As you get older and you read more Naomi Klein books the whole commercialisation of Christmas thing seems to get more and more prominent (as opposed to when you’re a kid and it’s just the presents that matter…we’re completely over that whole present thing now…we …
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 …
Liverpudlians might have a reputation for moaning that the world hates them, but they can’t hold a candle to Londoners when it comes to complaining about travel. Complaints about commuting, a road block on the M1, or the possibility of a rail strike over Christmas …
We like it when London’s more snooty establishment go a bit populist so we were glad to read that Christie’s is aiming itself at the upper echelons of the geek community with its massive auction of “entertainment memorabilia” next month. Of all the catalogue highlights, …
The Londonist is yet to purchase Greg Dyke’s “revealing memoir”: Greg Dyke: inside story, but it’s one of those books we may put on our Christmas list. As everyone knows Dyke was booted out of his director general’s chair at the BBC this year after …
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 …
It’s a long time since we had any global warming panic (not counting the marketing campaign behind The Day After Tomorrow of course). So Londonist was pleased to see this report (PDF File), released today, which claims that “London could face summers as hot as …
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