There are so many things wrong with this story, Londonist doesn’t quite know where to start. Rachel Bailey is a 28-year-old woman from Chelsea. Just to give you an idea of what she looks like, today’s Sun describes her as “busty”, “brunette”, and “5ft 9in …
As with the weekly TV review, we’re trying to come up with a good title for our regular gig alerts. Londonist loves a good pun. Actually, we like an awful pun, too, so any ideas are welcome. Please do your worst in the comments section. …
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. …
Bush. Kerry. Chads. Ohio. Yes, we admit it, Londonist is as excited as everyone else is about tonight’s US elections. We’ll be watching it on the good, old BBC (11:50 through to 5:00 with Dimbleby, Snow and Simpson et al) but there are events taking …
Question: What connects the ageing, scouse doyen of light entertainment, Cilla Black, with the people behind Bols Blue, arguably one of the most evil spirits ever concocted? Answer: The Great Eastern Hotel. From this week, the Bols marketing team has enlisted the help of London …
Modernisers have struck another blow within the cobwebbed corridors of Westminster: as of today the general public in the vicinity of Parliament will no longer be referred to as ‘strangers’. In the 1980s the rule which allowed MPs to clear the public gallery by shouting …
‘Calamity’ Pete Doherty has been at it again, this time destroying a very expensive piece of artwork at an exclusive member’s bar. Pete, who has packed more rock and roll mishaps into the past year than Motley Crue managed in their whole career, was at …
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