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Christies Goes Geek

We like it when London’s more snooty establishment go a bit populist so we were glad to read that Christie’s is aiming itself at the upper echelons of the geek community with its massive auction of “entertainment memorabilia” next month. Of all the catalogue highlights, …

Flying Cars

“Carrying on with our ‘the future is here’ theme for today, may we point you in the direction of this report, which examines the possibility that the skies above London will soon be filled with flying cars (or ‘jetpods’ as they’re called). The report profiles …

Where Will You Watch It?

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 …

Greg Dyke Speaks

The Londonist is yet to purchase Greg Dyke’s “revealing memoir”: Greg Dyke: inside story, but it’s one of those books we may put on our Christmas list. As everyone knows Dyke was booted out of his director general’s chair at the BBC this year after …

British Museum ‘Raided’

Well the Evening Standard are calling it a raid. What actually happened is a man “posing as a visitor” broke into a locked cabinet, picked up some Chinese jewellery and then…walked out. Not exactly the Thomas Crown Affair is it? The Times’ report (which is …

National Television Awards

The film community has the Oscars; the muso’s have the Grammys; and British telly has…the ITV National Television Awards. This year is the tenth anniversary of the awards and ITV are pulling out all the stops for tonight’s ceremony. They’ve got Sir Trevor McDonald to …