Archive for January, 2007

MykReeve is a fave photographer of ours from the Londonist pool and it’s all down to shots like this. The Preacher Man also shows the lengths that some bloggers will go to even without an Internet connection.

Wannabe French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, rallies French expats in Old Billingsgate What must it have been like to be blind during the Blitz? Nonagenerian Baroness takes a tumble down a Westminster esculator. The Queen and Tony Blair to be granted a special audience with Shilpa? …

As the guidebooks are fond of reminding us, it’s the ‘tallest freestanding stone column in the world’. But the Monument is much lower down the list of tourist attractions than, say, Nelson’s Column. Frankly, it’s the sort of C-list memorial that might appear on Celebrity …

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 23. Exchange Court Where? A sibling to Bull Inn Court, running down ancient sloped from Maiden Lane to Strand. What? To avoid the cliché of calling this lane ‘Dickensian’, we’d like to proclaim it a passage …

Funnily enough we rewatched the 1936 adaptation of HG Wells’ The Shape of Things To Come over the weekend and were looking fior a way to mention it on Londonist because of the striking similarities between Everytown and here. Then we got an email informing …

If you missed the Five screening of this documentary last year you can now watch the full thing via Google video: Here’s the accompanying website. Don’t have nightmares.

Well a bit of it anyway. Londonist can be a tad hard on motorists so here’s a little enginehead news for those who like things that go vroom and indeed whoosh: The City of London is to be closed down next month to allow Shell …

Blakey and the rest of the RMT aren’t going to like the sound of this: Like something plucked right out of a 1960’s sci-fi flick, the model of a Driverless bus wowed visitors at the Science Museum in London – where it is currently on …

Nothing much on the old London terrorist radar today so let’s have a quick gander at the rest of the country. Oh look, they’ve arrested nine people in Birmingham: The “significant” operation involved police and the security service MI5. Security sources said a terror plot …

In the trial of six men accused of plotting mass murder aboard London transport in July 2005, the prosecution showed photos of interesting objects in the flat of Yassin Omar, 26. These objects include a printout of Osama Bin Laden’s October 2004 address to the …