Rumour has it that the SAS use the Northern Line to break new recruits. Put ‘em down the holes in High Barnet and Edgware then pick up the pieces in Morden at the end of the day. They rebuild them as unflinching fighting machines because …
If for you Christmas isn’t really that special and you just end up pigging out all day before watching television bored (hang on! isn’t that everyone?), then maybe you should consider forgoing the Turkey and Nut Roast this year to help Crisis. Crisis is a …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. If you haven’t seen the blog, or spotted them in the Guardian, Post Secret’s conceit is simple – send a postcard airing a single piece …
A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 15. Bull Inn Court Where? Long, sloping alley dropping from Maiden Lane down to Strand. What? Named after, unsurprisingly, the Bull Inn tavern, which once stood at the foot of the hill. A narrow cutting between …
Tim ‘The Tube Man’ O’Toole has said that he doesn’t believe Abu Hamza’s son posed a threat while working as a labourer on the Underground. Ex-IRA spy Kevin Fulton has been arrested in London in connection with two murders in Northern Ireland. The Telegraph delves …
We just received an email asking for help in locating a missing person from the Haringey Association for Independent Living (HAIL) Limited: Enclosed is a picture of Mr George Tanyi. Mr Tanyi left his home in Tottenham on the morning of 4th July. He left …
Can you still use a church or place of worship as a sanctuary from the law? Like in the Iron Maiden song or The Hunchback of Notre Dame? We were wondering about it this morning as we read about Father Malcolm Hunter who has taken …
It’s Christmas time, in case you hadn’t noticed, when we’re all supposed to feel charity towards our fellow human beings. So why do only one in ten Londoners say they feel “guilt” when they see a homeless person? 10%?! The other 90% just, what, walk …
Millionnaire banker Paul Deighton has accepted the £300,000 a year position of chief executive officer for Locog – the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Seb Coe assured Radio 4 listeners this morning that he “wasn’t doing it for the money”. Record high Christmas …
After the incredible revelations that Woody Allen just loves “London’s famously dreary weather and its residents’ ever-expressive slang” we thought it was about time we got in touch with Woody (we’re very close you know) and get the full list of things he really really …
A London plumber has been charged under the Terrorism Act after being found in posession of “three Uzis, 3,000 rounds of ammunition, three silencers and nine magazines.” The Eminem karaoke murderer, Christopher Duncan, has been sentenced to life for the murder of 26-year-old law student …
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