City suits may not actually be feeling like dancing today following today’s predictions about City job losses if this recession they keep threatening us with starts to bite. Now we are sure that you don’t turn to Londonist for our financial acuity and business acumen (gawd ‘elp you if you do), so we are not going to endeavour to offer any sage words on the economic status quo. Bulls and bears, stocks and shares, they’re......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 18. Social Revolution? When I was a kid, television was dominated by the game show, like The Price Is Right or Bulls Eye. I think the appeal was through empathy of that elated feeling of winning something great… Bully’s special prize. Then our society changed. Reality television took over, we became more interested in how......

Tessa Jowell, like any avid gambler, feverishly hedged her bets with the House of Lords on Wednesday in efforts to push through her plans for a series of ‘supercasinos’ in Britain. Peers voted 123-120 against the measure that evening, despite Jowell’s last-ditch attempts at swaying on-the-fence Lords in her favour. One wonders what sort of things Jowell was promising the Lords she was trying to influence -- extra chips at the blackjack tables? A......

Tottenham Hotspur FC wants to create a 'cutting edge' £30 million training centre in Bulls Cross, Enfield. The problem? The 56-acres of land they're looking at developing is believed to be home to a protected rare species of bat called the barbastelle. (The barbastelle's other claim to fame is that it's one of the ugliest type of bat, but let's not hold that against them eh?) No communtiy of barbastelle's has ever been seen......