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Whitechapel, the heart of the East

During the final years of the 19th Century it was the scene of the crimes of Jack the Ripper. It has since become a peaceful and picturesque area inhabited, mostly, by the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities of London.   Benjamin Serra   Anyone who takes the District or Hammersmith & […]

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Great Britain, an island of identity

T.S. Eliot famously said that ‘culture’ was something that included ‘all the characteristics, activities and interests of a people’, an apt definition for British identity. The Prisma’s Memoirs. November 2012   Georgina Campbell   It is by no means an easy feat to pinpoint specifically what British culture is and […]

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A journey to the heart of The City

Thousands of people move quickly from side to side oblivious to anything not work-related. This is London at its most impersonal.– – Javier Marcos – The never ending toing and froing renders it inescapable, with impeccably turned out businessmen going from side to side, glued to their mobile phones. They […]