Londonist: So they had a virgin birth at London Zoo. Cronenburger: “Earlier in the year” it says. Did they make a big deal about it back then? Londonist: Don’t think so. But it’s all Christmassy now that Flora is due to give birth in December. …
And now over to our weather correspondent, Mr Charles Dickens: Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and …
The radioactive saga continues with news bouncing all over the Internet this evening, but none of it seeming to get us any closer to who done it. One person not spilling his guts (this side of Christmas at least) is Litvinenko himself according to the …
The FBI have released ten pages of their ‘Now That’s What I Call Lennon’ series: The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files. The 10 pages …
BBC: British Airways has cancelled all mainline domestic flights to and from Heathrow airport for the rest of the day because of severe fog. Flights between Heathrow and mainland Europe are also being severely disrupted by the weather. Gatwick airport has also been affected and …
Geraldine McCaughrean’s sequel to Peter Pan looks set to hit the big screen. Has anyone managed to pull off a decent Peter Pan on film yet? Not to worry – sequels never ever suck. With that in mind here are five pitches that we’d like …
Shadow Homeland Security Minister Patrick Mercer reckons the government have done not a lot to make the tube less vulnerable to attack: “The Government is hugely complacent about Tube safety and security. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, when he was detained by the Americans four years ago, …
chutney bannister‘s It’s good to talk. But not tonight illustrates just how helpful us Londoners can be to one another…
Blair is having a time of it. Following on from a little unwanted attention by the police it turns out the one person in the world that he wants to be noticed by doesn’t really care: Tony Blair has failed to influence the policies of …
As usual there’s so much cool stuff on at the ICA next month that we can’t list it all, but there were a couple of things that got us very excited: Year of the Sex Olympics: Nigel Quatermass Kneale‘s prediction of the future is one …
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