Londonist would like to say ‘Happy Fourth Birthday’ to Brain Haw, Parliament Square’s resident protestor. Brian has been protesting against UK and US government policy towards Iraq since 2 June 2001, and this makes his the longst running one-man protest in modern history. In the …
London’s regular birds are sharing their air space with a slightly more spectacular feathered friend after a bald eagle made its escape from a bird sanctuary. The eagle, named Alaska, is actually Canadian by birth but we expect will be brow beaten by local pigeons …
Londonist enjoyed a rare lunch-break away from the whip-cracking editors today. There we were, skipping gaily through the shopping hordes, with the iPod Shuffle on full whack, when the front page headline of The Evening Stupid caught our eyes and made us stop dead, causing …
Rob: (To be sung to the tune of Elvis Costello’s ‘Watching the Detectives’) “Blogging the election. Blogging the election. Looks like we’re blogging the election” Well our computers might not be quite as fancy as the BBC’s but here we are. The coffee pot is …
It looks like the turnout for today’s General Election is going to be up on the last one. We suspect that interest has been piqued by the erratic polls that suggest this might be a close one where votes matter more. Of course we’re not …
Well it’s finally here. Hoards of people shuffling around mindlessly outside while a nervous minority wait to see which way they’re going to go… no, not the election. We’ve got more important things on our minds here. Like the fact that the first trailer for …
The BBC is reporting that the British consulate in New York has been damaged following an explosion that happened around 7.30am our time (3.30am over there). Bomb fragments have been found. No one seems to have been injured, but windows have been shattered according to …
You might know the Marquis of Granby pub – it’s in Westminster and is very pleasant indeed, although full of civil servants from the Department of Endless Filing and Running Around (DEFRA). In tribute to its political setting, it has been tracking the election with …
Have you been watching The Apprentice on BBC2? We have…in fact we might even go as far to say we’re slightly addicted to it. When we heard they were going to import the Donald Trump-fronted version over from the States, and plonk Amstrad supremo Alan …
We at the Londonist like nothing better than a political rebel. No, hang on. We at the Londonist like quite a lot of things better than a political rebel, but in the world of politics we love them. And of course there’s no better rebel …
Just when you thought the whole George Galloway saga couldn’t get any worse better…along comes his wife! This weekend ‘Gorgeous George’ was handed a piece of paper by a representative of the Sunday Times informing him that his wife would be announcing her intention of …
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