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Awk-ward: The Archbishop of Canterbury criticises the makers of Iraq war policy at a St Paul’s memorial service, with Blair and Brown in attendance. The Supreme Court denies hacker Gary McKinnon’s appeal against extradition to the US. Boris wants more green spaces for Londoners. Inspired …

A decade-old Woodford Green “honour killing” finally sees its day in court. Boris overrules Tower Hamlets for new skyscraper; developer contributes £4m to Crossrail, £1m towards affordable housing in the area. Bus shelter art to amuse (but not divert) commuters along Route 37 in Wandsworth. …

HSBC boss says the City should apologise to “real world”. They could start by buying us all a beer. Baby P chief Sharon Shoesmith suicidal, financially ruined, and unemployable, Court hears. Police release CCTV images, seeking witnesses with information on the homophobic assault of a …

Rounding out our bookish Tuesday, we bring you a little sneak preview of a poetic Thursday. National Poetry Day is nearly here – Christmas come early for all those good little sonneteers, spoken wordsters, and free-versing anarchists. This year’s theme is Heroes and Heroines because, …

It’s not often that a literature event inspires in us such a sense of urgency that we feel duty-bound to log on and make something of a public service announcement, like: Run, dear readers, run like the wind – get your tickets now! We’re a …

Tickets are still available for the Wimbledon Book Fest, which returns this weekend with a raft of choice events, whatever your literary leanings. Bit snobbish discerning and only willing to pick up a book if it’s been given the shortlisted stamp of approval? Go see …

The end of the silly season getting you down? Autumn may be upon us, but summer festival-goers need not yet go softly into the night. Come this Sunday, you can rock out once more, boutique-style, at the highly exclusive (read: tiny, not pretentious) World’s Smallest …

Since coming across our radar a few years back, London poet, editor and live literature promoter Tom Chivers has frequently given us good cause to perk up and pay attention – whether by co-founding the award-winning London Word Festival, bringing us a cracking (and frequently …

‘I take my hat off to them’ by bradman334 via the Londonist Flickr pool Londonist’s look at the week ahead in literary London… Wednesday: Why, the pairing of St Pancras’s Betjeman Arms and Lance Pierson’s one-man show, The Best of John Betjeman, seems very much …

Blakean vision courtesy of Jessicamulley Londonist’s look at the week ahead in literary London… Wednesday: William Blake: poet, painter, psychogeographer, namer of nightclubs, visionary anarchist? Exploring Blake’s claim to the last is poet, philosopher and visionary Peter Marshall. The event is hosted at Housmans (7pm, …