holidays

The chap behind all those neat little Google logos is in town giving the Beeb the chance to remind us just how much work goes into something that most of us take for granted as we type “dictator for life” or whatever into the search …

Think back to 1985. Margaret Thatcher was in power; there was no internet; uh, people had stupid hairstyles and wore legwarmers and stuff. And, up until October of that year, there was no such thing as Neighbours. Unthinkable, isn’t it? The residents of Erinsborough have …

It is, as we’re sure you’ve noticed, summer. You can tell it’s summer, as the weather is (reasonably) decent, workmates are coming back tanned from holidays and we are smack bang in the middle of a cracking Ashes series. But watch out, the first sign …

We are writing to you again to give you an update on young Charles just before his annual report card is sent home. Under the circumstances we thought it best to let you know what’s been going on this year. Firstly there is the matter …

A Midweek Music News already? It seems like only yesterday we posted the albums round-up. That’s the trouble with these Bank Holidays; nice as they are, they do screw up the body clock somewhat. It doesn’t help when you’re writing about bands called The Eighteenth …

Back in January, we reported on a story which claimed that “Almost half of the UK population form their opinions about crime and the police from television dramas”. In fact, a survey of 2500 people revelaed that 34% thought London was the UK’s most dangerous …

London is officially the “most diverse city ever” according to today’s Guardian. The article, part of the paper’s special What is Britain report, profiles the capital’s non-indigenous communities (e.g. Poles in Hammersmith, West Africans in Southwark, Congolese in Tottenham, Koreans in New Malden, Portugese in …

The shock of being back at work after the torpor of the Christmas holidays is a little bit like a cold that won’t quite go away, you can’t quite shift that nagging horrible feeling that’s stopping you feeling 100 per cent. To blast away the …

As you’ve probably noticed, Londonist has been winding down in the lead up to the Christmas holidays over the past week. Obviously we won’t be posting anything tomorrow, Boxing Day or the following Bank holidays, but we’ll be back with a ‘limited service’ (like the …

Not literally, you understand, and actually not really that figuratively either, it’s just that the excitable folks at the British Airports Authority (who actually have a really good online photo library thing going on) are upset at plans by the Strategic Rail Authority to change …