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High Culture Makes Good Deterrent

This is either the greatest or the stupidest story so far this year: Metronet are going to start piping in classical music in to Tube stations in an effort to “deter yobs”. Their claim is that trials of the ‘system’ (which uses “CD technology” apparently) …

Commuting: fight or flight?

Londonist was drawn to an article in The Guardian today with the Ronseal-esque headline Want to feel less stress? Become a fighter pilot, not a commuter. Viewers of the BBC’s The Stress Test will be familiar with the measurement of cortisol as an indicator of …

The London Tomes

Just in time for the weekend, Londonist is proud to present the first episode of The London Tomes, our new London-based, animated series. We’re not going to say too much about it, we’ll let you make your own minds up. Suffice to say that there …