The young: they scare us. Or the ones who want Jeremy Clarkson or Surallun to be Mayor (or PM) do, anyway. According to a survey of 16-24 year olds for the Roundhouse, 16% of respondents chose one of the shouty TV slebs as their preferred …
Geraldine McCaughrean’s sequel to Peter Pan looks set to hit the big screen. Has anyone managed to pull off a decent Peter Pan on film yet? Not to worry – sequels never ever suck. With that in mind here are five pitches that we’d like …
Stand back London – Ken’s powers are about to be upgraded: More powers are to be given to the mayor of London in a bill flagged in the Queen’s speech. The Greater London Authority (GLA) Bill aims to bolster the mayor’s leadership in order to …
Like small children, tourists and big dogs, cars don’t really belong in London. Sure, they have their uses but they do take up a lot of space, are noisy and tend to move very slowly along the streets. creating bottlenecks at crucial points in the …
Jeremy Clarkson is easy to dislike – we’ve used his snarling image for just about every congestion charge/traffic related post on Londonist – but he’s also funny from time to time. Top Gear is hard to stomach unless you live in the fantasy land of …
Any Londonist readers who dream of becoming Conservative Mayor of London, you need to get your skates on. The deadline for ‘Tory Mayor Idol’ is this Friday. As the Times article says, so far there are only “two worthy but obscure” candidates who Ken would …
This week – CGI cars populate the earth (Cars), stylist sci-fi thriller set in Paris 2054 (Renaissance) and a computer game becomes deadly (Stay Alive) First up, Cars from Pixar, makers of Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Toy Story etc. etc. However, where Pixar’s previous efforts …
London 2026: We remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, we remember The Road Warrior. The man we called “Jeremy”. To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered …
Londonist was very pleased to hear that the long-running feud between Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson had reached such a level that Grosvenor House was requestiing an exclusion zone between the two at the British Book Awards at the end of next month. After all, …
Foremost there was Spinal Tap – the good natured and fucking hilarious jab at rock’s pomp and general ridiculousness that probably inspired as many bands as it took the piss out of. Better yet it ensured that anything of value was thereafter always turned up …
So Edinburgh has decided to reject plans for its own congestion charge. We at Londonist would like to offer sanctuary right here to the third of Edinburgh residents (Edinburghists? Edinburgers?) who voted for the congestion charge. We would also like to send those Londoners who …
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