Archive for June, 2005

Londonist would like to say ‘Happy Fourth Birthday’ to Brain Haw, Parliament Square’s resident protestor. Brian has been protesting against UK and US government policy towards Iraq since 2 June 2001, and this makes his the longst running one-man protest in modern history. In the …

Ken Livingstone is a bit obsessed with the media, it’s true. In fact you could go as far as saying that he hates journalists and anyone related to the media world. Which may be why he’s now launched the London Local Press Awards to “recognise …

And so is came to pass that the Lord looked upon the world and saw that there was still much pain and suffering as a result of smug greedy Western governments shafting their poorer cousins in a most unrighteous manner. And he saw that despite …

What is it about the press and this need they have for US celebrities to fall in love with London? We know Heat and the like exist on these things, but ever since Madonna relocated here it seems the denizens of ‘tabloid world’ have made …

Is it just Londonist, or does the proposal to extend mobile phone coverage into Tube stations have some of the makings of a disappointing development? It would obviously be useful to be able to inform colleagues and loved ones of delays, previously the Underground has …

Parliament’s website was given a bit of a kicking today by the Hansard Society. The society, which exists to promote effective parliamentary democracy, declared that a parliamentary internet should be for the public, not the people who work there. The BBC quote the report: It …

So it was the week that the Crazy Frog beat Coldplay to the number one slot, and suddenly everyone cares about the singles chart again! Still at least Coldplay’s X&Y was leaked on to file sharing networks (not free music sites as you might like …

We like thinking of alternative worlds here at Londonist – it kills time while we wait for the Zappa on Zappa tickets to go on sale. We’ve done the ‘if Hitler won the war’ (great transport system – lousy foreign policy) and ‘if Tony Blair …

Something we missed at the end of last week (because we were too busy dreaming of the Bank Holiday weekend) was the ‘Strange case of the Bexley beast’. Apparently there have been a few ‘big cat’ sightings around the Bexley area over the past few …

When the Tube gets it right there’s never as much noise made as when they get is spectacularly wrong, so we feel it’s our duty to pick up this little news story about Londonist’s favourite underground route: the Docklands Light Railway. Apparently, multinational Amec (you …