Populist: November 1 - 7

Clockwise from top left: Duck house at Parliament, fireworks at BT Tower, walrus penis bone, shenanigans on Upper Street

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

In the news

• As the BT Tower was lit up to mark 1,000 days until the Olympics, it was announced that the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower would reopen
• The Tokyo-style (or maybe just borrowed from Balham) diagonal crossing at Oxford Street opened
• Thousands of manhours were lost as people tried to crack the puzzling periodic table of London
• TfL announced that the Circle line extension to Hammersmith will open on December 13th
• Boris Johnson literally took the law into his own hands when he rescued a woman from a gang of muggers
• Two Beefeaters were suspended for harassing Moira Cameron, the first female Yeoman of the Guard
• Parliament is to host its first gay wedding
• Salmon-flipping: not a euphemism for an unorthodox sexual practice, but a common type of fare-dodging

Around Town:

• Julie Goodyear (aka Bet Lynch) puts in a "carpentry performance" in Calendar Girls
• We can't believe it's not Starbucks
• Pangolins, a dugong, a thylacine, a qugga, and a walrus penis bone: must be The Grant Museum
• Dipping into the world of underground dining with the Fernandez and Leluu Supper Club
• A hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold arrived at the British Museum
• The new statue on the Fourth Plinth was unveiled
• We interviewed Annie Mac, queen of Radio 1's late night Friday show