This Londonista popped to Terminal 5 at Heathrow – due to open in a month’s time – and live-blogged about it: It’s 7.35am on a grey Saturday morning, and I’m on the piccadilly line. Sure – there are better things to do with my time, …
At Londonist we are often chuffed when Londoners ‘do quite well’. At least initially. Like most Brits, we love The Underdog – right up until that moment when they become A Loser. Then we slag them off vitriolically, sit arms-crossed in a huff on our …
The fifth in our series of interviews with potential candidates for next year’s Mayoral election. Previously: Victoria Borwick (Tory), Andrew Boff (Tory) and Warwick Lightfoot (Tory), Sian Berry (Green). Today: Liberal Democrat candidate Fiyaz Mughal. He’s competing with fellow LDs Brian Paddick and Chamali Fernando …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 14. Poll-itics Well, I did a quick little poll this week amongst group of 26 professional people aged 20 – 35. Just to ask them what …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 13. Rehabilitation? This week Team Nice quizzed Liberal Democrat Councillor Simon Carter of Lewisham Borough Council. The topic ran to antisocial behaviour and whether our solutions …
What we now know about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes- * The stories that Jean Charles acted suspiciously by running away from the police and jumping the barriers at Stockwell tube are untrue. * He was not wearing a bulky jacket or a …
Maybe because it is Friday afternoon and we swtiched off the hard working part of our brains (the Captain’s Log for this particular Londonista has been showing “Offline” since Wednesday lunch time) but we thought we would share this WTF gem with you all as …
Tonight in Richmond, Portillo is bringing democracy to the people as he hosts an event modelled on the American primary in which three candidates will compete to become the Conservative Party’s parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park. The candidates will compete “in an X Factor-style contest”. …
Crazy story in The Independent today: A former British National Party election candidate who stockpiled explosive chemicals for use in an anticipated civil war in Britain boasted that he would shoot Tony Blair… Police raided the home of Robert Cottage, who held “strong views on …
The government’s plans to bring in high tech ID cards may have to go back to the drawing board after a Guardian investigation showed that biometric data could be electronically attacked and cloned with a £174 microchip reader. We say may have to back to …
There is a lot to like about the Liberal Democrats – the little yellow bird they have as their emblem, the nice old man they have running the show – but today they’ve churned out a survey with the usefulness of a Cornish nationalist in …
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