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Here at Londonist we’ve never considered driving a bus around London to be an easy job. Navigating the capital on four wheels is bad enough without having to steer a large red dinosaur down streets designed to hold plague carts. Then there are the passengers …

We’ve all run into American tourists who try and cram as much culture and sightseeing into the shortest possible time frame. Big Ben in the morning, the Eiffel Tower in the afternoon and The Leaning Tower of Pisa before bed. These days of course seventeen …

Vinnie Jones has finally met his match. After years of tear inducing tackling as a footballer, shotgun wielding as a movie hardman and bottle juggling in some sweaty advert he finally gets to bang heads with a hobbit. Well Sean Astin anyway. The unlikely pair …

Londonist loves taking photos on the Underground but somehow they always come out a little drab. We have often wondered what the solution would be but the best answer we ever arrived at to spruce the place up a bit was to invest more money …

Right Guv, that’ll be £16 and a Powerbook please It seems that Londoners have come out on top yet again. This time we are the best in the world at forgetting to take our expensive gadgets with us when we are getting out of taxis. …

Every now and again we all have a mad idea or two while drinking down the pub. Paid advertising on shaved dogs for example. But most of those alcohol inspired dreams fade by the time the hangover kicks in. Not so for Andy Johnston, Barry …

SE1 has always been a place of cultural interest ever since those early tourists the Vikings rowed their longboats up the Thames and pulled London Bridge into the river with grappling hooks. Now a thousand years later another long haired blonde has set his sights …

Germaine Greer is long gone from the Celebrity Big Brother house but the debate still goes on as to what the hell she was doing in there in the first place. It remains to be seen as to whether her new found fame as foil …

There are a lot of reasons to like Harold Pinter. He’s no fan of the Bush administration and thinks Tony Blair a “deluded idiot” for taking the UK forces into Iraq but the main one is that he isn’t Andrew Motion. Londonist would, however, like …

Today sees a new portrait of Dame Judy Dench unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. The artist Alessandro Raho usually drapes his subjects in theatrical clothes but with Dame Judy he has opted for a simple white jacket against a stark white background. Inspiration came, …