It was revealed yesterday that the senior officer in charge on the day Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead is to be promoted. Commander Cressida Dick (no…too easy) is currently in control of the gun cruime unit Operation Trident, and was in charge of …
The imminent Carnival reminded us that we don’t get to explore the streets of west London as often as we’d like. One person who certainly does, though, is Zef. The walls of Ladbroke Grove are festooned with his stencilwork, particularly the gun logo, shown on …
If you’re fed up of looking at bus stops and seeing your bus will be here in a minute, only for it to show up in ten, then your problems could be solved. TFL are installing a new GPRS system on all buses to make …
Sony is pissed that someone managed to release an unfinished version of upcoming PSP game Gangs of London out into the wild: An internal beta of Gangs of London, a forthcoming spectacle of urban violence on the PSP, has been leaked onto BitTorrent sites across …
The blackouts in Soho yesterday hit more than 3,000 businesses. Energy comapny EDF are warning that sporadic power outages will likely continue into Friday in the area between Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus. Two men at the centre of the largest gun conversion racket ever …
A StreetWars competition is currently taking place in our city. We’ve sent one of our own, Alex, to take part . Here’s how he’s getting on…. The man in the white t-shirt pictured to the left is an assassin. He might be the assassin who’s …
Our favourite story of the week simply because it’s so freakin’ METAL: IRON MAIDEN singer and qualified pilot BRUCE DICKINSON airlifted 200 British citizens who had fled war torn Beirut, Lebanon back to the UK yesterday… The 47-year-old flew a Boeing 757 to Cyprus where …
Whilst driving through London’s banlieu on Sunday, an item on Radio Five Live caught Londonist’s attention. In between news from the test match and the awful opinions of that rank Scotsman Nicky Campbell, a cheerful broadcaster spoke of a three week contest taking place upon …
Another day another police over reaction: Armed police stormed a family’s home after their teenage son was spotted playing with a toy gun in his bedroom. An eye-witness had seen Olly Trimbos, 15, playing with a plastic BB gun and raised the alarm fearing it …
As we reported earlier, Parliament Square protestor Brian Haw has had his protest stripped down to just a couple of placards. Police turned up at 2:45am and removed most of his placards, and many of his possessions. Naturally, Londonist just had to go down to …
What we do is war! Jean Louis insisted during practice, and I passed that off as him just being French and dramatic and paranoid. But in a way, isn’t he right? We are waging war on perceptions of reality, with our physical Socratic method. We …
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