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Nelson's Column July Moving On From 7/7 29th July 2005 London Reacts to the Suicide Bombings This month, the thoughts and prayers of everyone the world over have been with the victims of the bombings which took place on 7 July. Thousands have signed the condolence book outside City Hall. Millions observed the two-minute silence. As I stood in Leicester Square with my colleagues, my heart went out to everyone affected by this tragedy. They will be remembered. Three weeks later, and the only tangible thing left for Londoners to do to honour the victims is to carry on with life in the capital as they did before. To acknowledge what happened, but to dismiss extremism and celebrate, instead, the strength of our British spirit and sense of pride in our capital city. London is a safe, welcoming, effervescent place to live. There’s so much happening in London this summer, much of which celebrates the city’s diversity and total acceptance – the Notting Hill Carnival, the London Mela and The Caribbean Connection film festival epitomise this better than any statistics possibly could. It’s heartening to see the streets crowded with Londoners and visitors alike enjoying everything the city has to offer - which is vast and growing more each year. Terrorism can and will never win. Terrorist leaders have no interest in a cessation of hostilities, and obviously no concern with redressing the poverty and injustice which provides their recruits. Peaceful and legitimate protest is a far more useful tool for reform, and one which the terrorists sought deliberately to undermine by bombing as the G8 summit met. London is getting on with life and, if anything, savouring even more deeply everything that it stands for - equality, diversity, education, inspiration and fun. Let’s take some sensible precautions and let’s move on. Let’s reach out to our million Muslim friends in the city. Let’s stand united. And let's say thanks to the world for caring about us. No To War On Haw Tremendous news today, as peace campaigner Brian Haw won the right to continue his protest vigil on Parliament Square. Brian has been camped out there for over four years, and judges therefore ruled he did not have to apply for permission to be there and could not be evicted under the 2005 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act... even though it was specifically drafted by politicians tired of his tedious megaphone rants... In your face, law makers! New Direction On The South Bank Jude Kelly was appointed the first ever Artistic Director of the South Bank this week. This is great news for the centre, as Kelly has a formidable track record, and has also directed over 100 productions herself. Coming out of the BAC in the 1980s, the lady is no bureaucrat. Her appointment does beg the question, who was running the shop up to now? The mice? Tate Sticking To Not Stocking Stuckists Tate Director Nicholas Serota mystified the art world this week by rejecting a collection of over 160 works by The Stuckists, a group of traditional painters based in the UK whose recent show in Liverpool was a gigantic success. Perhaps he was displeased by the caricature of himself included in the collection, in which he holds up a pair of red knickers and asks the viewer "Are they genuine Emin? Or a worthless fake?" July 2008 24th July Sandwiched Out 17th July The Show Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Lady's on Page 3 June 2008 26th June Love All at Wimbledon 16th June Miller Puts the Heat on Tennant May 2008 27th May Booze Banned on Buses 20th May Same Again? April 2008 23rd April By George 11th April Back to the 80s March 2008 28th March How do You Solve A Problem Like Medea? 20th March Flight Fantastic February 2008 20th February Dark, Satanic Turnmills 6th February A Diamond in the Drink January 2008 21st January People Wanted for Plinth 14th January Boo! Hiss! December 2007 28th December Tate That - A Hirst for Art 20th December Christmas Shopping November 2007 27th November Mind the Gap 26th November London On A Tray October 2007 26th October Leaving the Station 14th October The Sky's the Limit September 2007 26th September The Play Within A Play 19th September Fashion, Frocks and Celeb Shocks 12th September Saying Tanks for the Mammaries August 2007 24th August Heathrow under Siege 17th August Gormless 10th August Losing Face July 2007 24th July Are We Reaching Boiling Point Yet This Summer? 13th July Red Ken versus Blonde Boris June 2007 22nd June Last Orders at the Fag Machine 11th June London the Musical May 2007 21st May What Lurks Beneath 10th May The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of April 2007 27th April London’s Walk on the Wild Side 20th April Stand Behind the Yellow Line 13th April Like Water for Chocolate March 2007 23rd March So, Another Magazine 16th March Avoiding iContact February 2007 23rd February Sex and Art... 16th February C-Charge Protest Fails to Bring Down Government 9th February Live Earth London January 2007 26th January A Vote for Shilpa is a Vote for Britain 18th January Carriage on up the West End December 2006 29th December Food for Thought 22nd December A Poisonous Marketing Campaign 15th December In for a Penny, In for Five Pounds November 2006 17th November Big Department Stores Leave Santa Out in the Cold 10th November Failing to Save the World October 2006 27th October Frozen Prawns and Melting Icecaps 20th October Predatory Pelicans and Happy Woodland Folk 13th October Hope at last for east end of Oxford Street September 2006 16th September Lite the Blue Paper and Stand Well Back 9th September Of Poles and Twiglets August 2006 25th August Free Fares For the Fat and the Fashionable 11th August London Friendly 4th August Archway To Organic Heaven July 2006 21st July London - Celebrity Frat House 7th July Out of the Galleries into the Streets June 2006 23rd June Mayors, Nightmares and Marias 16th June Downright Rude in Paris and London 9th June Enter the Inferno May 2006 26th May Curvaceous Border 12th May Vegging Out April 2006 21st April The Camden Crawl 17th April Down the Pan 13th April I Want to Break Free 9th April Big Brother seems to have been left in a bar somewhere 7th April Don't Box Me In March 2006 24th March Political Correctness Reaches New Heights February 2006 24th February A Stadium's Tale: Cup Final Goes West 17th February Modern Musicals are Rubbish 10th February The City-Side Alliance January 2006 20th January February Sales 20th January Moby Sick 13th January Glass Half Full 3rd January Three Cheers for the Tube Station Workers December 2005 22nd December January Bites 16th December A Remarkable Year November 2005 25th November And a Partridge in a JCB 11th November Driving Miss Sadie 4th November Spam, Spam, Spammity-Spam, Shakespeare, Zorro, Chico and Rasputin October 2005 28th October Trick or Treat? 21st October We Don't Mind a Little Delay... 14th October Final Resting Place for Young British Artists September 2005 16th September Just a small urn for me, please barman 9th September DRINK! DRINK! DRINK! 2nd September The Free Tenor August 2005 30th August Samba Rhythms Breaking Out All Over The Stadium 20th August Getting Behind the Iron Farce 10th August Mystery Play is No Sell Out July 2005 29th July Moving On From 7/7 22nd July Get loaded in the park 15th July Victoire!! June 2005 24th June New Balls, Please 17th June The End of an Unsightly Era 10th June The Hooded Law May 2005