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Matt Brown

I'm Editor of Londonist and utterly obsessed with the capital.

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It Was Three Years Ago Today…

Robert Hinchcliffe taught our blog to play We’ve been going in and out of style But we’re guaranteed to raise a smile So may we introduce to you, to celebrate a great three years Londonist’s third birthday party drinks Pah, pah, pah pah pah pah …

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London’s Nooks and Crannies: St Anne’s Tower

Londonist goes to church and gets stuck up a ladder covered in pigeon shit. Before we start, we’d just like to say something to the Russians. Oy! Stop nicking our church designs, and repurposing them into spacecraft. Only we’re allowed to do that. Thank you. …

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Extra, Extra

Doherty not taking drugs shocker. Winehouse beehive inversely proportional to levity of mood. Serious blaze closes Leicester Square. Banksy works reach almost half a million pounds at auction. He can’t compete with Allah, a copy of whose Koran fetched $2.3 million at auction. Image courtesy …

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Honey, I Expanded The Kids, Turned Them Into Bronze, Got Them To Embrace Incestuously And Plonked Them In St Pancras International

That’s the creative process used by artist Paul Day to produce his landmark sculpture for the station. Or so we choose to believe. Sadly, the facts tell us that it’s really made from conventional modelling techniques, and shows the sculptor in a clinch with his …

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Where’s My Shiny New Skyscraper?

View Larger Map So what happened to all those lovely new towers we were promised? The Shard, the helter-skelter, the cheesegrater and their friends have been around as designs for years. But where have they got to? If you’ve checked the City skyline lately, you’ll …

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Dr Who Series 3 Inspired by Graveyard?

Pause for thought for the day. Has Russell T Davis been hanging out in Cookham church yard, scene of Stanley Spencer’s resurrection painting? Gravestones commemorating the family of Blood and Dalek Sec not pictured.

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Extra, Extra

London Ambulance Service is the best. And it has the best blogger, too. Just as well, because gun crime has risen 10%. Free wifi on London to Milton Keynes bus route. At last, a reason to go to the new town. Securitas robbers sported ‘false …

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Londonist: Two Years And 51 Weeks Old Today!

So please raise a toast to our good health. For a more orthodox numerology, hold your horses (and champagne flutes) for just one more week. Then, we are three. To help us celebrate our birthday in something loosely approaching style, head over to the Grafton …

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Extra, Extra: “Four” Edition

Four-cast: London has 20% of the UK’s economy. Why don’t we have any of it? Four-bidden: A crackdown on scooter raids. Four-ensics: Foot and mouth barriers in Egham to be lifted. Four-wheeled: Hybrid buses to double. Sounds like some weird biotech story. Image of Channel …

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Touch Up London #67: Dragons!

Last week, we asked you to imagine London in the clutches of a saurian rampage. Daniel Sykes sent in this little gem. It’s Reign of Fire meets Pete’s Dragon – very much a film we don’t want to see. Daniel wins a signed copy of …