Antonia Filmer

Encountering Bhupen Khakhar’s art at London’s Tate Modern

Tate Modern, London’s towering museum of modern art, is just closing Bhupen Khakhar’s first international retrospective of paintings since his death, covering five decades....

Indian diaspora celebrates diwali

From Downing Street to the Palace of Westminster the Indian diaspora of Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities gathered to celebrate Diwali in London. At No...

Apples are at the heart of the English countryside experience

Sir Roger Scruton is England’s most charmingly self-deprecating philosopher and polemicist, he is admired from Swindon to Kolkata, he specialises in aesthetics with a...

Apples are at the heart of the English countryside experience

Sir Roger Scruton is England’s most charmingly self-deprecating philosopher and polemicist, he is admired from Swindon to Kolkata, he specialises in aesthetics with a...

Apples are at the heart of the English countryside experience

Sir Roger Scruton is England’s most charmingly self-deprecating philosopher and polemicist, he is admired from Swindon to Kolkata, he specialises in aesthetics with a...

East Africa is world’s new oil hotspot

East Africa is fast becoming one of the world’s most interesting oil and gas hotspots. Tullow Oil is a UK oil and gas exploration...

Painting holidays for a welcome escape from the pressures of work

Painting holidays are in vogue, during the summer month’s country houses in Andalucia, Tuscany, the Languedoc and various Aegean Islands offer quality residential courses...

Painting holidays for a welcome escape from the pressures of work

Painting holidays are in vogue, during the summer month’s country houses in Andalucia, Tuscany, the Languedoc and various Aegean Islands offer quality residential courses...

Painting holidays for a welcome escape from the pressures of work

Painting holidays are in vogue, during the summer month’s country houses in Andalucia, Tuscany, the Languedoc and various Aegean Islands offer quality residential courses...

Chinese railway may bring Uhuru back to power in Kenya

Kenya is gearing up to a general election in August next year. There are accusations and likely to be unfulfilled promises flung in every...

Tory MP Villiers wants Cyprus reunification

Since the Conservative Party Conference early in October, Theresa Villiers, MP, is looking forward to her role as a backbencher. Villiers plans to campaign...

Celebrating the best of Jewish art and cultural heritage

Paul Taylor is by birthanAnglo-Israeli and an artist but his inherent Jewish charm and profound understanding of Judaism and art are obvious. Last year...

Celebrating the best of Jewish art and cultural heritage

Paul Taylor is by birthanAnglo-Israeli and an artist but his inherent Jewish charm and profound understanding of Judaism and art are obvious. Last year...

Celebrating the best of Jewish art and cultural heritage

Paul Taylor is by birthanAnglo-Israeli and an artist but his inherent Jewish charm and profound understanding of Judaism and art are obvious. Last year...

Petition asks UK to condemn terrorism by Pakistan

In Washington on 21 September 2016, Congressman Ted Poe, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, introduced petition H.R.6069, asking the US Administration to...

Celebrating cultural excellence with the ‘Oscars for museums’

The Leading Culture Destinations Awards (LDCA), sponsored by Bang & Olufsen are better known as “The Oscars for Museums,” were announced this week at...

Celebrating cultural excellence with the ‘Oscars for museums’

The Leading Culture Destinations Awards (LDCA), sponsored by Bang & Olufsen are better known as “The Oscars for Museums,” were announced this week at...

Celebrating cultural excellence with the ‘Oscars for museums’

The Leading Culture Destinations Awards (LDCA), sponsored by Bang & Olufsen are better known as “The Oscars for Museums,” were announced this week at...

2002 behind her, May finds a new Nasty Party

Breaking with tradition, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May addressed the Conservative Conference on the first day about how Britain was going to leave the...

Brahma and Brahmani returned

On 30 September, Navtej Sarna, High Commissioner of India in London received a 12th century sculpture of Brahma and Brahmani, recovered by the Art...

Confident Corbyn wows crowd at Liverpool

At Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, Jeremy Corbyn wowed the crowd. After his astounding re-election, his demeanour was confident, as he talked about the...

Johnson meets Erdogan, White Helmets

UK’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had a series of discussions with Turkish President Recep Erdogan, underlining an apparently strong relationship between the UK and...

Why send flowers when you can send biscuits?

The British love baking and most of us have a sweet tooth, we can spot a good culinary idea from 100 yards away, which...

Why send flowers when you can send biscuits?

The British love baking and most of us have a sweet tooth, we can spot a good culinary idea from 100 yards away, which...

Why send flowers when you can send biscuits?

