Keeping you well-armed for dinner parties and chit chat since day one, this week's top talking points and brain-ticklings range from Coleen Rooney's Proust-worthy Twitter prose to The Connaught's nomination in The World’s 50 Best Bars

Seventy years after the world was introduced to Room 101, the Thought Police and Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we revisit the author’s terrifying vision of London as the capital of Airstrip One

This week's top talking points, from BFI Film Festival to an uncanny representation of Her Majesty

The Founder of The Art of Wishes on her art collections and the powers of a One True Wish

Conor McDonnell, the 27-year-old Liverpudlian who shot Kim and Kanye's wedding and mentors Brooklyn Beckham, discusses turning his lens towards the most pressing subject of them all - the environment 

As Frieze fever hits London, here's what not to miss during this year's annual art extravaganza 

Touch, pause, engage: here's where to watch the Rugby World Cup in style this weekend 

Your guide to this weekend's top talking points, including Ralph Lauren's new Rachel Green-inspired collection

As the V&A's latest fashion-crowd pleaser, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, opens in London, exhibition curator Susanna Brown discusses the bigger picture 

Autumn buys, books and BDE – this is the fashion, food and frenemy we can't stop talking about this week

As the Downtown Abbey film hits cinemas, Imelda Staunton discusses her four-decade career, working alongside her husband and the importance of humour

Ahead of Goodwood Revival this weekend, Connolly England hosts an exhibition dedicated to the petrolhead's paradise with photography by Koto Bolofo

Your edit of London's most talked-about topics, from parliamentary blunders to New York Fashion Week

Burning Man is officially over. Aerial footage of the desert festival shows the beguiling beauty of Black Rock City 

The people, places and parties you need to know about this week (thank us later)

What to look forward to at London Design Festival this September, which brings the crème of creative innovation to the capital