Paul Dadge, the ex-fireman who helped survivors of the July 7 bombings has criticised the ambulance service for its response to the attacks.. The Review Committee heard from 13 survivors and is expected to reveal its findings at the end of May. Police investigating the …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Tomorrow’s Tower Blocks: the Dana Centre Here’s a strange thought. Many Londoners can recall a time, …
There seems something oddly obscene about ITV’s decision to make a programme about the public’s favourite images of death, destruction, mayhem, murder, pain, suffering, and general shittiness (ITV 50: The Shot That Shook The World, Tue 9.45pm ITV1). So, which is your favourite picture of …
Neil Young – Prairie Wind As prodigious as he is unpredictable (this after all is a man whose record company once sued him for not sounding like himself), Neil Young‘s 41st solo record, just shy of his 60th birthday and recovering from an aneurysm that …
Everyone has fond memories of Hi De Hi. Londonist used to watch, mouth agape, dumbfounded by the idea that anyone would consider enforced jollity and strictly regimented ‘fun’ to be their idea of a good holiday. The best thing about Hi De Hi was how …
Is it yet possible to write something about German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen without mentioning his little 9/11 faux pas? (Oh wait, the Guardian just did…) For those of you who might not remember, just five days after September 11, that wacky Karlheinz declared at a …
This week, if you’re thinking of going to the pictures you’ve got a choice between a crazed asssassin in Washington, gun crime in Hackney…and Matthew McConaughey taking his shirt off in the desert. At least you can’t complain that the choice isn’t ‘varied’. So first …
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