Flying’s not been getting good press lately what with us all worrying about our carbon footprints and the end of the world being nigh. With summer holiday season approaching, then, and with us having quashed our environmental guilt and said, ‘Dammit, I deserve my cheap, …
New York and London have always had a bit of rivalry going on, about who’s best. In recent times, London seems to have got the edge – New York’s Mayor, for example, expressed worries that London was moving ahead as the world’s financial centre. And …
The US Embassy is up for sale. At somewhere between 130,000 and 280,000 square feet depending on which reports you read, the place would make a lovely Mayfair residence for a large family (space for about 750 people, at the last count). And all this …
This week we’d like to congratulate the -ist network’s Mother Hen, Gothamist’s Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine’s Wired Rave Award. If that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that’s right, the -ist network …
Chelsea and Arsenal have both won it in the past, but this year’s London Senior Cup, premier competition of the London Football Association, will be fought over by Bromley FC and Tooting & Mitcham United who, as it happens, are also staging the final at …
Today TFL launch their latest spurious health promotion/congestion tackling campaign “Why not walk it” urging London motorists to leave the car at home and take Shanks’ pony to their destination. Londonist sees straight through this ruse. We all know that motorists just won’t. It’s well …
With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news …
This is our favourite assault on police story ever. The headline: Woman accused of spraying cop with breast milk The details: It is alleged she was detained for trying to steal shoes from Lizard, in Hill Street, Richmond. After being arrested for theft she sprayed …
British Olympic chiefs will not be swayed by anyone (their own sports experts) or anything (the facts) in their conviction that we will come fourth in the medal table in 2012. What’s one lower down than bronze? oh yeah. Fuck all. “We’re totally committed to …
Housing in London is very expensive indeed. In fact it’s so expensive indeed that Londonist HQ is imaginary and we all live in Derby. However, thank your lucky charms that you aren’t a lowly wannabe Argentinian farmer. He may not have to pay the congestion …
Things have moved on since 1977 when Spielberg got the world in a tiz over close encounters of the third kind. These days we can go all the way up to five: First kind: A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects Second kind: …
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