There’s so much news information on last Thursday’s attacks flying around at the moment that we thought it might be a good idea to provide a few links to some of the stories we thought were interesting or might get missed in the media frenzy. …
Although Londoners themselves need little encouragement to get back onto the tube and buses and generally keep London ticking, it seems there is at least one group that needs to take extra precautions before daring to come back to the capital: the US Army. Yep, …
Remember Martha Lane Fox ,the woman behind the internet boom’s hottest property: Lastminute.com, and poster girl for the dot-com bubble? Well if you ever heard Martha on Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs you’ll know that her ‘luxury item’ was a karaoke machine. Well now it …
In light of recent events we thought it was about time we had a completley fluffy, “and finally…” type of news story – so here’s a nice one we spotted earlier today. The world record for the longest kiss has been broken by a London …
Londonist hopes you all had a great weekend. What about that weather eh? Sheesh. Following the example set by the rest of the city we’re very much back to business as usual here on the site. Thanks again for all the email, comments and general …
With the dust settling on a turbulent few days, the words ‘perspective’ and ‘context’ should soon be coming into focus. Of course, the Sunday papers will be full of comment, analysis and historical perspective (hopefully of a more erudite calibre than the rantings highlighted in …
Nothing major seems to have broken in the last few hours, but let’s take a moment to go over what we do know. The body count is fifty, but is expected to rise according to Sir Ian Blair, the Met’s Police commissioner, who also made …
As London gets back into her groove, it has become time to get back to what we do best. For other Londonist writers, that would involve a weekend overdosing on zombie flicks, or maybe a trip to the opera, perhaps a brisk walk around some …
I left my house in West Hampstead a little before 9 O’clock. The southbound Jubilee Line was running a full and efficient service. It was much quieter than usual, I’d guess about a quarter normal capacity. IPODs were all left at home, and few people …
At the time of writing we’re looking at over 50 dead and around 700 injured. There are still bodies to be recovered from the King’s Cross incident. The tunnels are unsafe, but a fingertip search is being conducted through the remaining carriages. As bad as …
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