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Monkey Magic

Congratulations to Londonist’s breakfast show presenter of choice Christian O’Connell of XFM. He and his show picked up three awards at the Sony Radio Academy Awards last night: Breakfast Show Of The Year, The Entertainment Award (presented by Shakin’ Stevens – pictured), and The Competition …

Weekend Football Preview

England’s national football team are rubbish. Do we care? Do we heck! It’s back to our domestic leagues and cup this weekend, which means we can quickly forget about fancy Dutch ideas of positional flexibility, ball possession, tactical awareness etc and instead we can concentrate …

Weekend Football Roundup

Mido. Sounds like a continental supermarket chain. Or maybe Sweden’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. But no, Mido is neither of things. In fact, Mido is Spurs’ new Egyptian striker (The Sun headline writers must be rubbing their hands with glee…), a player …

Monopoly Update

The Times reports today that Monopoly is to be updated “to reflect the changing face fo the capital”, and frankly we’re outraged. Gone are King’s Cross, Marylebone, Paddington and Fenchurch Street and in are Gatwick Heathrow, London City and Stansted airports. Bor-ring! Even worse, the …

Furious George

Slandered and now vindicated, MP George Galloway, is coming to London to stick it to the pro-war New-Labourites. Mustachioed Galloway is set to contest the seat of Bethnal Green, the home of Pro-War Labour MP Oona King, in Londons East end. Thrown out of the …