos,
girls coming in for their boyfriends to buy underwear for them."
Where
sex is concerned, Phillips says, the personal touch is essential — trained
staff who can run customers through what's what. Funnily enough, that's
something you might not have got years ago.
Full
story in The Londonist
LONDON
CULTURE: The North-South Divide - Time Out treats us to five North Londoner
clichés…
The
north Londoner treats the south Londoner like an arrival from a remote
Amazonian village. The unfortunate south Londoner, they think, hasn’t heard of
the tube, let alone been on one, so they must be guided through life in the
big, bad city – ushered away from the tourist traps and led to the decent
pop-ups. Next they’ll be asking the south Londoner if they have an indoor loo.
More
in Time Out: www.timeout.com
In Brief
SPORT:
After NFL Is Major League Baseball Coming to London? – Travel Pulse
TRANSPORT:
Mayor Presses On With Walking-Cycling Agenda – Financial Times
FOOTBALL:
One-Third Of All Chelsea "Fans" Have Never Been To Stamford Bridge –
Daily Telegraph
LONDON
PROPERTY: Lambeth in Focus – The Guardian
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT: Mayor Orders Review of Garden Bridge – BBC
Some
Recent Highlights from The Daily Constitutional…
Monday:
A Wembley Photoblog
Thursday:
Colombian art at the Koppell Project
Walking & Footwear News
The
North London primary school that forced the kids to walk like Prince Phillip
has abandoned their strange policy…
An ‘outstanding’ primary school has been
forced to back down on a rule ordering children to walk with their hands clasped
behind their backs 'at all times' after a revolt from parents, it has emerged.
Last year pupils at St George the Martyr
Primary School in Camden, north London, were told they must walk in the
'correct way' in school corridors, which school bosses called the 'University
Walk'.
The term is believed to derive from how
students at elite universities - such as Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews -
were told to walk in bygone years.
'Maximise learning time' and 'raise their
aspirations'
Angela Abrahams brought in the rule last
year when she was head teacher, much to the fury of parents, in a bid to
"strengthen pupil safety, maximise learning time" and "raise
their aspirations".
Full story The Daily Telegraph.
Seen in London This Week…
As
regular Daily Constitutionalists will know, I'm logging a London plaque every
day during 2016 in the #Plaque366 project.*
*The Daily Constitutional will be keeping the plaques to a bare minimum in 2017!
On
Wednesday I collected one that would normally have fallen outwith even the most
irregular of my London perambulations…
Peter
Quaife was a founder member of seminal English rock band The Kinks and I caught
his plaque when visiting Fortismere School on its open day for parents and
prospective pupils! I'll add him to #Plaque366 next week
London
Spy will return next week
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