Sports bars. The English just can’t do sports bars. Absoulutely rubbish at them. They first sprung up on these shores in the eighties, when a few likely lads watched ‘Cheers’, noticed that american football had become popular and resolved to open bars with a few …
One of Ken’s pet projects went live today. Wildweb is beign touted as a searchable database of “140 of London’s most important wildlife sites” and includes maps and aerial photographs as well as details of the habitats and species to be found. It’s all part …
Do you regularly cycle around London? If you do then part of your reason for choosing a two-wheeled method of transportation may very well have something to do with the environment. Good for you…but don’t you wish that sometimes your trusty pedal-powered steed had a …
Celebrities and “leading figures from the worlds of culture, tourism and the media” are flocking to support the plans to install a beach by the London Eye this summer, the Standard gushes. Of course, you heard it here first, but now that the likes of …
George Galloway squared up to Labour’s Oona King in Bethnal Green this week in the first of what is bound to be a bruising series of clashes between the New Labour candidate and George’s Respect Party. When asked about the problem of drugs in the …
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 …
We’re well used to seeing a variety of amusing badges (buttons for our American readers) displayed on our fellow tube passengers (usually on the bags of goth teenagers), but until now none of them have been officially sanctioned by London Underground. Now we learn that …
Today’s Times is warning that a hosepipe ban looks likely for the South East this summer, thanks to winter temperatures, which“have been 1.5C warmer than usual…combined with the driest winter recorded in the region for 130 years”. Yes, apparently this has been a dry winter. …
Another bit of London lore has become a thing of the past. Staff at Clapham Junction station, the BBC reports, are to stop honouring the secret shortcut password. The password has long been a piece of useful local knowledge for Claphamites heading home after dark. …
Tonight is the night that Mayor Ken faces his public over at Goldsmith’s College. People’s Question Time is a twice-a-year event where Londoners are given the chance to quiz the Mayor and the rest of the London Assembly on the ‘Big Issues Of The Day’. …
It’s no understatement to say that weather has been featuring prominently in the news lately, and as with most natural disasters you sympathise with the victims, are in awe of the power of nature in general, and then the “what if that happened where I …
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