The ‘noughties’ were meant to be the caring decade but we’re buggered if we noticed it at Londonist, especially with a whip-cracking editor having no sympathy for fingers bleeding through too much typing. It seems, however, that the softly softly approach is now de rigeur. …
Today’s Guardian (no online equivalent, sorry) reported on a recent Mori poll undertaken for the Greater London Authority, that reinforces what we as Londoners apparently already knew, everything is going just swell, London is now officially ace, and it’s all down to Ken Livingstone, the …
Don’t forget that tomorrow is the Russian Winter Festival in Traflagar Square. Ken will be there around 12:30 for the opening ceremony (along with the Deputy Mayor of Moscow!) and for entertainment there’s the brilliantly namesd Alexandrov Red Army Choir; the equally-brilliantly named Faizi Gaskarov …
It seems a bit harsh, but yesterday the huge Christmas tree which has stood proudly in Trafalgar Square for the past couple of weeks was shredded and made into compost. As part of the effort to make this tree the ‘greenest’ in London’s history (energy …
Maybe we overhyped it. Maybe we just built up our (and your) expectations too much. Maybe we were just foolish to expect too much from Southwark council. Whatever the reason, it seems the South Bank Snow Slide outside Tate Modern has failed to live up …
Disastrous news for those of us you who use blank taxi receipts to give yourselves the occasional bonus, as The Evening Standard reports that Mayor Ken wants to halt blank taxi receipts. Instead, Kuddly Ken wants to install machines in every cab which will print …
In a move to cut down on Cash Machine related crime (such as shoulder surfing) Lambeth Council has proposed the creation of “safe zones“, a painted area around the machine that only the card user is allowed in. But Ken says no. More specifically “Labour …
Londonist is a bit Christmas Tree obsessed this year. In the past few weeks we’ve had three tree posts. Only one of those was about the Trafalgar Square tree, but it seems we missed something: it runs on hydrogen. According to the London Asembly site …
If there’s one thing the newspapers like to report on it’s other newspapers, so the news that the Evening Standard might be ‘dummy launching’ its free ES Lite paper this week has brought the broadsheets out, knives at the ready. “There is some pessimism among …
Tonight at 6 o clock, a Norwegian Spruce about 23 metres high, donated by the people of Norway will be illuminated in Trafalgar Square. The tree, presented by the Mayor of Oslo, Per Ditlev-Simonsen, is a bit of thank you gift for the hand we …
We didn’t see anything about philosophical enlightenment in the Mayor’s Transport Strategy for London document so we can only assume that the Thought Of The Day policy currently being implemented at Oval station is the work of plucky, existentially-minded staff. The ‘thoughts’ which are currently …
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