• Right old hou-ha on T5 Day1. Technical hitches and delays made a less than favourable impression, although the threatened flash mobbing was replaced by a peaceful environmental protest.
• The new owners of Covent Garden would appear to be philistines. OK, maybe that’s a bit strong. But they’re not very fluffy bunnies anyway. How can cutting down on the buskers there be in anyway good?
• Meet the donkey diva, the four-legged (co-)star of Carmen.
• Clever lot, UCL – now they’ve produced a new London map to assist with ethnic profiling.
• City bonuses are down 13% on last year. It’s a hard life.

Picture in honour of QT’s birthday courtesy of i-capture's flickr stream.