We’ve had champagne bars, reports of amazing bacon sandwiches and an all round thumbs up from the regneration project at Kings Cross so far, and now there’s news on a musical twist. While the area lost The Cross, Canvas and The Key at the turn …
You’ve probably noticed that stuff keeps going up in price. Our friend the shop-keeper got a letter from the milkman today – there’ll be at least an extra 4p on the price of a pint of milk from next week, mark our words. When the …
Whilst “free at the point of use” is a fundamental value of the NHS one West London hospital is bucking up its ideas about treating foreign patients who are not entitled to free healthcare on the NHS by employing a “stablize and discharge” policy. At …
Okay, confession time: Londonist hasn’t always been particularly supportive toward London’s police community support officers. In fact, judging by our generally disdainful tone, you might imagine that we think they’re nothing more than well-meaning but ineffectual quota-fillers with nary a backbone nor a shred of …
The Times thought so back in February and now today the BBC piles in with how Mrs Uminska got fed up with London life and declares the the tide of Polish immigration to the UK, specifically to London, is now turning. Mrs Uminska came to …
Londoners are all hot and bothered over the exact voting procedure they will be faced with in the mayoral election, according to the Evening Standard. The use of the second preference system appears to be causing some puzzlement, with 30% of those surveyed by the …
Another day, another thunderclap of hand-wringing and dire Nostradamus warnings about the 2012 Games. Organisers have been accused of “spending money like water” as costs for the event rise like floodwaters threatening the ageing Thames Barrier. This is the charge made by the Culture, Media …
Very Good Taste equates chocolate with porn. Daily Candy mixes it up with a review of an online muesli mixery. Cheese and Biscuits attempts to cook the perfect beef steak. The London Review of Breakfasts explains what the T5 fiasco teaches us about breakfast. Image …
London was invaded today by a riot of colour and a-honkin’ of horns. A convoy of 65 trucks vroomed on Park Lane to express their anger at soaring diesel prices: they were bearing a coffin representing the demise of the haulage industry to present to …
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