About londonist_alex2

We love to be dazzled by youth. Be it Zadie Smith’s precocious debut novel, the Arctic Monkeys storming straight to No.1 or Lewis Hamilton tearing up the track in his first F1 season, we are consistently enraptured and delighted by the ability of the young …

Imagine, if you will, the ‘real-life’ equivalent of the footballer’s ‘come and get me’ plea to the media….. You’re doing very well in your current job, but you can’t help but think that you’d be doing even better working for this other organisation, in a …

The blanket of damp that’s been thrown over London this week can’t stop the senses from believing that another long hot summer is just around the corner. Surely April was just a taster for the main event: sweltering offices, ice creams in parks, long cold …

Today is Australia Day. Tonight there will be a huge amount of drunken Australians celebrating in this city. Here are three stereotypes about Australians living in London: 1. They see their homeland as some kind of utopia. If home is so perfect, then why are …

A man emailed us to tell us about his website . It’s a website that helps people swap football stickers. It didn’t strike us as having an instant correlation with London, but then we thought that there are people in London who buy sticker albums …

Ding Dong! The Ashes are back. Excited? Well, you should be. Because the test match series between Australia and England that starts tomorrow, promises to deliver more of the same gut-wrenching levels of joy and despair that illuminated the summer of 2005. This time round, …

A StreetWars competition is currently taking place in our city. We’ve sent one of our own, Alex, to take part . Here’s how he’s getting on…. The man in the white t-shirt pictured to the left is an assassin. He might be the assassin who’s …

We’ve been on at Will Luke, cricketing aficionado and all-round good egg, to write something for us for ages, ever since we spoke to him ahead of the last test of THAT Ashes series. Finally, he’s relented, and given us a little snippet on where …

This summer, when Chelsea go out and lavish £31 million on Sheva, English football does not bat an eyelid. Galacticos come to play in the Premiership these days. 11 summers ago, it was very much a shock when Dennis Bergkamp arrived in London, because in …

On our way to the Londonist Dungeon this morning, we were unlucky enough to be travelling in the Central Line as it went absolutely tits up. Our friendly and throughly engaged driver told us that the problem was a signal failure at Bethnal Green. Having …