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The Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon have started today. We know this because the weather has suddenly turned shitty. Tennis does not have the greatest profile in the Londonist dungeon, and Wimbledon is generally treated with indifference (whereas football is loved and loathed in equal …

Around the world as experienced by the -ist network: Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, …

Ahead of Architecture Week the Beeb have compiled a shortlist of the public’s most hated London buildings, and it’s a slightly surprising list: The pre-fabricated, pre-cast concrete Centrepoint   The tower at Colliers Wood     The Swiss Re headquarters – better known as the …

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the ‘editorial we’? They take …

Does a sticker count as graffiti? Dunno, but it’s a Banksy, so we’ll make an exception. (Yes, we read all your comments berating us for giving Banksy further exposure – so we’re being deliberately contrary. Ya, boo, sucks to you!) This one’s down Bow Street, …

A man has been arrested after a security alert involving ‘white powder’ thrown in the the lobby of parliament. The Commons is open again now so we’ll try and get more from our Westminster insider today. People being arrested at airports update: 26-year-old Syed Hashmi …

Hands up if you like cyclists. According to the Independent today that’ll be quite a few of us. A 50% increase in bike journeys across the capital in just five years and despite all the arguments over funding for cycle lanes, Ken is hoping to …

Capital Radio and Help a London Child have come up with a cracking way of raising a few bob: the London Land Grab. Basically what you do is take a browse round their mashed-up Google map of the capital and choose a building to sponsor. …

Some Scottish M.P.s are finding a bitter taste in their mouths after pledging their support to England in the imminent World Cup. Widely believed to be the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Gordon Brown is undoubtedly a Scot through and through. Whilst Tony Blair hides his Scottishness well, …

Anyone who commutes into London via Liverpool Street knows the situation. You take the Circle via Tower Hill, to get off at Liverpool Street. But when the train gets to Aldgate, it often stops for up to 10 minutes, due to the sheer number of …