A few weeks ago we reported on BT’s humiliating new competition whereby two members of the public are recruited by Capital FM and are despatched to a specially created Perspex box in Covent Garden. Once imprisoned the two contestants then have to “complete a series …
Conversations with cabbies may soon be a thing of the past, the BBC reports, thanks to an innovation by an Australian company. TouchTaxi allows you to surf the information superhighway while stuck in traffic on London’s not-so-super highways. And it sounds like a terrible idea. …
They’ve been advertising it for weeks. Whether it’s billboards or teaser television adverts, if you live in London then it’s difficult not to notice that Karl Lagerfeld has made some clothes for Hennes. It’s the same in Paris where Lagerfeld is best known for his …
At what age do you think Maurice Saatchi sold his soul to the devil? After all this is a man who, not content with being the mastermind behind of one of the country’s largest advertising agencies, decided that he’d take on the joint-chairmanship of the …
Just as people of a certain age can always remember where they were when they heard that Kennedy had been shot (as comedian Steven Wright put it, ‘I remember where I was, I was on the sixth floor of a book depository….’) so Londonist imagines …
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