Elaine Gennard-Levy spent 20 minutes searching for a bathroom while shopping on London’s Oxford Street. She decided it would be easier to build her own. Well we can think of simpler ways to relieve ourselves, but they don’t payoff in people giving us a fiver …
The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg (yes, Bloomberg as in that media conglomerate), is in London at the moment to look in greater detail at why so many international firms are moving their M&A activity and their currency trading to our very own City …
We think Sinatra sang it best, New York New York so good they named it twice / New York New York buy your crap there half price. In case you needed a reminder that the dollar is getting the living shit beat out of it …
Ken’s in Cuba! The Mayor made an unexpected visit there to talk about environmental changes (environmental changes like ‘oooh it’s getting cold isn’t it, anyone fancy a trip to Cuba?). One of the men detained at Guantanamo (a 38-year-old Jordanian with British residency) has been …
Preparations for 2012 are ‘substantially’ ahead of schedule reckons Tessa Jowell. London is the ‘perfect place’ to start the Tour de France says Ken. really? Because we would have thought France would have been top of that list. Bob Marley’s heritage plaque was unveiled today, …
For four nights only, starting from tonight, the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn is presenting a series of short plays exploring the current situation in Darfur. How Long Is Never? Darfur – a Response features new work by Michael Bhim, Amy Evans, Jennifer Farmer, Carlo Gebler, …
Need some pointless Friday afternoon fun? Inspired by Stephen Reed Industrial Design’s rather fabulous Scrabble-tile benches, installed in the Bloomberg London offices, we did a little bit of research in to the game responsible for family rows nationwide. Did you know…? Scrabble was created a …
There’s a few articles around today about Jay Jopling’s latest venture: the £12 million White Cube, Mason’s Yard in St James’s, due to open at the end of this week. According to Adrian Searle in the Guardian the new building which stands on the site …
A particularly silly article entitled Is London the New New York? Or Is It the Other Way Around? appeared recently in the New York Sun. The main arguments for the immediate twinning of our two cities put forward by the hackette what wrote said article …
Any attempt to bring the noble sport of darts to the Olympics was probably set back eight years this morning through the publication of this Bloomberg report. BSkyB plans to charge viewers £9.95 to watch the two darts world champions — Andy Fordham of the …
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