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A public-spirited chap called Carl Court has provided the BBC with a dossier of photos that reveal the shocking state of many railway stations in London and the South-east. London stations that get named and shamed include London Bridge, Battersea Park and Charlton. It’s depressing …

Hats off to London MPs Kate Hoey (Vauxhall), Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green) and Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North), who were among the Labour rebels whose votes aided the defeat of the Religious Hatred bill. This New Labour fatwa was note-perfect Brazil, combining as it …

Every now and then the most banal Google search can throw up the bizarre, the disturbing and the sublime. This humble Londonista was trying to find out about housing in the Thames Estuary floodplain. How delicious, then, to stumble across a description of the destruction …

Where would we be without Google? Still using Altavista, probably. Anyway, the Little Search Engine That Could has thrown up a fascinating, but utterly pointless, exercise in urbanism. Some places become so associated with a certain class of person or lifestyle that they become intrinsically …

It’s only January and already there’s a strong contender for 2006′s “Most Risible Attempt By Local Newspaper To Get Involved In A National Story” award. The lucky recipient of the golden envelope is the super soaraway Hackney Gazette, which today broke some earth-shattering news to …

Glory be! The Queen Mum – bless her, she was such a comfort to the East End during the Crimean War – is to get a memorial on the Mall. A competition has been launched to find a designer for it. Londonist expects that the …

Opinions at Londonist are divided about “street artist” Banksy. Many contributors here have a very high opinion of the man and his work. This Londonista does not. However, considering the views of my colleagues and the fact that the publisher of this website is behind …

I hate Sundays. At times enough to drive me to do something extreme, like taking up golf or Catholicism. Sunday is like Saturday’s irritating younger brother. There’s no reason Sunday shouldn’t be as much fun as Saturday, but it’s a pale imitation. Also, you already …

The Waterloo & City line is to be closed for as long as five months from next April so that “urgent repair” work can be undertaken. “Travel hell” hardly begins to cover it; the odd little W&C line, known to its “fans” as “The Drain” …

Just what is going on today? First there’s tales of cursed gemstones taking up residence in the Natural History Museum, then we here that a sword factory in west London is closing down and then we discovered the rather alarming fact that we’re being overrun …