The Adjudication Panel for England were told today by Ken’s solicitor, Tony Child, that when the mayor compared Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold to a concentration camp guard he damged his own reputation but not that of his office. Child also compared Ken to the …
Londonist was in Mile End last Thursday, attending Alan Rusbridger’s inaugral lecture as the new Hugo Young Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London. The subject of The Guardian editor’s lecture, organised by a group of history postgraduate students, was ‘Weblogs vs Journalism: The …
There’s a good little article in one of today’s papers about a couple of members of the Metropolitan Police who took a trip to Olympia yesterday to view the striptease act which forms the centrepiece of the Erotica 2005 convention. Of course Inspector Chris Bedwell …
A couple of weeks ago we ran a couple of stories about BBC’s London news reporter Matt Barbet and what seemed to be a growing legion of ‘Barbettes’ – Barbet groupies who were watching Matt on the telly for more than his incisive reporting skills. …
That headline may sound like the title of one of Richard Desmond‘s more ‘downmarket’ publications, but we’re actually talking about his impending free London paper: the London-i, which seems to have been ‘impending’ for quite a while now. To be fair Des’ does have a …
The BBC is today reporting that the London Eye is no longer under imminent danger. However, this may prove to be weasel words if we look at the detail of what has transpired. In short, the South Bank Centre has said that it is not …
Londonist was pleased to see yet another smooth and faultless launch of an -ist site, this time in Austin Texas, a city we initially heard about due to it being the setting for Richard Linklaters engrossing low-fi indie debut, Slacker, but is now firmly on …
This article by Max Carlish, from today’s Guardian, is one of the most obnoxious pieces of ‘journalism’ we have ever had the misfortune to read. If it’s worth reading at all then it is only to understand what the rot at the very heart of …
It’s good to see that the whole Ken Livingstone furore hasn’t deterred the Evening Standard from it’s everyday crusade towards pioneering journalism…as these thermal images of Buckingham Palace clearly show. Why are we looking at thermal images of Buckingham Palace, you may ask. Well, it’s …
Londonist has just received its first Christmas present of the year: Jon Ronson’s Blog. Ronson is a firm Londonist favourite. Yes his books and his TV programmes are all very good and interesting. But we love him simply because he’s just such a weird bloke. …
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