It’s been a week when the new combined download/sales singles chart proved that people download as much crap as they buy at their local Woolworths, the White Stripes have gone all Deep Purple on helium, Thom Yorke previewed some new material on a march as …
South London is shaping up to be an extremely dangerous place to be – first there was the gunplay in Brixton, and now there are reports that a big cat has attacked a man in Sydenham. The Beast is described as being the size of …
We want! We want! We want! London is often at its prettiest under snow – that way you can’t see the grime, BNP stickers and occasional axe wound. But now we don’t need to freeze to see London as it should be thanks to Eboy! …
Have you visited English Cut.com yet? It’s the blog of Thomas Mahon, “one of the youngest tailors on Savile Row” and it’s actually pretty good. Like most blogs worth reading, Thomas doesn’t just give us trivial, daily details (“Wednesday: got my cat neutered, had a …
Four hundred years from now the descendants of Ken Livingstone may finally make peace with the Daily Mail group but we doubt it. Perhaps the Standard and its grubby siblings will by then have moved on to point out their hatred of Martians (beaming down …
Chelsea striker, Eidur Gudjohnsen was
Streatham is known for a lot of things…we just can’t think any of them right now. But in the late Seventies it was known best as the home of Cynthia Payne and her ‘celebrity brothel’. Cynthia (who, very helpfully, managed to incorpoate the word ‘sin’into …
Stuck for something to do tonight? Fancy scaring the bejesus out of yourself? Then you could do worse than buying yourself a ticket for Invasion of the Body Snatchers at the NFT tonight. The NFT is showing the original, 1956 version of the film as …
Take that Paris. In your face Venice. Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough Rome. Because London is the new city of luuurve. According to a survey by Yahoo Personals, we go on more dates than anyone else in the UK; …
Ken Livingstone’s campaign to have just about everything happen in London continued this week when he submitted a revised bid for London to host the start of the 2007 Tour de France. Ken was at the dinner to celebrate the Entente Cordiale bike race between …
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