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Protestors at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp last summer / courtesy of the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition under a Creative Commons licence We know why the G-20 are in London, so why are people protesting? You might think this was a no-brainer: because they’re angry about …

Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Just across the road from Books for Cooks on W11′s Blenheim Crescent is The Travel Bookshop, a place to buy guidebooks, maps, fiction, history, biography about travel and… what’s that now? The elephant over there, in the corner …

At least Gordon’s happy / image by Andy Mettler and World Economic Forum under a Creative Commons Licence In the first of a wee series on this G20 palaver, we thought we’d start with a short briefing on the G20 itself and why the hell …

Cry ‘God for Boris, England and Saint George!’ London’s getting a week of free events to mark the national saint’s day, including a Shakespeare event at the Globe, a folky concert in Trafalgar Square and something to do with food and a Routemaster at Leadenhall …

Image courtesy of den99 under a Creative Commons licence The Evening Standard is all of a flap: Finsbury Circus “is to be bulldozed for Crossrail“, they say, with the flower beds and bowling green due to be torn up to make way for improvements to …

Lesbian Vampire Killers / image courtesy of Momentum Pictures Our weekly round-up of film reviews… It’s fashionable to kick James Corden and Matthew Horne in the wake of their roundly derided sketch show, and Lesbian Vampire Killers isn’t doing them any favours. Empire (2 stars) …

Image courtesy of Simon Crubellier from the Londonist Flickr pool Sheesh, no wonder Tim O’Toole quit… a London Assembly report confirms what we’ve known for a while: there’s a whopping great hole in the funding for tube upgrade work. How big a hole depends on …

It’s all very well being texted the nearest loo, but all too often the nearest loo is not actually that near, and you can only use it if you splash the cash. So you end up wearing your best nonchalant expression as you skip homewares …

In an example of ‘how on earth did that happen?’, it transpires that the British Library have ‘misplaced’ 9,000 books in its collection, including a first edition of Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, some irreplaceable medieval and Renaissance texts and a luxury edition of …

Image by D I C K S D A I L Y from the Londonist Flickr pool Weep, market lovers, for the passing of the Greenwich Village Market. No, not the covered market by the Cutty Sark; the quirky, larger market that had vintage clothes …