Results tagged “Daily Mail”

It's got a bit of history to it this Ideal Home Show business. Unlike many of the massive events gracing London's exhibition centres, this one has a lineage that goes back more than 100 years. It was founded by the Daily Mail in 1908, the same year Suffragettes were chaining themselves to railings in a bid to get the vote, Ford's first Model T rolled off the production line and work on the first tower in the UK to use reinforced concrete - The Royal Liver Building - had just begun.

What should we expect from actor and comedian Kevin Eldon's new show? Apparently, a selection of well-rehearsed readings, poetry and verse from "an Islington nob".

Ahead of his appearance at the Greenwich Comedy Festival tonight, The Wharf's Steven Davies caught up with the man himself to find out what makes him tick and ticks him off.

Climate camp has been set up in Blackheath for a week, in which time activists have launched actions against London targets such as Barclays, Shell, RBS and even the Daily Mail.

As the tents and haystacks come down, The Wharf talks to camp spokesman Peter McDonnell about the event and its long-term impact.

Russell Brand: Scandalous
The O2 arena
3/5

"Russell Brand goes for the jugular and the undergarment with the same sense of glint-eyed, orgiastic devilment."