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Happy Slapping Hits London

So you’re standing there on the Tube, seething with rage after having changed trains three times due to a Job-like trial of passenger action, faulty trains and general incompetence on the part of London Underground Limited, and having just suffered a twelve minute intra-tunnel endurance …

Camden Gets Its Indie Back

While some would say that Camden never lost the indie rock vibe, it would be hard to deny that the goth kids and the nu-metal tweenies (yes, you there with the Staind shirt) have run rampant there for the last couple of years, and that …

Standard In Trouble

Newspaper sales figures for the end of 2004 are out and it’s critical news for The Standard (if you listen very carefully you can hear us chuckling and rubbing our hands in glee). The Standard’s circulation went down by more than 6% from November. That’s …

Metro’s Exclusive Tube Deal Scrapped

A bit of breaking news for you here: Ken Livingstone has apparently ended the exclusive distribution deal that the Metro newspaper has on the Underground. Does this mean that Richard Desmond’s long-rumoured, free Metro rival will be hitting the streets soon? And, more importantly, will …

Planks With Planks

Londonist is never one to advocate violence, and road rage stopped being interesting about three years ago. But when we read that two men in Tooting started “beating each other with planks” earlier this week, we have to admit our interest was peaked. Were you …

Friday Film News

Londonist hates Andrew Lloyd-Webber for what he did to the Phantom of The Opera story, so we were going to go on about that for a bit this week. But then we remembered that Pete Bradshaw would be reviewing the film version, so we thought …

Regent Street Xmas Lights

They promised us a “major celebrity” for the switching on of the Regent Street Christmas lights this year. In the past they’ve given us such ‘celebrities’ as Daniel Bedingfield and Russel Watson, so you could forgive us for being a tad sceptical. But, in one …