There’s a serious leak in Haringey, and the unfortunate residents have had to cope with unamusing oozings of a fecal persuasion. The shit has most inconveniently hit the fan at a local funeral stationary supplier. A trade that requires tact and delicacy isn’t helped by …
Mama Mouse: [To her 9 children] My darling mouslings, it has taken us a while to settle into our new home in Newham General Hospital, after a bitterly cold and cruel winter. But we are comfortable and prosperous now, and I think we all deserve …
As the guidebooks are fond of reminding us, it’s the ‘tallest freestanding stone column in the world’. But the Monument is much lower down the list of tourist attractions than, say, Nelson’s Column. Frankly, it’s the sort of C-list memorial that might appear on Celebrity …
There have been some pretty big acts of protest in the past. The self immolation of Thích Quảng Đức as protest against the treatment of Buddhists by the authoritarian administration governing South Vietnam; the lone protester who tried to stop four advancing tanks in the …
This Day In London’s History 1976: A series of IRA bombs explode in London’s West End. During the early hours of 29th January 1976, 12 bombs exploded in the area around Oxford Street, injuring the driver of a passing taxi and starting several small fires. …
Today is Australia Day. Tonight there will be a huge amount of drunken Australians celebrating in this city. Here are three stereotypes about Australians living in London: 1. They see their homeland as some kind of utopia. If home is so perfect, then why are …
Once your work gets picked as a Photo of the Day we like to keep an eye on you. Sometimes this means averting our eyes from drunken snapshots of you at an office party, but normally it means you treat us to great photo after …
Naming babies after where they were conceived or where they born is slightly embarrassing. If the former, then it’s rather too much information to present strangers with your child Pizza Hut Fire Escape. If it’s the latter then there is the risk of bringing up …
This Day In London’s History 1788: Lord Byron born at 16 Holles Street, just north of Oxford Street. Born George Gordon Byron, but inheriting the family title at the age of 10, Byron was an extravagant, eccentric and hugely prolific writer. However he was just …
This Day In London’s History 1759: The British Museum in Bloomsbury opens its doors to the public for the first time. Some may feel that the British Museum these days is little more than a massive boast, bragging about how many cool things the British …
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