Notes From The City
Playing a gig as a solo musician can be quite a strange experience. Rocking up to a dingy pub on your own with just a guitar for company can be at once isolating and liberating – you may miss out on the friendly banter of …
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Fancy Dress Racism Dilemma For Tory Councillor
Maybe because it is Friday afternoon and we swtiched off the hard working part of our brains (the Captain’s Log for this particular Londonista has been showing “Offline” since Wednesday lunch time) but we thought we would share this WTF gem with you all as …
Beowulf, MP for the Geats
Who likes a good Anglo-Saxon helmet more than Londonist is a question we had no answer to… until now. It turns out that the one thing that MPs love more than preventing “foreigners” from “stealing our benefits” is tearing around the House of Commons in …
“I may be in trouble for saying this…”
Boris is at it again. This time four gaffes in just a few hours at the Tory party conference. Gaffe one! “If I was in charge I would get rid of Jamie Oliver and tell people to eat what they like… Mothers have been driven …
Aguileras Just Wanna Have Fun (In Public)
Christina Aguilera has had sex! Oh, hang on, apparently there’s a bit more to this story. Christina Aguilera has had sex in a public place…in London! They may have been married for almost a year now, but pop singer Christina Aguilera said that she and …
Architecture Week: Next Two Days
London Architecture Biennale and Architecture Week got off to a fine if sweaty start this weekend. We’d particularly recommend ‘Transit’, an Iain Sinclair-narrated short film by Emily Richardson, in catacombs beneath Smithfield Market – spooky, thought provoking and surprisingly deserted when we visited. Here’s our …
Random Graffito Of The Week
Disused pub chalk boards are always a boon for comedic scallywaggery. We spotted this one down Bayham Street, Camden. Boris Johnson later denied all knowledge.
Bungling Boris Comes A Cropper
Everyone’s favourite stereotypical Tory, Boris Johnson, has fallen off his bike. The Henley-on-Thames MP was sent flying whilst trying to avoid a gaggle of tourists at a crossing near the Palace of Westminster. He was treated for a badly sprained wrist at St. Thomas’ Hospital, …
Political Personals
As one Londonista said the other day, “we can’t ignore it!” – Valentine’s Day is here, and love is in the air, even here in Westminster. Many people find power sexy. Others claim that politics is “showbusiness for ugly people” (why else would I be …
“I’m On The Bike!”
Is the site of somebody cycling while talking on their mobile phone a common site in the capital? Londonist can’t remember having ever seen anyone even attempting such an audacious feat, but apparently it’s so much of a problem that the Tories are tabling an …
Sex And The City
(Well, we had to use that headline eventually) It seems Londonist just can’t avoid sex today. The BBC has been telling us what a hotbed of raunchy activity Hyde Park was in the Sixties (“In 1962, 61 cases of prostitution, 181 of indecent behaviour and …
