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Russian Winter Festival

The only bad thing about Christmas? It’s just too damn short. Once Boxing Day’s over you’ve only got the stress and ultimate anti-climax that is New Year to look forward to…and then it’s back to work. We need more food, more alcohol, more singing and …

The Losing of Camden 274

As a bus driver in London there are many professional responsibilities one has to take on: customer relations, passenger safety, road etiquette and, erm…knowing the bus route. If a driver fails in just one of these areas then it can quickly lead to chaos, or …

Furious George

Slandered and now vindicated, MP George Galloway, is coming to London to stick it to the pro-war New-Labourites. Mustachioed Galloway is set to contest the seat of Bethnal Green, the home of Pro-War Labour MP Oona King, in Londons East end. Thrown out of the …

Fares Please

Once every few months you can be fairly sure that a news item will be released on how much fare-dodgers are “costing” the transport system. Today the Liberal Democrats claim that nonpayers are taking 150m free trips a year. Londonist has never had much faith …

It’s A Sure-Fire Hit

Just as people of a certain age can always remember where they were when they heard that Kennedy had been shot (as comedian Steven Wright put it, ‘I remember where I was, I was on the sixth floor of a book depository….’) so Londonist imagines …