Neat nerd site for you. The world’s subway systems presented on the same scale. (We’ve pasted in SF, London, Paris and New York above, for comparison.) As well as a disingenuous means of mocking the French for their capital’s pea-sized hairy testicle of a network, …
There’s an interview with the brilliant Alan Bennett over in the Boston Globe newspaper. Of course they’re mainly talking about the huge success of Bennett’s The History Boys on Broadway right now, but right at the end of the article there’s a mention of Bennett’s …
The choicest cuts from our sister sites around the globe. Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don’t even front like they …
Neil Entwistle, whose wife and daughter were found shot to death in Boston last month, was arrested yesterday, in London, on murder charges. He will be extradited to the US. ‘Mainstream’ British Muslims will stage a peaceful gathering in Trafalgar Square tomorrow to protest against …
As the Met begin their “swift” probe of the weekend’s protests it turns out that the man who dressed up as a suicide bomber is in fact a convicted drug dealer who has been out of jail for less than a year. A British Airways …
It’s an age old trick: if things aren’t going right, blame the guy who’s not English. And in London, where we’re particularly bad at sorting out our transport sytsems it’s always those ‘foreign types’ who end up the worse for wear when somethig grinds to …
We’re on a bit of a meat mission today at Londonist. Although our ‘Londonist Loves’ post today was about the quality carnivorous collations of Bodeans, it’s a bit later now, and so maybe we’ve had a few pints and we’re hankering for something quick, cheap …
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