Obama Fined For Unpaid Congestion Charge
Supremo billed for £120. It never rains but it pours.
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Monday news. Lots of interesting things heading this way, you know.
Weekend Round-Up
So the world didn’t end. Here’s what has been happening around the capital in the meantime…
Theatre Review: Obama On My Mind @ Hen and Chickens Theatre
Obama On My Mind plays the Hen and Chickens Theatre until 21 March “We’ve had so much press interest in this,” giggled someone front of house at last night’s press view of Obama On My Mind at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury. You …
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Lebedev Junior has been interrogating chatting to ES staff. “Hands off our hacker!”, Bojo tells Obama. It’s not just Londonist what loves London: Pascal Chimbonda has taken a pay cut to get back here. Gordon Brown has been grasping at oratorical straws. How Croydon Took …
Call for Photos: Your Obama Party Pics
Celebrating the US presidential inauguration in London tomorrow? We want your photos to post on Wednesday. Just upload ‘em to Flickr, send ‘em to our Flickr pool and make sure to tag ‘em Londonist and, oh let’s see … Obama. Thanks! Photo by Simon-K via …
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The Met’s racial diversity manager has withdrawn her discrimination claim against the force. And resigned. Mr. Obama has been inaugurated in situ…at Madame Tussauds. Kids bugging you? Why not shut them in a swimming pool locker? Four people were injured this morning when a bus …
Obama Coming to London. Again.
This winter isn’t going to be much fun. Cold, gloomy skies and economic misery is enough to make the cheeriest of us come down with a dose of SAD. What we need right now is hope… so start looking forward to 2 April because Barack …
Give Bees A Chance
The humble bumble been hasn’t been having a good time of it lately. This year saw the worst honey crop on record and the poor blighters are dropping dead and no-one really knows why. Soon there won’t be any left to fight terrorists or investigate …
Obamania To Hit London Tomorrow
Barack Obama comes to our fair city on Friday, hot-footing it from Paris and Berlin – where he today delivered a speech extolling the quest for “impossible hope”. He leaves on Saturday. Whether or not you are wrapped up in his soaring rhetoric; if you …
Week Around the -Ists
Photo by Phillyist’s Matt Johnson, SkyscraperSunset.com, December 19, 2007. Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale. Gothamist marveled at the city’s new NYC-branded condom campaign – especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun fact: Gothamist turned …
