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You May Have Already Won

Are you desperate to have a better life? Do you believe that better life can come through the acquisition of more material possessions, better shiny bigger possessions? Do you want to achieve this with minimal work and cash expended? Then you’re probably the type of …

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The Notting Hill Carnival In Hyde Park

It’s not even close to August yet, but the annual Notting Hill Carnival arguments have started already. Pretty much every year there’s some kind of brouhaha about the route of the carnival, the danger posed by unruly elements or the cost to the local taxpayer. …

Cannabis House Closed Down

Not content with driving around in their annoying little cars with urban-inspired street graphics, London’s real estate agents are now finding time in their busy schedule of fleecing renters and pushing the envelope of bad shirt-tie combinations

London Olympic Kick-back

London received a slap on the wrists yesterday by International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge for a possible ethics violation of the bid process by offering “£25m of inducements to athletes, national Olympic committees and international sporting federations“. Not so says London as all of …

Jose At Night

Outspoken and controversial football manager Jose Mourinho is apparently set to get his own talk show on Portuguese television. The current Chelsea Manager is no stranger to the spotlight, and has given some of the most memorable post match interviews since excitable Gordon Strachan moved …

Tate To Tate

This Easter Londonist chose not to jet off to destinations unknown but have a holiday in London, an attempt to appreciate the city as the many hordes of tourists do, or at least that was the justification for our lack of forethought and planning to …

The Socceroos vs The All Whites

So it looks like Australia’s national football team, the Socceroos are edging closer to ditching the Oceania Football Confederation in favour of the Asian Football Confederation. You’re probably wondering a couple of things: 1.What do they possibly stand to gain by such a move? and …

Science At Work

Sometimes scientists don’t really do themselves any favours when it comes to combating their negative stereotyping as grant-obsessed-reality-dodging-ivory-tower-stoner-eggheads. A crack research team at Queen Mary University of London has conclusively proved that a Credit or Bank card is the optimum tool for playing scratch cards. …

Diva in Diva-like Behaviour

Shrill deranged songstress Mariah Carey arrived in London this weekend but promptly ran into problems as she was unable to enter the Kensington branch of plush Italian hotel chain Baglionis as they had not met her specific entry criteria, namely a red carpet lined with …

West End Widening

London’s theatre land area is to get a makeover courtesy of a £6 million pound cash injection, the first 1.8 million of which “has been raised from Transport for London, Westminster council, the Cross-River Partnership and theatres themselves“. The scheme has plans to widen the …