Ken Livingstone has been given a breezeblock for winning the Green Party‘s ‘Dodgy Planning’ awards This isn’t awarded for just any dodgy planning (putting your trousers on before your pants for instance, would not get you the prize), it’s only urban planning and development that …
Maybe you don’t have any children. Maybe you do. Do they like football? Maybe. If they do, then there will be no ‘maybes’ about it, they are going to be begging you to send them to the David Beckham Soccer Academy , which had its …
Weirdly enough there’s two articles in today’s papers about how Britain is “in the grip” of an ice skating craze. In the Independent Jonathan Brown and Lucy Phillips are reporting on the “ice phenomenon” by conjuring up images from literary masterpieces such as Tolstoy’s Anna …
Good grief. The Duke of Edinburgh is to seal a time capsule filled with secret items at Greenwich’s Royal Observatory. Now we have to worry about him insulting future generations when they open the bloody thing to find exactly what he shoved in there. We …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Tomorrow’s Tower Blocks: the Dana Centre Here’s a strange thought. Many Londoners can recall a time, …
It all comes down to what you expect to see out of a London hotel bedroom window. In the red corner, we have Ken Livingstone and his insatiable lust for all things over 30 floors. In the blue corner we have the local authorities and …
Foot Locker. JJB. JD Sports. You could be anywhere on this sceptred isle, be it Balham or Bognor, and your experience of buying running shoes will be the same. You will be pushed and pulled as you compete for scarce space against a multitude of …
As promised we’ve been hunting around to try and find you a few things to do this Halloween, and we thought we’d better try and cover all the ‘spooky’ London walks you’ve got to choose from. London Walks has a good reputation as one of …
- Ken’s inernational climate change meeting kicks off today. 300 metric tons of carbon-dioxide permits were bought on the mayor’s behalf so travel to the meeting doesn’t damage the environment further. – Police have spoken to a potential witness in the Sally Anne Bowman murder. …
Remember Rentaghost? That’s right, the kids show from the early ‘80s, in which spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools were available for hire, and proceeded to act very camply. Perhaps electronic artist/architect/handyman Usman Haque has a 21st Century version of the service in mind, …
Well, here we go again. Londonist’s not-inconsiderable powers of augur and haruspex (plus a machine-like publicity campaign) have alerted us to the imminent release of JK Rowling’s latest grimoire. Stores will be open long past the witching hour tonight as millions of children and special …
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