Populist: October 11 – 17

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Clockwise from top left: How It Is, muTATE Britain, a ghost train at the Kingsway tram tunnel, and London’s newest suburb

The week’s most popular posts, and a round-up of what’s happening around London

In the news:

  • The Mayor announced inflation-busting fare rises, to no great surprise

  • The Evening Standard went free, though not without teething distribution troubles

  • We chronicled the wit and wisdom of Evening Standard commenter ‘Sarah, London’

  • A new, and possibly obscene, Olympic-inspired coin was unveiled

  • A Tube worker was suspended after a video showed him verbally abusing a passenger

  • Dangerous levels of methanol were found in bootleg bottles of vodka round east London way

  • David Hasselhoff brought his hard-drinking ruckus to a swanky London hotel

  • We took a test-cycle on London’s new hire bikes

    • Around town:

    • Frieze Art Fair opened for another year

  • Lots of sugar-fuelled excitement was had at chocolate week

  • A strutting, spit-kicking Mother Courage stomped around stage at the National

  • Take an urban tour beneath London’s many bridges

  • Damien Hirst’s new show opened at the Wallace Collection

  • Editors released their new album via a Google Street View London mashup

  • The Tate’s new Turbine Hall show, How It Is, opened; some blighter’s already injured himself

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