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Londonist Gets Personal

If you’re especially awake and eagle-eyed this morning then you may have noticed a brand new addition to the Londonist front page. (If you’re still asleep and a bit blurry-eyed may we direct your attention to the right-hand side of the screen, just below the …

The Olympic Effect

What Paula Radcliffe paused to do in the streets of London, bid organisers are doing to the locals. It’s possibly the most contrived headline of the week, but it does head a pretty decent article on the damaging effects a London-based 2012 Olympics could have …

Do You Like Me? Check Yes, No, or Friendship

Londonist went speed dating. You are probably asking, “Really?” Yes, really, I went speed dating. This “review” of sorts originally began with a slightly more imaginative introduction but the reality is that there is nothing more compelling than just saying it point blank As London …

Alcohol-Fuelled Street Fouling

The Government published a document today laying out advice for local authorities and police on how to stop alcohol-fuelled street fouling as part of its larger drive to clean up the environment. Although urinating or vomiting in public isn’t actually illegal there are a multitude …

Do You Want Fries With That…Baby?

Londonist has to admit to never having been speed dating, but increasingly it seems like we’re the only ones. The press has been full of stories all year about young women are outnumbering blokes in the capital right now (638,000 women to just 586,000 men …

“I’m On The Bike!”

Is the site of somebody cycling while talking on their mobile phone a common site in the capital? Londonist can’t remember having ever seen anyone even attempting such an audacious feat, but apparently it’s so much of a problem that the Tories are tabling an …

London: City of Amore

Take that Paris. In your face Venice. Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough Rome. Because London is the new city of luuurve. According to a survey by Yahoo Personals, we go on more dates than anyone else in the UK; …