Martin Creed: he turned the lights on and off and won the Turner Prize in 2001. He crumpled a sheet of plain A4 paper into a ball and exhibited it as Work No. 88. He filmed people being sick in a pristine, anonymous white room …
At the turn of the millennium, the ‘beast’ of Bexley was born, a headline created by the London press. It was an inaccuracy, a contradiction and a conundrum. A large, seemingly exotic cat fuelled the imagination of the public, evaded the pursuing police, and stirred …
There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also …
In the UK, public inquiries are used as a way of scrutinising our systems and making sure they work as they ought to. The tragic death of Victoria Climbié rightly triggered an inquiry which concluded that had timely action been taken on any one of …
Yesterday’s penis-hacker-offer has had the old boy reattached! Hooray! The inquest into Diana’s death has gone tits up Locals have stopped plans to remodel Sloane Square The Mayor has been on Arab TV asking the Palestinians to give Alan Johnson back. They will surely listen …
Today TFL launch their latest spurious health promotion/congestion tackling campaign “Why not walk it” urging London motorists to leave the car at home and take Shanks’ pony to their destination. Londonist sees straight through this ruse. We all know that motorists just won’t. It’s well …
Red Ken is at it again. Usually so full of love for all things PC that you’d think he would change his name to Percy Clemmons, Ken’s latest ‘morally outraged’ hissy fit comes as somewhat of a surprise. “Ken Livingstone launched a vitriolic tirade against …
Anyone get caught out by an April Fool’s gag? London’s local newspapers sure tried their best. First up, ‘Pervy pigeons pepped up by pills’ A plan to give pigeons pills to prevent them breeding backfired when the birds were instead fed an aphrodisiac. The mix-up …
We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite …
Fancy entering Spring in weird and strange mode? Looking for a different way to spend the glorious Easter weekend? Like the idea of a browsing round a live tattooing, exploring unseen parts of the London Bridge vaults and witnessing a live video installation unroll on …
The BBC informs us that police will now be available round the clock in west London. To tell you the truth, we had assumed they already were available round the clock. But apparently not. That explains why there’s that answering machine message we keep getting …
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