Homeless charity St Mungos are calling on the government to provide medical care to people living on the streets “who now have a life expectancy less than the general population during the Victorian era.” The three men who kicked 30-year-old Christopher Yates to death in …
All the places featured in this Stalk are now mapped on Platial. Once in a blue Monday, Editro gives us, the grovelling unpaid writers of Londonist, permission to leave our desks and get some fresh air. But only if we get up to some …
What’s with The Big Issue? The other week I saw a seller giving a guy his mobile number. I thought you had to be homeless to sell it. Not that I want to, though –Tom Actually, you don’t have to be homeless to hawk The …
Oh dear, Craig, you’re out on your arse! The Londonist dungeon rang with shouts of glee as your eviction was announced, you wobbly-lipped sex pest. Managing a pitiful 4.1% of the vote, it really is a case of “Whatever, minger”. Sod off back to East …
Croydon has taken some flak over the years, and Londonist doesn’t want to fall into the hackneyed ways of lesser commentators by adding to that already sizeable bucket of mockery. But when objective evidence is uncovered that justifies all the piss-taking… Well, maybe just this …
Leicester Square tube station has been the victim of a “major branding takeover” by Apple who are hell-bent on making sure everyone is aware of the new youth targeted iPod Shuffle. Apple has created what they’re calling the “iPod Zone” by purchasing pretty much every …
It must be great to be on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Evaluation Commission, travelling around the world having entire cities queuing up to kiss your arse, you’d probably never see a homeless person the entire time, not to mention the kind of buffets on …
One of our first ever posts on Londonist was a piece about street drinkers in Islington and the fact that Islington council was busy installing specially constructed benches for their local alcoholic contingent. Now it seems that Twickenham is set to follow suit with Richmond …
A couple of weeks ago we reported on the plans to use the Millennium Dome as a homeless shelter over the Christmas period. Now it’s difficult not to be cynical about anything which has something to do with the Dome, but this at least seemed …
Two pictures of Jesus in one day? You can tell it’s getting towards Christmas can’t you. Admittedly this isn’t something you’d send to your gran on a card for the festive season, not unless she’s really up for rallying “against the commercialisation of Christmas” It’s …
Safeway supermarket at Crystal Palace has given 1,400 cans of soup to the nearby Westow Street branch of the Salvation Army, the biggest donation that the local “Sally” has received since the European Union dumped part of its cheese mountain on it in 1989. Clearly …
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