A week after opening for the Queen, St Pancras International is finally ready for the likes of us. The station has been restored beyond its former glory. Britain's answer to Central Station is ready for business. Everyone knows by now that the sumptious Euston Road frontage to the station was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. But what else in London did the Great Scott design? Time to dust off our old 'Stalks' series,......

Recently, Robert Mugabe hasn't done much to live up to his British knighthood. He did provide us with one of our very favourite websites (loving the clipart animated flag, keep up the good work) but even that can't make up for the 3000% inflation, the beatings, the collapse of agriculture, land confiscation and mass starvation. In short, the man is a gigantic knob. Of course, Robert likes to blame all these things (the dire......

We loved a lot of things about Children of Men (Michael Caine mostly), but also appreciated the little touches that were just futuristic enough to let us know that this wasn't the here and now. Yet it was certainly a London firmly grounded in today's culture and politics as seen through things like the LCD screened bus advertising and TV spots. Just glimpsed long enough these little snippets of media helped to create the......

We're still trying to digest yesterday's warning that al-Qaida wants to have a pop at the UK with a nuclear weapon: British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday. The announcement, from an officially organised Foreign Office counter-terrorism briefing for the media, was the latest in a series of bleak assessments by senior officials and ministers about the terrorist threat facing Britain. UK......

It's a pity that the Foreign Office refuses to comment on leaked documents because we would have loved to hear them try and spin this one: The letter to Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull said British foreign policy was a "key driver" behind recruitment by extremist Muslim groups. The letter in question was written in May 2004 by the FO's most senior official and sets out the very clear warning that it was our......

This coming Thursday, August 11, at 1 pm, there will be a public protest outside of the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate near Hyde Park. While there are many reasons why one might want to yell at the government of the Islamic Republic, this particular protest is in response to the execution of 18-year-old Ayaz Marhoni and 16-year-old Mahmoud Asgari. Their crime was having consensual sex with each other. Berfore the public hanging last......

Folks, it may be weeks until Open House London 2005, but you need to be reminded now. Remember last year, when you had to queue for five hours, shooting dirty looks at all those people who had booked in advance? (This is assuming you went to one of the popular buildings, not a recycling plant in Dagenham or something.) Now you can be one of those smug people who booked in advance. Yes -......

It was only a few days ago that London's top copper was warning about the heightened threat to the capital by terrorist groups so we figured that as long as we played our part (looking for abandoned bags and dodgy looking characters hanging about garages or flats) then the police would likewise up their own vigilance levels. So riddle us this. How did three men dressed in bright superhero costumes manage to drive up......