Here at Londonist we’ve never considered driving a bus around London to be an easy job. Navigating the capital on four wheels is bad enough without having to steer a large red dinosaur down streets designed to hold plague carts. Then there are the passengers …
You know Banksy, of course – our homegrown civil disobedience tutor and street art stencil impresario – and no doubt you’ve enjoyed his many small (and not-so-small) additions to the London street scene. However, it seems to us that his output has been tailing off …
How many football tops do you think a premiership football club will have got through by this point in the season? Go on, have a guess. Fifty? One hundred? More? Well, if you’re Arsenal, you’ve probably managed to get through over 200. How? Because, in …
Today’s Times carries a pretty lengthy article on London’s transport system and it’s influence on the bid for the 2012 Olympic games. Next month an IOC “evaluation commission” will be inspecting the capital’s transport systems looking for any improvements that have been made since last …
(Apologies for the punny headline, we think the Xmas cracker jokes we were subjected to over the weekend may have influenced our subconscious.) So the London Met wants to moor a prison ship on the Thames. The ship in question is HMP Weare, originally a …
Amongst all the talk of Robosapiens and Lego Hogwarts Castles, this year Londonist has also detected a bit of a board game revival going on. A few days ago the Guardian reported on the “boom for old-fashioned Christmas tests of mechanical and intellectual skill,” by …
Yesterday was day three of Capital FM’s ‘Live by the Book‘ torture regime, whereby two members of the public are placed in Perspex boxes in Covent Garden and are given daily tasks by Johnny Vaughan. And the news from yesterday is: Jess has eaten some …
Grand Theft Auto step aside because a leading video games developer has announced that they have secured the licence to create a driving game based on the London Black Cab. Now, before you all rush out to your local games shop demanding that they reserve …
Would you queue in a train station to download music? Londonist thinks it’s hard enough to queue in a train station to get train tickets, so we doubt we’d have the patience or the time to use one of the new ‘music download kiosks’ which …
Arsenal vs Tottenham is always good value, respective league standings don’t really count, the animosity level is always high and they tend to not pass without incident. This weekends game was no exception with Spurs narrowly being beaten by the Gunners 4 – 5. Arsenal …
We at the Londonist like video games. There, we’ve said it. A post-pub session of Mario Karts or Super Monkey Ball is nothing to be ashamed of, and even though we may have lost a fair percentage of our life to Championship Manager and the …
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