by John Cookson | Jan 27, 2026 | Culture, News
Less than 24 hours after flames tore through the legendary Kensington Roof Gardens, the club’s bosses have vowed it will reopen this week. A dramatic late-night inferno sparked a major emergency response as 80 firefighters in 12 engines raced to Kensington High...
by Citizen Reporter | Jan 19, 2026 | Culture
The Last Bantam is a one-hour, one-man play that reveals the incredible and forgotten story of the ‘Bantam’ soldiers – 30,000 men between 5ft-5ft 3” who signed up to fight in the Great War. It is told through the eyes of Patrick Michael Wolfe, a Dubliner who...
by Rob McGibbon | Jan 13, 2026 | Culture, Reviewz
‘A quiet, multi-layered play with wit, warmth and melancholy that draws you in and leaves its mark. It has “rasa’ in abundance’ FOUR STARZ 1930, India. Flora Crewe, a noted Bloomsbury Group poet, undertakes a journey through India for her...
by Citizen Reporter | Nov 24, 2025 | Culture, News
Belgravia’s five-star hotspot The Hari was the place to be last week as the art glitterati packed into the luxury hotel for the 2025 Hari Art Prize — with three rising stars walking away with a share of a £14,000 prize pot. Now in only its fourth year, the competition...
by Rob McGibbon | Oct 9, 2025 | Culture, News
Veteran news broadcaster John Simpson has spoken for the first time of the moment he sought solace from a Chelsea vicar as he struggled with the psychology fallout from a devastating bomb attack in Iraq. Simpson was covering the Iraq war in 2003 when he and his TV...
by Rob McGibbon | Sep 24, 2025 | Culture, Interviews
Distinguished journalist and broadcaster John Simpson CBE has a lasting love for Chelsea. He lived in the area for many years, until some uncertainty about his career at the BBC forced him to move. He returns this week for an Author’s Talk as part of the Chelsea Book...
