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March 2026

📖 A London Noir Classic

Stench: The axe in the head murder. It’s the mid-1980s and south-east London is a melting pot of crime and corruption. This debut novel takes you back to a time of striking printers, immoral journalists, unprincipled freemasons, corrupt police and a well-documented murder. The concise fast-paced direct prose serves to heighten the unfolding drama. This work draws heavily on actual events, and as the narrative unfolds the line between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. This meticulously researched work gives an impression that you’re a senior investigating officer reading the available evidence. The author’s Mickey Spillane writing style makes a refreshing change from the flowery language overused by today’s authors. Published by micro-indie publisher Black Rat Books.

💬 Geeks’ Corner

Well, it looks as though WordPress has finally discarded their original system, now only Gutenberg can be used in any editing. I’ve written code since the early 80s and I still find the ‘improved’ platform one of the worst I’ve encountered. Trying to write in HTML is almost impossible, as some characters are obscured beneath another section. Coupled with that, some of their flagship legacy widgets have been altered changing the date line and removing headings. Whinge over.

🚆 Mind The Map

How well do you know the Tube map? The Londonist pointed me in the direction of this infuriating game, in which you have to find six tube stations on a map against a stress-inducing countdown timer. Those of you who have no knowledge of, or interest in, London and its underground rail network, should look away now. Play it here.

🎥 Cabbie – The Movie

London’s black cab trade is set to feature at the centre of a new British action heist comedy film titled Cabbie. The producers have launched a crowdfunding campaign to begin filming a short pilot this spring, to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of a full feature production. The story centres on a working-class London character named Ed, whose father’s garage collapsed after ride-hailing services entered the market. Unable to secure finance to revive the business, Ed resorts to unconventional methods to reclaim what his family has lost. . .

❓ 40 Billion to One

The Knowledge school WizAnn have calculated that Knowledge boys and girls face the theoretical possibility of more than 40 million different questions during assessments. The premise is that with around 6,400 locations currently existing within the oral appearances section of the Knowledge syllabus, when those locations are combined into potential start and end destination pairings, the number of possible questions expands dramatically. The probability of any single specific question being asked becomes even smaller when multiple candidates are preparing at the same time. Analysis suggests that if around 1,000 students were studying the Knowledge simultaneously, the chance of any individual candidate being asked one particular route question could theoretically fall to around 40 billion to one.