Where to get your Pancake Day fix in Islington
Shrove Tuesday is here, better known perhaps as Pancake Day! Images of pancakes fill Instagram feeds, oozing with syrup, burnished with blueberries, (almost) Biblical...
Space Nazis and rogue A.I. in Angel? Don’t worry, it’s only an escape room!
For those who grew up watching Takeshi’s Castle and The Crystal Maze, the prospect of working in one of their inner-city equivalents, escape rooms,...
How hiring a life coach is like talking to a drunk girl at 3am
Every woman at some point in their life has met (or been) a “bathroom girl”. The “bathroom girl” is the girl you meet among...
Meet the Granny taking on the government over prisoners’ right to vote
For many, old age is an opportunity to sit down and put their feet up. But 73-year-old Sheila Field sees her senior years as...
Tackling the tampon tax: how an Islington charity is fighting period poverty
Sanitary products are taxed as a ‘non-essential, luxury item’, unlike ‘alcoholic jellies’ and ‘exotic meats’. This ‘tampon tax’ means that women are denied access...
‘People have turned into pigeons’: Getting our heads out of our phones and into nature with tour guide Jane Parker
Finding the greenery in Islington, London’s least green borough, Jane Parker leads walking tours to reacquaint locals with their surroundings.