"Sarcasm, like life in general, is more effective when spelt correctly." Hmmm. The only spelling mistake I can spot here is 'patronize', which I think is merely the US English spelling. And I think t...

Believe it or not, I didn't realise that bearskin hats were made of bear skin. Yes. I am naive. ...

Given his objections to amateur websites, it sounds to me as if 'pump' would be happier spending his time on a website that's run by people who are paid to do so. Might I suggest that this is more up...

I also had occasion to cut down Passing Alley (or, as goldenlad notes, "Pissing Alley") just a few days ago. Its current name does seem to be a misnomer, as there are some spots where the narrowness o...

Yes, but remember that this is the same network that encompasses Mudchute station, which is currently being more-or-less completely rebuilt for the second time in just 8 years. Despite all their strat...

Excellent stuff! How about 'The Clerk's Well' a.k.a. Clerkenwell? See here. There's also the mystery of the Isle of Dogs. Was it so-named due to various kings keeping their hunting dogs there? Or it...

'Can you explain how "heavy discounting and aggressive mid-season sales" can yield "healthy profit margins"?' Well I'm no economist, but I would say that anything that stimulates retail spending woul...

Wayhey! You've photographed my flat! (Plus several thousand neighbouring properties.) Fantastic pictures. I am so jealous. ...

I think that it's a fallacy to consider the proposed-now-scrapped £25 CC hike to fall within the area of "green taxes". The proposal had little real prospects of reducing pollution in any meaningful w...

Good work with those diagrams, Mr Thant. Your theory on the increased crowding at Bank contributing the the increased backlog in that area does sound plausible. However, I've often wondered what it i...

It is indeed a much less frustrating experience if your local station is not one of those between Mudchute and Lewisham. At the moment, anyway. In terms of the backlog of trains into Bank, this seems...

That's pretty interesting - I did not know that. Thanks. However, I stand by my original comment that if a DLR train is to be unstaffed, it should be deliberate - not accidental! ...

My only experience of this place is that it's just too damned busy on a Friday lunchtime - we couldn't get in the door! But, then again, where isn't? It's hard being popular... Anyway, it's definitel...

Sorry, but as much as I love cookery programmes and the pseudo-celeb chefs that pioneer them, I cannot find any love for Nigella on that front. Sure, she's relatively easy-on-the-eye. But I find her ...

Excellent punmanship. ...

I think that London travellers are reaping the vast majority of the benefits, to be honest, regardless of any PR machines or slanted reporting. ...

Geez, what a bunch of whingers some of these commenters are. This Oyster rollout is excellent news for a huge proportion of London travellers, and long overdue, regardless of whose idea it was. Why ...

Ha – I knew that mention of the Greenwich Union would elicit a comment by Siany! Otherwise... so many Clerkenwell/Smithfield/Farringdon-based pubs! ...

I reckon that no-one (apart from the outer-suburb-dwellers) actively decided to vote for Boris. But I know for a fact that loads of people deliberately voted against Ken. It's a telling testament to ...

Seriously guys, have you actually read the article past the title? It looks fairly balanced to me – if fact the only 'criticism' that I can discern seems to be about Ken ignoring the YouGov poll. Cou...