Did you know that our alert level had dropped? Well it has. As of the end of last week we’re at ‘Severe General’ for the first time since July 7 (we were at ‘Critical’ before). The reason being that “intelligence sources do not have any …
We have that BBC alert gizmo where BREAKING NEWS pops up on the desktop to thundering dramatic music – it only ever seems to bring bad news like just now when we learned that Mo Mowlam died. It never pops up to say Kittens Are …
News of incidents at Warren St, Oval and Shepherd’s Bush, plus the no 26 bus in Hackney. No injuries reported but the tube network is down for the moment. Sky news: At Warren Street there were reports of a nail bomb explosion. Sky’s Crime Correspondent …
Despite yesterday’s round of headshaking regarding the idea that our involvement in Iraq may have provided just a little motivation for guys from Leeds to blow up parts of London, the New York Times is painting quite a different picture. It seems that an assessment …
Iain Sinclair has long been one of our favourite biographers of London (we were thrilled to talk to him a little while ago) so we have been waiting for him to pen something on last Thursday’s events from his own unique perspective. He did so …
Londonist hopes you all had a great weekend. What about that weather eh? Sheesh. Following the example set by the rest of the city we’re very much back to business as usual here on the site. Thanks again for all the email, comments and general …
I left my house in West Hampstead a little before 9 O’clock. The southbound Jubilee Line was running a full and efficient service. It was much quieter than usual, I’d guess about a quarter normal capacity. IPODs were all left at home, and few people …
Wi-fi is a marvellous thing. It allows all our dear readers, who we imagine are sophisticated early-adopter types who swan around with the latest PalmOne, Pocket PC or PowerBook, to read Londonist in whatever part of London is trendy today. But Wi-fi has a dark …
Londonist was somewhat surprised to find out this morning that there are not one but two new Star Wars films on the way. Slashdot drew our attention to Star Wars Revalations, a new fan film with even ropier acting than the originals but some great …
As far as running into problems on a film set go its no Apocalypse Now, but amateur film makers Vincent Tempest and Adam Young managed to at least bring the local constabulary out in force in search of a dumped body. Members of the Finchley …
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