Stag Beetle Season approaches (they start to fly in May) so it's worth celebrating the fact that not only is South East London one of the world's most important habitats for stag beetles (thanks to our big gardens and plentiful supplies of rotting wood) but that Hilly Fields itself is a stag beetle centre of ...

Lionel sent us this picture of a new outbreak of signs in Hilly Fields, which he says appear next to lamp posts every few metres.Without wishing to sound like Nigel Farage ourselves, this is everything that is wrong with public spending. Unnecessary, unaccountable, ugly and in an age of austerity, unfathomable.Whoever thought spending money to ...