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Perambulist #3: Buckingham Palace

London with a sprog In tow – the pleasures and pitfalls of a culture fix with the kids Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been? I’ve been to London to visit the Queen Pussy cat Pussy cat, where on earth did you find the …

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London’s Next Generation Needs You!

Baby on board. If you can’t afford to eat out in swanky restaurants, you might as well stay in, watch a video, and procreate. And as birthrates continue to soar, that’s exactly what Londoners appear to be doing. With the rise of births comes the …

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Thrice Spice Baby

Lasers, screens, explosions, giant mutant zombie mummies (hmm, we may have inadvertently made a cruel pun there), apparently the latest gig gizmo is to parade your offspring, as opposed to The Offspring, which in this case might actually have been better. Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz …

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Clubwatch: Our Disco

A night of clubbing is as much about the music you want to hear as it is the experience you hope to get out of it. Whilst there are endless opportunities to don your best threads and brave the night buses to see and be …

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Don’t Have Babies In Bexley

A 20-year old woman identified only as Michelle has made public the sad cases of separation from her children enforced by social services in Bexley, south-east London. Michelle had her first child aged 13, her second at 16 and a third before she turned 20. …

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Identity Theft: Now Available For Dogs!

. We’re all aware that identity theft is a real problem. We’ve all been told to shred our personal documents before throwing them out and to keep our PIN details private so that unscrupulous people don’t steal our identities and run us into debt by …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we’ve all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything …

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The Spy Who Raised Me

Working mothers have begun using webcams to keep an eye on their sproglets playing the day away in childcare while they slave the day away at the office. Whatever happened to eyes in the backs of mothers’ heads? Today’s technology has obviously weeded out that …

News From Around The Ist-A-Verse

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite …

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Primate Roundup

It’s a good day for fans of caged simians. First, the dastard who stole SpongeBob the monkey from Chessington has been sentenced. Monkey rustler Marlon Brown will serve a year behind bars himself after what the judge described as “an act of devilry“. In the …

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Optronica: Addictive TV, Peter Greenaway

The Optronica festival took place last week, and Londonist was lucky enough to get tickets for the sold-out session on Friday evening at the BFI IMAX, where we were treated to video mash-ups by festival programmers Addictive TV, and a reactive retelling of Peter Greenaway’s …