If you’re born and bred in Chelsea and increasingly pissed off at the newly arrived Russian tycoon splashing you with his SUV when you pop back to visit your parents as he pulls into his newly converted gated apartment complex (that used to be your …
The riots in France couldn’t happen here in London, right? Our society is far more integrated and recognising of other cultures – isn’t it? Well, so the news commentators keep saying. But when it comes down to it, many of us are dangerously ignorant of …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Tomorrow’s Tower Blocks: the Dana Centre Here’s a strange thought. Many Londoners can recall a time, …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us at LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week More Chocology at the Royal Institution Event of the Week, clearly, should be Londonist’s First Birthday …
There seems something oddly obscene about ITV’s decision to make a programme about the public’s favourite images of death, destruction, mayhem, murder, pain, suffering, and general shittiness (ITV 50: The Shot That Shook The World, Tue 9.45pm ITV1). So, which is your favourite picture of …
George Romero’s back and he brought some old friends with him. Land of the Dead is finally released in the UK after a ridiculously long wait compared to our American cousins. Londonist already reviewed the thing last month, but now the big boys have turned …
Londonist has been showing relativists around London so we missed the latest news on the terrorists… Thank the gods for Jon Snow: Well amazing scenes in West London. In a way we’ve entered a new media age let alone a new age of capturing people …
It’s tall and ungainly, of uncertain worth, and will look slightly out of place in its surroundings. No, we’re not talking about the signing of Peter Crouch to augment the Liverpool forward line-up, but the nascent Vauxhall Tower, which has just been given the green …
Look, before you all start complaining again, we don’t have a thing against Croydon. It’s just that it seems to exude tales of filth and depravity like a Jarvis-Cocker-themed stag night. This week’s entry in the swollen annals of Croydon malaise concerns one Trent Budgen, …
Here it is then: the first Olympic bid post of the week, and it’s not a very positive one either. It seems that if London does win the 2012 bid on Wednesday then the organisers will face not one, but two legal challenges from businesses …
If Londonist ever had to get itself a ‘board of directors’ a few names would immediately spring to mind: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd…and Lee Jackson. Lee is the author of three historical thrillers as well as a huge, illustrated book on Victorian London. He is …
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