The only people who enjoy school are sociopaths. Then again, people who didn’t enjoy school are quite likely to be sociopaths, too (Zero Hour: Massacre At Columbine High School, Mon 11pm Five). Even teachers hate school – well, wouldn’t you? In such an environment of …
If you leave for work early enough and stay until after 5 there’s a good chance you’re not seeing much of the sun at the moment so we’d like to take your mind off all that by suggesting you watch a film set almost entirely …
Everyone knows about Chinese New Year – when the novelty of Christmas and the western New Year wears off, along comes the feasting and lion dances and lucky red envelopes as well as a surge of interest in Chinese horoscopes. But there is far more …
Remember Freedom Bags? We had a post on them not so long ago, where we basically wrote them off as a not very good idea. In case you don’t remember, the basic idea of Freedom Bags was to produce transparent rucksacks which commuters could use …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday on, well, obviously, Londonist. As the Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this week, we Londonists must still concede that the best literary action lies due north of our city. Doris Lessing regrettably cancelled her appearance scheduled for tomorrow …
Lucian Freud’s newest work The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer is unveiled today at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square. The question on everyone’s minds is “Who is the girl?” The self-portrait depicts Freud in his studio with a young nude woman clutched …
Earlier this year Londonist contacted the parenting pressure group Fathers 4 Justice to see if we could get an interview with them. We wanted to talk to them because it seems that many of their ‘stunts’ take place in the capital and Londoners tend to …
Those of you who hoped that the resignation of David Blunkett, the most right-wing Home Secretary this country has had for decades, would have seen a shift to more liberal tolerance and understanding will be disappointed to hear of Home Office plans to remove some …
(Well, we had to use that headline eventually) It seems Londonist just can’t avoid sex today. The BBC has been telling us what a hotbed of raunchy activity Hyde Park was in the Sixties (“In 1962, 61 cases of prostitution, 181 of indecent behaviour and …
If, like Londonist, you were out of our beloved capital last week, wondering what on earth the white stuff falling from the sky was (before anyone says it: no, we weren’t in the jungle with Sophie Anderton) you might like to reacquaint yourself with more …
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