The British love baking and most of us have a sweet tooth, we can spot a good culinary idea from 100 yards away, which...

Conservatives host transforming India roundtable

The Conservative Friends of India (CFI) hosted a roundtable at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London on 21 September. The CFI is an actively...

London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan visits America

Sadiq Khan, London’s new mayor and arguably western Europe’s most significant Muslim, has been in Montreal, Chicago and New York promoting his message that...

Catwalks at the London Fashion Week rocked the English capital

London Fashion Week (LFW) has rocked the catwalks in the capital and welcomed over 5,000 overseas guests from 58 countries proving London is a...

Catwalks at the London Fashion Week rocked the English capital

London Fashion Week (LFW) has rocked the catwalks in the capital and welcomed over 5,000 overseas guests from 58 countries proving London is a...

Catwalks at the London Fashion Week rocked the English capital

London Fashion Week (LFW) has rocked the catwalks in the capital and welcomed over 5,000 overseas guests from 58 countries proving London is a...

‘Whistle-blowers should be encouraged, protected by law’

Research on the law and practice of whistle-blowing has been conducted at Middlesex University since 1993. In 2015, a Whistle-blowing Research Unit (WRU) was...

United Kingdom plans equal-sized parliamentary constituencies

The first draft of boundary changes of parliamentary constituencies has been proposed in the United Kingdom. The changes aim to equalise the number of...

Cara Delevingne is the 2016 face for gynaecological cancer

In the UK 20,000 women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer (ovarian, womb, cervical, vaginal and vulval) every year and of these more than...

Cara Delevingne is the 2016 face for gynaecological cancer

In the UK 20,000 women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer (ovarian, womb, cervical, vaginal and vulval) every year and of these more than...

Cara Delevingne is the 2016 face for gynaecological cancer

In the UK 20,000 women are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer (ovarian, womb, cervical, vaginal and vulval) every year and of these more than...

Inside London’s most exclusive private hospital

King Edward VII is London most exclusive private hospital and the “by appointment” hospital of the Royal Family. On arrival the reception is more...

Inside London’s most exclusive private hospital

King Edward VII is London most exclusive private hospital and the “by appointment” hospital of the Royal Family. On arrival the reception is more...

Inside London’s most exclusive private hospital

King Edward VII is London most exclusive private hospital and the “by appointment” hospital of the Royal Family. On arrival the reception is more...

Japan cautions UK on Brexit

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will not be taunted or intimidated by either heads of state, members of any Parliament or the pugnacious Laura...

With Anjem choudary in jail, UK frets over ‘prison extremism’

Britain has locked up the extremist Anjem Choudary of the now-banned Al-Muhajiroun and the most prominent hate preacher in UK, finally. The establishment is...

The Notting Hill Carnival begins in London

The Notting Hill Carnival begins in London on Sunday 28th August, the largest street festival in Europe and the second largest carnival in the...

The Notting Hill Carnival begins in London

The Notting Hill Carnival begins in London on Sunday 28th August, the largest street festival in Europe and the second largest carnival in the...

The Notting Hill Carnival begins in London

The Notting Hill Carnival begins in London on Sunday 28th August, the largest street festival in Europe and the second largest carnival in the...

Potential caste legislation in UK makes Dharma communities anxious

Pressure is mounting in Westminster to review the Equality Act of 2010 to include discrimination on the basis of caste, as part of race...

UK’s annual Ahmadiyya meet starts

Britain’s largest annual Islamic gathering organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community began on 12 August and will continue for three days. Ahmadi Muslims, one...

PM May’s summer honeymoon is about to get over

British Prime Minister Theresa May is enjoying a prime ministerial honeymoon, with the Conservative lead up to 42% over Labour’s 28%. May’s personal lead...

From Edwardian England to the Palace of Versailles

The actor Harry Hadden-Paton is probably Britain’s favourite aristocrat thanks to his role as 7th Marquess of Hexham in the television posh soap opera...

From Edwardian England to the Palace of Versailles

The actor Harry Hadden-Paton is probably Britain’s favourite aristocrat thanks to his role as 7th Marquess of Hexham in the television posh soap opera...

From Edwardian England to the Palace of Versailles

The actor Harry Hadden-Paton is probably Britain’s favourite aristocrat thanks to his role as 7th Marquess of Hexham in the television posh soap opera...

‘In the Army, work and play are synonymous’

Lord Karan Bilimoria is the first Parsi Peer in the House of Lords. His maternal grandfather, D.D. Italia was a member of the Council...

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