Battersea bridge is closed and all roads that lead to the river seem to be a polluted gridlock at present. Fear not, the Londonist Tech are at hand with a few gadgets that might help those sick of the traffic. Firstly smash your piggy bank. …
George Romero’s back and he brought some old friends with him. Land of the Dead is finally released in the UK after a ridiculously long wait compared to our American cousins. Londonist already reviewed the thing last month, but now the big boys have turned …
It seems that HG Wells might have been right after all. His invading aliens, given a whole planet of rolling cornfields, lush tropics, arid deserts and blasted tundra to pick from, chose to land in the London hinterland, not far from Woking. Now, Sam Jordison …
If you missed the NorthSouthEastWest photographic exhibition at the Science Museum earlier this year then you should definitely try and catch it in Trafalgar Square this week. The project, which is currently touring the world, brings togther some of the world’s top photographers to “to …
On 21st June, the ratcheted-rental-threatened London Eye shames its greedy landlords (the South Bank Centre) by hosting a special event to raise awareness of Third World Debt and its attendant trade issues. Flight 5065 aims to promote Cafedirect‘s Fairtrade range and to raise awareness of …
So Gordon Brown delivered a budget today, a particularly well attended budget, and one of the shortest on record clocking in at just 50 minutes. Any pre-election budget usually has one eye on the electorate and this was no exception being referred to as a …
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 …
If you’re thinking of traveling to Australia next summer you could be one of the first passengers on the new gargantuan Airbus A380. It seems that London is set to be one of the first cities to play host to the world’s largest passenger aircraft …
According to the TUC tomorrow is payday for Londoners, due to the fact that we do so much unpaid overtime. “Friday is the first day that the average long hours employee would get paid if they did all their unpaid overtime at the start of …
It’s a bit tricky to figure out what to say about Nathan Barley, the new Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker sitcom which aired for the first time tonight on Channel 4. For a start, if you write for a London-based weblog, it’s not entirely obvious which would …
So it looks like “London” is a four-letter word in a certain rival European capital. The mayor of Paris has begun a campaign against “La Londonisation“, his term for the rubber-stamp commoditising of the High Street, destruction of small businesses, and the driving out of …
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