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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