Today’s Times offers us a ‘fascinating’ insight into the lives of the “Chelsea set” via the story of Roland Straub and Cynthia Taylor. Roland is the president of the Optimus Corporation and owns porperties in London and Zug in Switzerland. He met Cynthia while on …
When current London tourist attraction, the royal family (as seen on cheap mugs, inside nazi armbands and frequently on holiday) realised that Charles getting hitched to Camilla behind the closed doors of Windsor Castle meant they’d have to open the very same doors to commoners, …
As of today you can vote for what you think is the country’s most “vile building” in order to get it torn down by Channel 4. It’s all part of 4′s new Demolition programme, which is very much like the BBC’s successful Restoration series only …
It’s been a while since we’ve checked up on the latest gadget news but, what do you know, as soon as we do we find that Londoners are being targeted by hi-tech refuse spies. According to Engagdet “In an experiment designed to track trash collection, …
Even while on holiday we can’t escape the pull of London. After a nice enough flight with Mr Branson’s airline we juggled our bags to the kerb of San Francisco International airport and waited for a taxi. Imagine our surprise when we were greeted by …
Christmas is a holiday of two halves. One half is sat in front of the telly, eating the leftover Quality Streets and playing Trivial Pursuit with your gran. The other half is regretful office parties, drinking all the spirits under the sink you wouldn’t normally …
Londonist always wonders what people mean when they come back from holiday saying “..oh and the people were ever so friendly”. What did they do? Buy you a pint, give you advice on your love life and offer to let you sleep on their sofa …
Little Britain Goes Terrestrial In the middle of a particularly long first (and I’m sure last) date, last Friday I discovered that the only thing that me and date had in common was a liking of Little Britain. So we were able to spend the …
Londoners, it has to be said, have a love-hate relationship with black-cab drivers. Normally, the extent of the love and/or hate is directly correlated to the weather conditions and whether you are in London or some other capital city. For example, find yourself in London …
Firstly, may we apologise for the God-awful pun, we’re still trying to come up with a suitably witty and catchy title for our new, weekly TV review (any ideas please let us know in the comments section). Mecca Ibrahim is the author of One …
The supermarkets might go mad for pumpkins rather than fireworks; the TV programmes might be flooded with American imports mentioning Halloween rather than bonfire night; but in this dark quarter of South-East London, where electricity is still viewed with suspicion, if not seen as outright …
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