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Video Vigilante

With the violent death of 24-year-old bank manager, Saad Mohiuddin, still fresh in everyone’s minds, the Independent have been out on patrol with the man who caught the whole thing on video camera. Ian Wilder is 58-years-old accountant who has been out on the streets …

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

If you’ve got access to BBC4, don’t forget that the serialisation of Patrick Hamilton’s Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky trilogy starts tomorrow at 9:50pm. Hamilton’s book is one of those definitive London novels (Nick Hornby once said of it: “it’s as if they’ve finally …

Two Best London Hotels?

Two London hotels, one old and one brand new, have made it in to the new Conde Nast “hot list” of international locations. The ‘old’ hotel is the Cadogan off Sloane Street, infamous for being the location where Oscar Wilde was arrested (room 118 if …

£££ Txt Wnnr

When it comes to news sources we’re quite happy to leave CNN to the Americans (because it’s mostly adverts for golfing hotels in Dubai), Reuters to the broadsheets and rifling through dustbins to the tabloids. Here at Londonist we go to a trusted news source …

Channel 4′s Demolition

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 …