Today’s Sun carries an exclusive interview with Father Christmas, who tells of his “torment” at being banned from stores on Oxford Street. “I take this as an insult to me and children everywhere.” Santa tells the paper from his “secret Lapland retreat”. “It breaks my …
Londonist was delighted to see that The GLA have been out and about interviewing 11 to 16 year olds on their “attitudes towards London”. The survey, organised in the lead up to International Children’s Day on Saturday, interviewed a total of 1,072 London residents aged …
Television’s Kirsty Allsopp, property transition guru and ambassador for wearers of strangely coloured tights everywhere, has landed herself a job at Tate Britain. Initial reports that Kirsty had fallen on hard times and had been employed by the gallery as a security guard are, it …
Londonist got its first listen of the Band Aid 20 record this morning when the XFM breakfast show played Do They Know It’sChristmas? as we arose from our overly-central-heated slumber. We were not helped in our efforts to make the transition from asleep to awake …
Looking at the timetable of London-based events for next week, there’s one that seems to just jump out at us: The benefits of female promiscuity at the Imperial College on 17 November. With a title like that how can Londonist resist? For just £8 you …
London looks set to receive a new evening paper soon, and a free one at that. Porn magnate and owner of Express Newspapers Richard Desmond recently stepped up his long gestating plans to launch a free paper to rival both the Metro and the Evening …
At what age do you think Maurice Saatchi sold his soul to the devil? After all this is a man who, not content with being the mastermind behind of one of the country’s largest advertising agencies, decided that he’d take on the joint-chairmanship of the …
It’s bonfire night tomorrow: time to scare the pets, burn the traitor, eat sugar coated fruit on a stick and partake in some organised arson. Yay! Below we present our rough guide to bonfire nights across the capital: Clapham Common: One of the biggest, with …
Time was when a visit by royalty to the official opening of a school would be accompanied by rows of white-shirted kids, smiling keenly and waving their union flags. Not any more. The Queen’s school-opening in Lambeth last week was met by placard-waving protesters and …
It doesn’t matter how tatty or run-down a London landmark is, and it doesn’t matter that no-one has been to see it for the past five years, there only has to be a whisper from a local council that it is going to close that …
Picture the scene. There you are, a happy father with your “life-partner” and two pre-school children. You manage to get a mortgage on a terraced house in NW5, which the estate agents call “Gospel Oak borders” but your neighbours call Kentish Town. It’s not quite …
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