LONDON NEWS

TUPNews was enjoying a few lunchtime pints with colleagues on a sunny Friday afternoon recently, outside the Tom Cribb pub in central London. Even though it was the Cup Final the next day, the weather forecast suggested rain tomorrow, so we were eager to make the most of it. Anyway our truancy was rewarded by the incredible sight of the monkey god, pictured above, making his way down Haymarket.

The monkey god was on a massive bicycle with moving feet, and had smoke pouring out of his mouth. TUPNews doesn't want to tell anyone how to run their lives, but if I was in charge of the Hare Krishnas, I would make the monkey god more central to the whole "become a krishna" pitch. By focusing their efforts on faffing around with a loudspeaker outside HMV, they are missing a trick.