Estate agents, Tess Daly, and racists – sounds grim, doesn’t it? Yes, perhaps to reflect the unrelenting yuckiness of the weather (look, it’s almost April – please can we have a little, just a little sunshine?) the TV schedules are about s appetising as day-old …
Well, we’ve already had look at Wembley today, so we might as well take a peak at London’s other big, troubled development: Heathrow. Today’s Times includes an article which tells us what to expect from the airport’s new Terminal 5…if it ever gets finished. Apparently, …
We all know that you don’t put diesel in your tank if your car takes four star unleaded. But we’re still more than happy to fill our bodies full of shit, happily ignoring the damage we’re doing to our own internal engines. Obesity levels in …
After spending last week photographing dead presidents, we thought it only decent to turn our services to former British prime ministers. The Parliament Square Collection Dead monarchs have Westminster Abbey; prime ministers have Parliament Square. There’s six of the blighters here, with a seventh – …
Doesn’t look like they get the Evening Standard in Brazil. Despite Ian Blair’s denials in yesterday’s rag the Brazilian government are sending their own team to investigate the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. Not that the Met’s reputation is in tatters or anything – …
So everyone is safe, but four idiots are on the run after yesterday’s low rent sequel to the July 7th incident. Here’s how events seemed to unfold yesterday: 1225: Shepherd’s Bush Underground station on the Hammersmith and City line was evacuated after a man flees …
More American fretting we’re afraid. It seems that the troubled production of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta movie has hit another glitch. Should the release date be moved back from November the 5th (which was kind of the whole point as far as the idiots …
We love a good bit of technology here at Londonist even when we don’t quite know exactly how it works… iPods for example. How do you get so many tracks into such a small white box and then get so many small white boxes attached …
The BBC have today “revolutionised” their weather forecasts. No, they’re not going to start getting it right, obviously; they’ve changed the graphics of the forecasts. Out go the lovely cheerful simple maps, and in come “realistic 3-D landscapes” that can be zoomed in and out, …
You’ve got to hand it to Prince Charles, as soon as he makes a gaff it isn’t long before he shows the UK that he still has his finger on the pulse and reconnects with us, his subjects. Today it was announced that he and …
It’s a bit tricky to figure out what to say about Nathan Barley, the new Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker sitcom which aired for the first time tonight on Channel 4. For a start, if you write for a London-based weblog, it’s not entirely obvious which would …
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