Populist: August 30 – September 5

A round-up of our most popular posts from the past seven days, and what made the news in London this week

  • Detente between De Beauvoir Towners and their squatter neighbours
  • Nude news: naked climate campers come to town while an unrobed man with live chicken and blow-up dolls created havoc on the plinth
  • A Tottenham market scam proved the rule that a fool and his money are easily parted
  • A Banksy ruined by bungling council workers was mourned
  • Meet the bus-obsessed boy — if TfL had any sense they’d sign him to a contract now
  • The Londonist quiz was announced