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There’s no denying it: Radio 4 is great. No, we don’t listen to the Archers (yet), and we’re not quite at the Book at Bedtime stage either, but we should all offer up a prayer of thanks to the BBC directors for organising their latest …

Is the site of somebody cycling while talking on their mobile phone a common site in the capital? Londonist can’t remember having ever seen anyone even attempting such an audacious feat, but apparently it’s so much of a problem that the Tories are tabling an …

Today’s Sun carries an exclusive interview with Father Christmas, who tells of his “torment” at being banned from stores on Oxford Street. “I take this as an insult to me and children everywhere.” Santa tells the paper from his “secret Lapland retreat”. “It breaks my …

The Evening Standard want you to vote for your London personality of the Year. Roman Abramovich won it last year (about the only thing he did win) for “injecting millions of pounds into Chelsea”. So it’s not exactly the most discerning of awards this one. …

“Carrying on with our ‘the future is here’ theme for today, may we point you in the direction of this report, which examines the possibility that the skies above London will soon be filled with flying cars (or ‘jetpods’ as they’re called). The report profiles …

If you need a break from all that US election coverage (or you just feel like diverting your thoughts away from the fact that GWB might have actually won again) then let us present you with some mindless consumerism news. The Hideout on Upper James …

Tonight is the opening night of Lindsay Anderson: A Personal Remembrance at the NFT. Malcolm McDowell’s tribute to the director is based partly on Anderson’s own writings, and received impressive reviews at the Edinburgh Festival earlier this year. During the tribute McDowell talks about his …