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Why I'll spend tomorrow helping the homeless

IN A past life, I must have been bad. Really bad. Because today, knowing my luck, I'll probably either be cleaning the toilets or freezing my...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 12/01/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
Science must not invent new myths about race

SCIENCE and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 11/16/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
THE BIG EASY COMES BACK

NAWLINS, as the locals say in their languid, warm Southern drawl, is a city dedicated to the rhythms of joy and to the pulse of life's...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 10/28/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
Enough Mary Seacole -- black Britain needs new icons

THE soporific tedium and predictability of Black History Month celebrations are getting me down already. We're still only at the beginning of...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 10/09/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
New York's divisions show up our racial harmony

SPIKE LEE'S classic 1989 New York movie Do The Right Thing -- screened by the NFT tonight as part of its Fight The Power season, followed by...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 09/21/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
GLASGOW ROCKS

FORGET Trainspotting, the Gorbals, the tedious "See you, Jimmy" jokes. Glasgow is an intoxicating place to be right now. Within minutes of...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 09/16/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication

This faux ghetto street-talk drives me mad, innit

THE PUBLICATION of GCSE results today should tell us something about the standard of English in schools. Outside of schools, I fear for...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 08/27/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
We can't let the top deck become a no-go zone

LAST week I almost came to blows on the top deck of a rush-hour bus with a truculent teenage hoody who was intent on deafening everyone by...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 08/17/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
Get out of the ghetto and enjoy London's great art

IN THE past fortnight I have been to see Ibsen's The Ghosts at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston, the (free) From Corot to Monet exhibition at...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 08/10/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication
The little green men put Streatham on the map

THE ALIENS have landed. And of all the places they chose to make contact, they chose Streatham, the quintessence of south London ghetto chic....
Evening Standard; London (UK), 07/27/09 by Lindsay Johns · More from publication