Alternative Christmas tipple: hospital patients booze on alcoholic hand rub Seasonal crackdown on unlicensed minicabs Unseasonal cuts on funding for tackling homelessness Desperately seeking new jobs: Blondie musical cast unemployed for Christmas Tate tree decked out with festive fighter planes Image courtesy of Simone ver.? …
Hackney Council are at it again. Taking half arsed decisions on Banksys. Last time they completely removed a stencil of a girl in a frilly dress and gas mask from Gillett Square. This time they’ve tried to wipe out the crude phallus being painted by …
Like us, you’re probably just starting to think about Christmas shopping. If you’d been out shopping yesterday, and had a spare £9 million or so, you could have picked up a very lovely Faberge egg. That’s right. Nine million pounds. Like us, that’s probably more …
We feel churlish bringing it up again, but not so long ago Heathrow was voted the world’s least favourite airport. As we head into the crunch Christmas travel period, it could surely use a slice of decent press. So is there any good news to …
If you’re a fan of musicals then you probably think the bigger the better. In which case you must pop down to the BFI Imax, where their After-Dark All-Nighter event will be screening four modern musicals on the trot on Saturday 8th December. First off …
Ann Widdecombe MP was arrested outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday and taken to the Clink Prison where bail was set at £35,000. The fact that she was already wearing prison uniform when she got nicked hinted at the possibility that this was a charitable …
…that the government’s gone a bit loopy, actually. They are still banging on about developing the optimistically titled Thames Gateway region into some eco-wonderland filled with gainfully employed and happy eco-bunnies. Yvette Cooper was due to, er, ‘clarify’ exactly how this can be achieved and …
Recently we’ve been doing some research on Scotland, and while we haven’t come to any firm conclusions on the West Lothian question, it has prompted us to wonder – would London be better off as an independent country? We’d keep more of our tax money …
You’ll forgive dear old Londonist for being a touch misty-eyed, but in our day a dog was a child’s best friend, a source of companionship and a trusted pal through thick and thin. Times have changed though, and according to the RSPCA there’s an increasing …
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