As if we needed anything other than the indecisive weather to spoil our springtime picnics, the oak processionary moths are back for a third year, damaging oak trees and spreading around their toxic hairs. If you didn’t get the memo last year, these little critters, …
There’s never enough time in London: never enough time to have a proper lunch during the day, never enough time to play with the kids, never enough time to stop and stare… Or is there? To buck the trend and show you that it is …
We wouldn’t normally advocate Facebook groups, but this is one you HAVE to sign up to. You just have to. How amazing would this be? So now Life in Cold Blood is over, and the great man has hung up his broadcasting boots for good, …
Wrap your head around this one, folks. A sergeant from Cray Valley West Safer Neighbourhood Team in Bromley has stumbled upon a novel way to combat teen boozing – branded packaging. Eight off-licenses in the area have been issued with distinctive (not to mention biodegradable) …
We want to know. In fact, we want to know all sorts of things about you. If you’ve already done the Londonist Reader Survey then thank you very much. We like your shoes. If you haven’t please do – we’re nothing without you! The reader …
You’re a geek, you. Yup. There’s no denying it. As are we. And the whole population of London is too. We’re a big stinking sweaty cauldron of geekiness, us Londoners, with our love of wi-fi and all. It’s something we’re rightly proud of, and now …
Just as concern about our disaffected youth seems to be getting absurdly out of control and becoming a despairingly permanent fixture on our news radar, along comes a media friendly academic to reassure us that it has ever been thus. Yes, yootful human nature has …
Tower Bridge will be treated to a £4 million facelift over the next four years. Beginning in the summer, the Victorian landmark will be stripped of paint and redaubed with blue and white. At the same time, ugly sister Southwark Bridge will receive a fresh …
Something surprising is happening in our fair river: Conservationists have found seahorses among the muck in the Thames. More exciting, the seahorses are a rare short-snouted breed — Hippocampus hippocampus, for you bio fiends out there — that usually live around the Canary Islands and …
The Intelligent Transport Society (now there’s a silly title for an organisation if ever we heard one) has anointed TfL ‘clever clogs of the year’ for its iBus system. East London could become a new Amsterdam. Um, that’s in terms of usable waterways, of course. …
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