Happy Australia Day London!
Party Aussie style at the Shepherds Bush Walkabout all day.
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Why Don’t Creationists Just Shut Up?
That’s one of the relaxing conversation pieces to be found at a ‘Skeptics in the pub’ meetup. Tonight’s guest speaker is Dr Matthew Smith from Liverpool Hope University, who will talk about fate, the meaning of life and mid-life crises. We caught up with co-organiser …
Staines Stained
Time was when it cost just a tenner and the promise of a better life to tempt British folk into a new life down under. Modern times call for modern measures, however, and an Aussie tourist board has found itself in hot water after besmirching …
Lords Opens Up. A Bit.
We don’t subscribe to cricket being elitist, generally, especially since the advent of the ace Twenty20 Cup but the MCC is definitely the ultimate in elite club exclusivity. Accompanying a member into the Long Room at Lords is an oppressive experience even when you’ve made …
Sporting Weekend – Australian Rules Football
Well, we’re working our way gradually through the football codes in this feature and this week we alight on the favoured antipodean variation. The Swans are newly arrived in the capital having been based for the last 17 years in Brighton and are very much …
Kylie’s T&A coverings get V&A show
Everyone loves Kylie (well apart from this guy). Oh and maybe anyone who paid good money to see The Delinquents. Which we did. God we’re old. Now as far as Londonist is concerned the best thing Ms Minogue did since leaving Neighbours was to be …
Australians In London
Today is Australia Day. Tonight there will be a huge amount of drunken Australians celebrating in this city. Here are three stereotypes about Australians living in London: 1. They see their homeland as some kind of utopia. If home is so perfect, then why are …
Monday Miscellanea
This Day In London’s History 1788: Lord Byron born at 16 Holles Street, just north of Oxford Street. Born George Gordon Byron, but inheriting the family title at the age of 10, Byron was an extravagant, eccentric and hugely prolific writer. However he was just …
Brisbane Not London
Ding Dong! The Ashes are back. Excited? Well, you should be. Because the test match series between Australia and England that starts tomorrow, promises to deliver more of the same gut-wrenching levels of joy and despair that illuminated the summer of 2005. This time round, …
Footy Update: Congo No Go
Now you see it, now you don’t. The surprise announcement a week ago that Leyton Orient’s Matchroom Stadium would host an international for the first time ever proved to be a touch premature as the Congolese Football Federation yesterday announced that their proposed game with …
Honest, Ref, It’s Just A Bruise!
Barnet players will be staring menacingly at any physio who dares set foot on the Accrington Stanley pitch on Saturday as a second point in four days was snatched away from them deep into injury time, this time at Swindon on Tuesday night. Aussie striker …
